New music player proposal

[Leszek Lesner]

Am Dienstag, 14. August 2012, 14:13:09 schrieb Ron Johnson:
> Aqualung is a pretty lightweight GTK-and-directories music player that
> I've liked for years.  It says that it works with JACK, but I can't
> verify the claim.
> http://aqualung.factorial.hu/

We Aqualung once before in Lubuntu. 
I don't see the sense in switching to it again. 

Honestly I don't know why we should switch the music player at all. 
Audacious is good enough and lightweight enough and offers lots of features and 
is actively maintained.

> 
> On 08/14/2012 01:57 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
> > All:
> > 
> > Personally, I like Audacious, and have been using it (specially
> > installed) in whatever Ubuntu 'flavor' I have used.
> > 
> > What some people see as 'advanced' or 'many features' is to others
> > useless complication.
> > 
> > I do not (personally) like the players that organize your music by
> > various criteria (such as genre), or by how often you play it.
> > 
> > I have my music collection organized in a directory structure, and just
> > want to easily access that directory structure to choose what I play.
> > Audacious does this very well, and doesn't impose its own structure on
> > your music collection.
> > 
> > I /don't/ want to have to import my entire collection, and then have to
> > categorize everything according to the particular player's criteria.
> > 
> > Audacious is simple, unobtrusive, and works well.
> > 
> > Better yet, it is one of the /few/ players that reliably works with the
> > Jack audio connection kit, which I must use in doing my MIDI music
> > creations.
> > 
> > Of course, if others agree with you, and change the player that is
> > automatically installed, I will continue to install (and use) Audacious
> > on my own.
> > 
> > - Aere
> > 
> > On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 14:22 +0200, Timothé Beemster wrote:
> >> Hi lads,
> >> 
> >> I've been using Lubuntu for some time now, but the first thing I
> >> always do after installing Lubuntu, is get rid of Audacious, and
> >> install GMPC (Gnome Music Player Client, it does not depend on Gnome
> >> (any more)).
> >> GMPC is fully featured, and praised for it's low resource usage, also
> >> on playlists with over a million songs.
> >> GMPC is using a plugin system, so not all functionality is obligatory,
> >> if you don't use it, just turn it off!
> >> 
> >> I would like to propose to get rid of Audacious, and make GMPC the
> >> default music player, as it is a more fully featured music player than
> >> Audacious, in my opinion.
> >> 
> >> Some facts about GMPC:
> >>  - Website: www.gmpclient.org <http://www.gmpclient.org>
> >>  - In continuous development since 2003
> >>  - Depends on the great Music Player Daemon
> >>  - Automatic album art search, lyrics search, artist info.
> >>  - Multimedia keys
> >>  - Dynamic playlists (searches similar music based on Last.FM searches)
> >>  - Jamendo & Magnatune music browser
> >>  - Album View
> >>  - Metadata Browser
> >> 
> >> + a lot more.
> >> 
> >> I would love to hear your opinions, and hope you are with me here!
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> 
> >> Timothy Beemster
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > Sincerely,
> > Aere