New music player proposal? I think the main problem concerns the media player rather than the audio player!!

Maps Backward maps.backward at gmail.com
Tue Aug 14 22:32:29 UTC 2012


Agree
On Aug 14, 2012 3:24 PM, "Sandor Ortegon" <sandortegon at myopera.com> wrote:

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> Hello,
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> My opinion:
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> Honestly, I think Audacious is lightweight and good enough for everyone as
> an* audio player*. I don't need we have to change it in Lubuntu. Besides,
> it is actively mantained and actually, it is pretty good. I have tried
> several players on Linux (from the allegedly lightweight to the most
> advanced ones) and Audacious for me is the best in terms of keeping a
> balance between being light, have enough features, being constantly updated
> and relatively bug free. Besides, developers answer questions relatively
> quickly in the forums and several new features were suggested by users in
> the forums, so they are actually read and not ignored.
>
> Of course, it would be good to ensure the latest version (3.3.1) is in the
> repositories, because for some reason many users use very old versions of
> this program (2,x, even 1.x or 3.1) and the program has improved a lot.
>
> Besides, everyone can install another player easily if they wish; from
> very lightweight ones from the most advanced like clementine, banshee,
> amarok and others.
>
> *HOWEVER, I think the topic of Media Player has to be revisited*: I
> believe people were in a rush at the time of including programs form Ubuntu
> repositories for 12.04, because of the LTS. For example, most users
> suffered from a buggy Abiword and most of us had to remove it (or ignore
> it). And the GNOME-Mediaplayer that was included in 12.04 was very buggy.
> The only way it worked for me was to compile it myself from source and
> remove the version from the repository,
>
> - Several problems with playback and video with subtitles appeared in
> GNOME-Mediaplayer. The only way I could get rid of these problems was to
> install PulseAudio; somehow Mplayer had problems with ALSA.  A persistent
> problem that I couldn't solve, not even installing from source, is the
> following: When playing a playlist, the player not always plays
> automatically the next entry in the playlist once the current entry is
> finished. I had to click myself manually in order to do that.
>
> - GNOME-Mediaplayer is a very good program, but it is important to check
> which version is going to be in the repository and ensure (in the build)
> that it would be relatively bug free. I shouldn't need to install
> pulseaudio just to ensure I won't have problems playing video files.
>
> - I think VLC could be included as an alternative in the default CD image.
> Most people install VLC anyway and it supports almost every media filetype.
>
> Thanks for your attention
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