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

[Pascual Lucero]

Just a comment ... it is GNOME-Mplayer, rather than GNOME-Mediaplayer. :)

I don't know about the playlist thing in GNOME-Mplayer (I have experienced
it, but I don't know why it happens), but the other bugs can be attributed
to Mplayer and not precisely the frontend.

Certainly VLC works better "right out of the box", but it would be nice if
the Lubuntu Team (or specifically the artwork team) can help changing the
orange status icon of VLC and choose another one that integrates better
with the desktop.

I honestly don't know about other lightweight alternatives to GNOME-Mplayer
(and actually Mplayer in general), but certainly this needs to be
discussed.

And I agree that the audio player is fine. Maybe there are better ones, but
we have a good one, it is reliable and it plays basically every audio file.
However, it needs to be updated in the repos, I always have to get the
latest version from the Webupd8 PPA.







On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Maps Backward <maps.backward at gmail.com>wrote:

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