is totem confusing, or is it just me?

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Steve Alexander">

> >In that case, use Totem. 
> 
> Totem has a "sound" menu, but I can't see an option to play a sound there.
> I guess I could use the "movie" menu to play sound files.  Not exactly
> intuitive, though.

Totem is designed as a movie player. If you open a sound file with it (ie.
double-click on a file to open it in Totem), it will play it. For various
reasons, Bastien decided to really drive it towards movie-playing above
general multimedia playing, thus the Movie menu (which includes a lot of
very non-File-menu stuff) instead of a File menu.

If you double-clicked on an audio file and it played in Totem, you probably
wouldn't notice this. :-)

(Also, with a music player like Rhythmbox or Muine, it's meant to just queue
the file and play it immediately. I don't know why this didn't work for
you.)

- Jeff

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