Default Music Player in Ubuntu 12.04

[Dean Henrichsmeyer]

On 11/07/2011 10:49 PM, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 09:17 +1030, Jason Warner wrote:
>> Hi All -
>>
>> During the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit we discussed moving from Banshee back to Rhythmbox as the default music player for Ubuntu 12.04. No definitive decision has been taken yet (major default apps tend to have many integration points and broader discussions are needed before we can make that decision, such as the Thunderbird decision in Oneiric) as we need to kick off the further discussion. 
>>
>> It was an interesting discussion overall and I wanted to reach out to the broader Ubuntu community to get further feedback. So, feel free to reply with your thoughts in this thread.
>>
>> For context, here are some of the discussion points. 
>>
>> Areas of concern in Banshee were stability, start-up time, the overall resource intensive nature of the application and how responsive an upstream they were to Ubuntu specific needs. It was noted that Banshee is by far the better UI, but many people experienced significant issues in stability thus making it feel less usable. 
> 
> I was not aware of general stability problems - of course, it works just
> fine for me :).

I'm relatively new, so I can't speak to any of the areas of concern
other than stability. For a music player, I can deal with a
less-than-perfect UI for a robust and stable player. In my experience,
Banshee isn't stable. The UI is nice and polished and the integration
with Ubuntu is well done but it randomly crashes while idle and also the
backend becomes unresponsive. You can click around the UI but it won't
actually play anything.

I have no preference for another application. I used Banshee because it
was the default in Ubuntu. I can just +1 the stability concerns.

-Dean



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