Rhythmbox & Sound Juicer : some thoughts about the extracting audio CD functionality in Ubuntu & suggestions to improve it

[Evan]

All three make sense to me.

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 2:00 PM, thibaut bethune <thibaut.bethune at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'd like to discuss the way Ubuntu deals with the "extracting audio CD"
> task
>
>  - Ubuntu 7.10 and before : inserting an audio CD launchs Sound Juicer
>  (according to the nome-volume-properties GUI)
>  - Ubuntu 8.04 hardy alpha 6 : inserting an audio CD launchs Rhythmbox.
>
>  I'm in favor of Rhythmbox for performing that task.
>
>  BUT, the Ubuntu Hardu alpha 6 situation could be improved in 3 ways :
>
>  1°) Sound Juicer should be removed from Hardy since Rhythmbox is the
>  default system application to extract music from CD - no need for
>  cluttering Applications menu.
>  See Bug #202593 in sound-juicer (Ubuntu) on Launchpad
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sound-juicer/+bug/202593
>
>  2°) When inserting and audio CD, Rhythmbox should be launched with the
>  GUI that shows the "Extract" button.
>  Let me explain. Actually :
>  - Rhythmbox has a contextual toolbar, which means that the "Extract"
>  button is only displayed when you select the CD name in the "Source"
>  panel.
>  - But Rhythmbox is always launched with "Library" selected in the
>  "Source" panel (even when an audio CD is inserted)
>  - Therefore, when an audio CD is inserted, Ubuntu launches Rhythmbox
>  with "Library" selected in the "Source" panel, and no "Extract" button
>  visible by the user : the user doesn't know how to rip his audio CD.
>  My suggestion is that, when an audio CD is inserted, Rhythmbox should
>  be launched with current audio CD selected in the "Source" panel, to
>  make the contextual toolbar in Rhythmbox matching the task the user
>  expects.
>
>  3°) While ripping an audio CD, you can close Rhythmbox without be
>  advertised that Rhythmbox is performing a task. User should be warned
>  that closing Rhythmbox now will stop the current task.
>  Maybe a confirmation dialog box could say : "You are about to close
>  Rhythmbox while Rhythmbox is ripping a CD. Closing Rhythmbox will stop
>  the current CD ripping"
>
> Thank you
>
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