[ubuntu-uk] Banshee (& music players generally)

[Ronnie Tucker]

>> I have now tried Rhythmbox, Amarok, and Banshee, and Banshee does seem
>> to be the easiest to use --- you can compile a music library rather than
>> being pushed straight into playlists (as with Amarok), and you can
>> easily select to play albums, from the albums pane. But I would like to
>> know how to prevent it from seeking to find cover art online -- this
>> doesn't seem to have a disabling option in Preferences. I would also
>> like to know how to change the albums panel from icons to plain listing.
>> The intention of the designers seems to have been to acquire cover art
>> for every album you have, and to display it as mini-icons next to the
>> albums in the albums pane, but I don't want this feature at all.
>>     
> I can't for the life of think why you wouldn't want the album art but 
> have you tried exaile? It's very similar to banshee but if you do want 
> the album art it's a process you need to kick off manually
>
> Dan
>   
I used to use Amarok (in my KDE3.x days) but now use Rhythmbox. 
Rhythmbox has a plugin which fetches the album art from the internet, 
simply disable that plugin and voila! No album art.  :)

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