Why Rhythmbox instead of Banshee?

[Adriano Varoli Piazza]

On 11/4/06, Luis <lemsx1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> For me Rhythmbox NEVER works. It always crashes at random files for no
> particular reason.

You _did_ file bugs about it, I presume. I haven't had crashes with
Rhythmbox since at least Dapper - 1, they were known and fixed. It
rarely crashes on files "at random" or, for that matter, at all,
unless the underlying implementation of gstreamer is hosed as well. I
currently have a library of at least 3600 music files (yeah, talk
about dick-size wars (no, I'm not going to obfuscate words I use, feel
free to take offence or action, anyone)) in various formats: mp3, ogg,
wma, musepack, monkey audio, all handled through gstreamer plugins. If
rhythmbox is still crashing for you, I have two recommendations: One,
do (if you haven't) a clean Edgy install. Two, launch the program from
the command line and see on which folder it chokes, or empty your
library and add a folder (or group of them) at a time. Try and
reproduce the problem. And then, search on launchpad or gnome bugzilla
for a similar problem (hell, even on #ubuntu or #rhythmbox). Chances
are
a) you'll find me there (I do sometimes show up and give some support,
I'm Adriano (original, huh?), and can speak English, Español or
Italiano
b) someone else already experienced your problem and has an easy
solution. Like, let's say, installing -bad and -ugly gstreamer plugins
from universe/multiverse repositories.

Cheers.

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