Why Rhythmbox instead of Banshee?

[Luis]

On 11/4/06, Adriano Varoli Piazza <moranar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

It took me a long time of debugging, getting sources from upstream,
and reading code. After a few days/weeks, I tried Beep Media Player.
Then that was messed up and I went back to old good XMMS.

I never really open bugs because I didn't know whether is a problem
with my gstreamer setup or Rhythmbox (totem gstreamer crashes while
totem-xine just works).

I have no problems with Banshee, which also uses gstreamer. I simply
uninstall every other player with the exception of XMMS, just in case
I ever need to fall back...

Thanks for the offer of help anyway. I appreciate it. I do the same
thing with other projects that I know really good. It's just that now
I have the mentality that a computer should just work and I'm trying
to cut the time I spend troubleshooting stuff in Linux. I just use
what works. That's why I have Ubuntu Edgy installed ;-) as opposed to
Debian Sid/Etch, SuSE 10 or Fedora Core 6.

Again, thanks for the help. The original thread was about whether it
makes sense to have Rhythmbox in the live CD instead of simply Banshee
taking over that functionality as well as SoundJuicer and others...
Banshee rocks!

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Luis Mondesi
*NIX Guru

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discernimiento, porque el tenerla como ganancia es mejor que tener la
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mismo" (Prov 3:13-14).