But Exaile (<a href="http://www.exaile.org/">http://www.exaile.org/</a>) is written in Python and is a bit slow (though I still use it). On the other hand, it's probably faster than AmaroK...<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 12/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joshua Gardner</b> <<a href="mailto:mellowcellofellow@gmail.com">mellowcellofellow@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It's not that bad. No Gnome depends. Do sudo dpkg -i /path/to/exaile.deb then sudo aptitude fix exaile and you are good to go.<div><span class="e" id="q_10f8c6a3c6c7b8a1_1"><br><br>-Josh<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 12/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ronnie Whisler
</b> <<a href="mailto:mrwislr@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mrwislr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Exaile! looks nice but holy dependencies......
<br><br><br><br>On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:46:06 -0500<br>Matt Price <<a href="mailto:matt.price@utoronto.ca" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">matt.price@utoronto.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>> Hey folks,<br>><br>> On Sat, 2006-16-12 at 10:37 -0700, Joshua Gardner wrote:
<br>> > There's also Exaile!, which isn't in the repositories but there are<br>> > Ubuntu .deb packages available on there website. (I don't have a<br>> > link right now. If I did I would give it to you. A couple seconds on
<br>> > <a href="http://google.com/linux" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">google.com/linux</a> found it for me.) Exaile! is a GTK application<br>> > similar to AmaroK. It's lightweight in RAM and required libraries.
<br>> > Try it out.<br>
> ><br>> > -Josh<br>> ><br>> > On 12/16/06, Ronnie Whisler <<a href="mailto:mrwislr@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mrwislr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
<br>> > Use gmusicbrowser for you audio library playback program...
<br>> > its very<br>> > like and handles large libraries easily and very fast..<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:58:29 -0400<br>> > "Cody Somerville" <
<a href="mailto:cody.somerville@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">cody.somerville@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> > > A few tips/ideas for improving performance:
<br>> > ><br>> > > 1. You might want to look for an alternative to Amarok
<br>> > > as<br>> > it is<br>> > > very heavy and requires kde libs.<br>><br>> this is definitely the main concern for my plan -- I agree it's very<br>> heavy. however I haven't found anything else that's as user-friendly.
<br>> two concerns here:<br>><br>> 1 -- I need to make this absolutely foolproof or my family will just<br>> get annoyed with me for futzing with a coputer. myhtv has worked<br>> great here; edubuntu on the other hand just languishes. I want to be
<br>> sure spouse & kids can use this in a very intuitive way.<br>> 2 -- I am also buying an ipod (hence option 5 below doesn't work so<br>> well for me!). It's important to me that the ipod also works<br>> unproblematically. anyway I haven't got the ipod yet so I will
<br>> experiment with exaile as soon as it gets here. will also check out<br>> gmusicbrowser-- that's one I hadn't heard of<br>><br>><br>> > > 2. If you aren't going to be using the desktop (ie.
<br>> > > icons<br>> > on the<br>> > > desktop), you could disable xfdesktop.<br>> > > 3. Try changing your theme to a more light-load theme<br>> > > (if applicable). 4. If you have kde and gnome services
<br>> > > enabled<br>> > at boot<br>> > > time, it will add a lot of wait time.<br>> > > 5. Get a faster computer?<br>> > > 6. I found
6.06 (Dapper) a bit faster then 6.10 (Edgy)<br>> > but I can't<br>> > > say for sure.<br>><br>> just went through a fair amount of hassle installing edgy, think I'll<br>> stay with that for now.
<br>> > > 7. Ensure the xfce4 compositor is disabled (most likely<br>> > is if you<br>> > > didn't enable it)<br>> > > 8. Remove any unnecessary panels or panel
<br>> > > plugins/launchers/objects/etc.<br>> > ><br>><br>> will do<br>> > > Hope that helps,<br>> > ><br>><br>> thanks!<br>> matt<br>
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