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Re: Possible additions / changes

 

The only problem I could see with exaile is its dependency on gstreamer.
Since mplayer is the default movie player for lubuntu it makes sense to
utilize mplayer as the backend to handle music playing to avoid adding
unneeded libraries to the overall system.

Regards,
Ronnie
Buntfu.com


> Pmount makes sense but I tried gmusicbrowser and it is nether a
> lightweight music player like lxmusic which I think should remain the
> default nor a full music library  like exaile which I think should be a
> recommended option for those who want to mange a music library and not
> just play the odd song.
>
> The main issue I had with gmusicbrowser was that it seemed to take over
> my CPU and it didn't seem as complete and user-friendly as exaile anyway.
>
> Regards
>
> Joe
>
> Support@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Two possible additions, first pmount seems to take care of PCManFM not
>> mounting cd's and usb devices... the second would be to replace the
>> music
>> player with gmusicbrowser since you can use mplayer as its backend, it
>> has
>> many interfaces and handles large music libraries very well and it super
>> lightweight... these were the first things i changed when installing
>> lubuntu for a friend..
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ronnie
>> Buntfu.com
>>
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