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Re: Possible additions / changes

 

lxmusic does seem perfect hopefully the bugs get worked out

> The combination of gnome-mplayer as a multimedia player for everything and
> xmms2 + lxmusic for music management would be the best combination for the
> future.
> If xmms2 and lxmusic won't become stable or good enough, we can always
> stick to aqualung.
> As we are creating an LXDE based Distribution we should stick to something
> developed by the LXDE guys, because this will help them to improve there
> apps. (more testers -> more bug reports -> better software). So lxmusic
> should be definitely be in.
>
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:04:49 -0700 (MST)
> Support@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> 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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