← Back to team overview

lubuntu-desktop team mailing list archive

Re: default music player selection

 

Although I'm lxmusic developer, my vote is for aqualung. It's much
more feature-complete and is less problemetic, too.

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Mario Behling <mb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> please see below.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Ciao Mario
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] default music player selection
> To: omer akram <om26er@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: lubuntu-desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> Hi,
>
> A bit more testing later, it seems that lxmusic (and other xmms2
> players) have a CPU usage issue. It's using near 50 % of my testing
> system, when aqualung near 10 %. It's too high for a program that can be
> using in the background.
>
> Regards,
> Julien Lavergne
>
> Le lundi 04 janvier 2010 à 00:37 +0100, Julien Lavergne a écrit :
>> Well I don't know if the choice was done by taking the fact that lxmusic
>> wasn't working in Karmic. Regarding the vote
>> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Applications/MusicAndAudio), seems
>> there is no real consensus to abandon lxmusic if it's working. It'll be
>> interesting to do some testing with the new lxmusic, to compare it with
>> aqualung (memory and cpu usage).
>>
>> Regards,
>> Julien Lavergne
>>
>> Le dimanche 03 janvier 2010 à 23:32 +0500, omer akram a écrit :
>> > hi, the default music player in the live cd don't look good and needs
>> > to be changed. i dont find its interface to be attractive plus not
>> > easy. so i suggest lxmusic i am using lxmusic 0.4.2 at the moment on
>> > my ubuntu install and it seems to be working well although i have to
>> > change the default sound device to also at or there was not sound.
>>
>>
>



Follow ups

References