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[Mike Nokel <mnokel@xxxxxxxxx>]

2010/5/15 PCMan <pcman.tw@xxxxxxxxx>

> I encourage every Lubuntu and LXDE users to try DeadBeef, an almost
> perfect lightweight yet feature-rich music player.
> The author provided deb packages already. The latest release is quite
> awesome.
> http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/
> The UI is very similar to that of LXMusic, but it's much more functional.
> Please try it and share your opinions.
> This is my favorite so far.
>
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:26 AM, Sylkis <sylkis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > hi
> > in my personal opinion exaile is worthless. I had only problems with
> > it, user-unfriendly interface, trying to be amarok-like libary with
> > addition of player. both aqualung and rythmbox are much better choice.
> > rhythmbox has bizzare interface that you have to learn how to use, but
> > it is possible to do that (unlike with exaile, wich seems very similar
> > to players like amarok so ypu think theres nothing to learn, but then
> > it suprises you with its options and features hidden so much that you
> > can't configure it at all and in the end it unusable and impossible to
> > learn it without help on forums! and we want lubuntu to be easy for
> > everyone, right?), and aqualung is pure spartan simplicity, yet
> > powerfullness, like foobar on windows, with wich you have to really
> > try to mess something up to have it not working.
> > so I'd stick to aqualung.
> > cheers
> >
> > 2010/5/15 Glenn <glenn_de_groot@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
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> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I am sending this mail because of the advise Julien Lavergne gave me in
> >> our big ¨Lubuntu application discussion for maverick¨ discussion. :P
> >>
> >> This mail is about discussing Aqualung replacing with Exaile.
> >> Exaile is a bit like a lightweight rhythmbox, it loads quickly and
> >> supports a lot of music files. Through Synaptic you can even install a
> >> plugin for Ipod support, and you can also install a plugin for pidgin so
> >> pidgin can display the music song you are listening with Exaile.
> >> Exaile uses about 18,8 mb of memory on idle, and Aqualung uses 9.9 mb of
> >> memory on idle (LXmusic 2.7 mb :P )
> >> Exaile has many advantages, it is not gray and not odd looking like
> >> Aqualung (which looks weird in every Desktop Enviroment) less
> >> dependencies, more support because of a bigger project. (e.g Exaile has
> >> a good launchpad page with bug reporting and translating all open to
> >> everyone, Aqualung hasn´t got a launchpad page.)
> >> Is the 9 mb difference in memory consumption acceptable in Lubuntu? Or a
> >> slightly different question, is it worth the sacrifice? (Atleast I think
> >> it definetly is, but what about you guys?)
> >>
> >> - -Glenn
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Thank you, PCMan. I have tried it - it has very simple user-frinedly
interface, uses about 9 mb of memory. So, it is my choice for audio player
now.