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Re: Replacing Aqualung with Exaile [DISCUSSION]

 

Maybe we can take some time to do this and send the patch to its
author. This should not be too hard.

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Sylkis <sylkis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> WOW! I'm impressed. this DeadBeef player looks like it's going to be
> my fav - it perfectly the thing I was looking for!
> BUT!
> there is one problem for me. guess it won't be for any new users, by I
> have a lot of playlists in .m3u format, as well as a lot of people may
> have some in .pls and other such popular ones. and this player
> supports only it's own playlist format... pity.
> if the palylist importing (converting?) would be added, then it is a
> perfect player for me! :)
>
> 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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