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Re: Replacing Aqualung with Exaile [DISCUSSION]

 

Dude deadbeef is awesome

+10 for deadbeef to the maxxx

-ActionParsnip

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:46 AM, PCMan <pcman.tw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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