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Re: Replacing Aqualung with Exaile [DISCUSSION]

 

Hi,
Downloaded and playing. VERY impressed :-) It has the logical "Open File /
Folder / Place / CD" that is 'hidden' in Aqualung and also quite visible
playlist saving.

It's a +1 from me !!

Regards,

Phill.

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Glenn <glenn_de_groot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Does anyone know where to translate deadbeef?
>
> > If yuo want to test deadbeef:
> >
> > *sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexey-smirnov/deadbeef; sudo apt-get
> update;
> > sudo apt-get install deadbeef*
> >
> > 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>:
> > 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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