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Re: Replacing Aqualung with Exaile [DISCUSSION]

 

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I have made contact with one of the developers.
I asked him about translations and Deadbeef missing in the repo´s, his
awnser:

> hey, Glenn
>
> about translations - yesterday i've commited gettext support and
> russian translation, so it should be open to all translators in a few
> days (we are testing it now, before merging to master branch)
> i will read about what is rosetta, and how to integrate with it..
>
> as for adding to ubuntu repos.. i have no idea how to do that.
> i've seen there's a "needs packaging" request in ubuntu bugzilla, and
> our ubuntu/debian guy made a PPA, but there's not much feedback.



> 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:
> 
> 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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