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[Andrew <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 00:44, Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I just love DeadBeef... I only miss one thing: being able to import
>> playlists form other music players. Xnoise is interesting because it
>> can play videos too and from what I've read, Ubuntu is targeting a
>> media player such as Banshee (it's being considered to be made default
>> for UNE sometime) because it can play both music and video files. And
>> that does make sense: a media player instead of both a video and a
>> music player.

> Someone suggested this to me : keep only a video player which plays
> music and drop the music player. And I must admit that the option is a
> valid one. gnome-mplayer can do all the job.
> Another (bad) example, Windows have only a media player, not a video +
> music player.

That seems like a good idea until people try Deadbeef... I suggested it to a
few people and they all loved it. It seems a perfect choice for a light
distro and I'd say: go for it in 10.10. But that is just my personal
opinion.

And some other point to consider: some old computers can't even play some
videos properly due to very old hardware, while all can play music. That's
why I was thinking about Xnoise: a music player that can play videos too
seems better than a video player that can play music.