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[Phillip Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

As ever, pcman, a good point. Yeah, we *need *to keep a music player. I like
DeadBeef, it's low resource usage means that my laptop hardly knows it is
running :-)

Regards,

Phill.



On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:19 PM, PCMan <pcman.tw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 1. Given you have proper codecs and audio libs installed for mplayer,
> adding a music player won't bring many addiional dependencies since
> they are already there.
> 2. Usability matters. If you consider user interface, gnome-mplayer is
> a nice video player but it's really a bad music player. It's even
> difficult for the users to find that gnome-mplayer actually plays
> music.
> 3. Playing music and video are quite different things.  The focus of
> video player is smooth image processing, and the focus of music player
> should be playlists management. It's quite often that you have more
> than 100 songs in playlist, but normally you won't put 100 video files
> in play queue and play them one by one. Music player and video player
> are totally for different purpose.
> 4. If someone still remember, winamp 5, the famous music player on
> Windows in the past tried to support video playback, but do people use
> it? It's still mostly used as music player.
>
> Unless your goal is something that can fit 100 mb cd, I think that
> removing music player is not a valid approach to a desktop focusing on
> usability.
>
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 5:44 AM, Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Le jeudi 24 juin 2010 à 00:13 +0300, Andrew a écrit :
> >> 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.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Julien Lavergne
> >
> >
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