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...@gmail.com> 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 <gi...@ubuntu.com> 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > > Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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