Eduard Bloch <edi <at> gmx.de> writes: > I disagree. As said, I dislike a simple player touching every file for no > good reason, and I do not consider "codec detection" a such one. There > is simply no important information you would gather from that. Validity > of the file and the length are only interesting at play time. >
We've added a "feature" for people who feel this way which allows detection to be entirely postponed until playtime. However, that is only fully functional in 1.3 and later. > I fail to see what is so "broken" about the XMMS way. It may be > inconvinient for you when doing (re)design since you have to deal with > uncerntainity. But, well, are you going to create a comfortable player or > yet another piece of stupid multimedia software? > Well, I guess in your opinion we are going to create 'yet another piece of stupid multimedia software.' > And this is documented... where? Why not in the documentation balloons? > Ever heard about ISO 9241? Please get a copy and read parts 13 and 14, I > would also recommend reading VDI 3850 which is IMO a good tutorial in > designing human machine interfaces. It is documented at http://audacious-media-player.org/FAQ#11.4 Oh by the way, debian users can still use XMMS. There's nothing wrong with stopping them from: 1) Doing ./configure; make; make install, or: 2) Copying the debian source archives from the previous release and using dbuild to build packages for Lenny. and odds are: 3) Somebody else will have already done this and made a repo somewhere. Rarewares comes to mind. So honestly, if Audacious is not a suitable replacement for you it does not really matter as there are ways to retain XMMS. William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]