Dick asks: > And why is songbird so much better than rhythmbox that is provided by gnome already on opensolaris?
Steve and Brian gave good answers. My answer deals with Rhythmbox being great for what it does and it came before SongBird publically existed (I've package maintained Rhythmbox on Sun Solaris 8 before OpenSolaris.org existed and before it was a official part of Sun JDS). SongBird 0.5RC2 reflects the Apple iTunes 'look-and-feel' that some iPod music management users may like. SongBird comes with extensions, iPod support, and many nice features under one umbrella. SongBird is simply my iTunes contender - but Rhythmbox is still up there as well. James Cornell asks: > Supported codecs out of the box? (Add in comments about legal rights > too if Sun's really concerned about it) Sun's MP3 codec is bundled with > OpenSolaris/Solaris, right? The limitations are in the front-end audio tools. The back-end GStreamer 0.10 audio framework was extended to support the modern audio codecs available under Linux/BSD. Use audio conversion apps to support the legacy audio codecs. :o) Legacy audio codecs as in: "8svx aif aifc aiff aiffc al au auto avr caf cdda cdr cvs cvsd dat dvms fap fssd gsm hcom ima ircam la lu mat mat4 mat5 maud mp2 mp3 nist nul null ogg paf prc pvf raw s3 sb sd2 sds sf sl smp snd sndfile sndt sou sph sw txw u3 u4 ub ul uw vms voc vorbis vox w64 wav wve xa xi" ~ Ken Mays This message posted from opensolaris.org
