> At UDS, we actually looked hard at the experience of Music players and > playing - and both Banshee and Rhythmbox fared very badly, and we were > quite rude about both of them ;) > > The Banshee authors got a list via Jorge Castro, and Rhythmbox authors > will be getting lots of bugs filed for them. > > Banshee needs to be demonstrably _better_ than Rhythmbox, right now it's > only merely different. > > Scott
Judy out of curiosity, what were those which made it so low ranked? One thing off the top of my head is that playing podcasts is a different interface from playing other media. I can understand downloading them being in its own place, and even there being a shortcut to play downloaded items from the podcast download section, but in no media player I have encountered do downloaded podcasts simply appear in the same place as the rest of my media. What if, for example, I really like 60 Second Science and want those clips randomly placed in between my music? --Can't do, unless I manually drag and drop from Podcasts to Music Library. This is a similar foolishness to expecting the user to know that History in a web browser is displayed in the sidebar, thus to go to the View -> Sidebar menu to open that information. The user should not have to care how the media came to be; all he should have to think about is the media itself. Isn't that the point of media management software? Not sure if a list of problems already exists, but if not it would be useful to create one. There are definitely some problems in the design these programs follow, and since both Rhythmbox and Banshee are remarkably active projects I am sure some imaginative solutions could be developed. Bye, -Dylan
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