Comments on: Banshee by default – outlook looks hazy

By: hitchi

hitchi — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:46:24 +0000

mpd for for your colection, great frontends like ncmpc (ncurses) and sonata (pygtk) and some more duzens.If just trying a tune MPlayer will suffice.
I don’t care about the mono wars, mono is free software/open source like every app I use, i don’t use it because all the mono apps i know and tried are resource hogs.
Banshee is pretty and slow and crashed a lot on me (ver 1.2), Rhytmbox is nice and stable but a bit slow, Exaile seems fine although not have fiddle with it much, last time i tried Amarok i was on kde 3.2???I’m getting old, i can remember a stable kde release.And a rock solid SuSE Linux 9.1.
Well, mpd can give you control over your music, it’s gapless, it doesn’t stutter when changing to virtual consoles, it’ doesn’t squeeze neither your RAM nor your CPU, bla bla bla.I like to save ram and cpu for firefox, she eats a lot, the damned fox.

By: directhex

directhex — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:27:20 +0000

@legion1978, nobody's made a case for it, simple as that. Although if memory serves, the Python-based players such as Listen and Exaile are even worse in terms of RAM consumption as compared to Rhythmbox. I don't know about other details like library importing, as I haven't really looked at it.

By: legion1978

legion1978 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:35:08 +0000

Why not consider listen player? Are there also technical difficulties?

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Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:24:57 +0000

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By: Exsecrabilus

Exsecrabilus — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:44:50 +0000

Banshee has better help documentation than Rhythmbox. When you hover your mouse over something you don’t know, a message pops up near your mouse explaining what it’s for. This is lighter than a classic documentation and quicker and easier to access. In Rhythmbox you have to go to Help -> Contents and try to guess which section to look into; and half of the time it’s not even stated there because the documentation is rarely updated for the latest release.

By: Marcos

Marcos — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:31:30 +0000

Banshee sucks a lot. Fact. I don’t care if is a mono app or a java app. It sucks.
There are better music players for example exaile. Which is faster AND better.
Like I said… I don’t have anything agaisnt mono or mono apps, but banshee sucks and don’t deserve to be a default app. Period.

1. Exaile
2. Amarok
3. Sonata
4. Banshee
5. Rhytmbox

By: hb

hb — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:10:33 +0000

@Ed, so you're not a lawyer, but you know for sure that the CP is not legally binding? How come? Because of your interpretation of the word "promise"? It's hard to take such people seriously.

By: directhex

directhex — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:27:04 +0000

@oiaohm, Yeah, we all know how important prior art is to the USPTO

By: oiaohm

oiaohm — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:56:20 +0000

Do you history please. UNO is older the COM. It is found first in StarOffice from the 1980~ way before MS even though up the idea of COM. So COM patents could be completely invalid due to prior art of staroffice.

The author of the UNO design is not even known. 2000 copyright on OpenOffice source files covering UNO is the Sun release date.