Comments on: GNOME audio player shootout

By: Phrodo_00

Phrodo_00 — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:29:14 +0000

Although I’ve switched to quodlibet just now, Rhythmbox is pretty nice too, and doesn’t lack functionality, even less if we talk about the last releases (visualization, crossfading, gapless playing, last.fm radio playing (haven’t found it in anything else), On-line drm-less indie music shoping and free listening, playing queue,sweet awn integration plugin) end the ones to come (fm radio playing and more goodies, as well as features under the skin that would allow adding for example an eq in the future)

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:38:52 +0000

I have nothing against Python. Quite like it, in fact, and I certainly don't blame people for using it. But there is a difference in speed between a scripting language and compiled native code. And it's not as minute as you make it seem. And to some people, myself included, speed is important.

By: Joe Ally

Joe Ally — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:02:38 +0000

Being written in python is not really a down point. Sure you get a 0.1 second lag compared to native code, but who cares about that.

you shouldn’t knock python its so much easier to write in, C++ is like traditional bloody mandarin compared to python, you can’t blame people for programming in python.

By: Schlak Shack » Blog Archive » GNOME needs an Amarok

Schlak Shack » Blog Archive » GNOME needs an Amarok — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:24:58 +0000

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By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:16:15 +0000

I know that Amarok offers MusicBrainz integration, though I must admit that it was never very responsive at all for me. I found it easier to simply masstag manually.

Quod Libet’s large plugin collection is a major point in its favor, in my estimation. Rather like Firefox, it’s a perfectly fine program made almost indispensable by its community of users/devlopers.

By: Michael M.

Michael M. — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:15:52 +0000

Thanks much for this excellent overview. I’ve been using Quod Libet for a while now and am very happy with it, but I like to check up every so often on what other GTK players are out there and what they’re doing.

FYI, one of my favorite things about Quod Libet is the plug-in that enables one to tag albums from the Musicbrainz.org database. This is a tremendous timesaver for me — no more typing out song titles and so on! I’m not sure which, if any, other players offer this kind of integration. There are stand-alone Musicbrainz taggers for Linux, but I just find it very convenient to tag directly from the audio player.

By: random and fake legal partners

random and fake legal partners — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:32:54 +0000

Well written article. I cam here from a google for rhythmbox sqlite, in hope of learning how to get out of the SQlite swamp. My current rhythmbox database is 130MB, and contains data on 50k songs. Take that bdotmall ;) Next stop mpd frontend.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:21:12 +0000

As I mentioned in the writeup, the fastest clients are likely going to be those written in native code (Rhythmbox in C and Amarok in C++) rather than those written in a scripting language. Mono apps fall somewhere in the middle.

For large collections, though, I assume you mean large metadata databases. Once again, Amarok is the only app that currently supports external databases. Having a MySQL server feeding library data is extra overhead, system-wise, but will also deliver the fastest performance for queries. That being said, since this deals mainly with GNOME players, Quod Libet seems to have a pretty fast and flexible library. Exaile currently has a bug which makes it flaky above a certain library size, but that’s likely a high-priority fix for the next version. For all I know, it’s been fixed already.

By: bdotmall

bdotmall — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:07:09 +0000

First of all.. what an excellent write-up. I can’t say how appreciative I am of people who take the time to put together such clean, well-written write-ups on topics that many readers – newbies and experienced users alike – can really benefit from.

I’ve been a Windows user since 3.0 all the way up to now Vista and I’m just starting to get into Linux, so I’m always “Googling” something and write-ups like these have been invaluable.

Again.. thanks.

An open question to the author or anyone else who can answer: my mp3 collection is now pushing over 100GB… which “music manager / media player” is best suited for large collections? I’m not concerned with video, an 99% of my music is in MP3 format. I really love the “sizzle” of “Exaille!” with all the media-rich features such as album art, but having to wait for everything to load can be quite tiresome. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:16:41 +0000

Hoopla, and the rest:

< 1 week), title = /rhapsod/)
to listen to all Rhapsodies you got in the last week.
2. QL is the only player that lets you use your own tags.
Say, “performer”, say “work”, etc