Re: [Banshee-List] how do you get to advanced configuration/preferences?

["Andrew Conkling" <andrew conkling gmail com>]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 7:08 AM, happyhessian <mmdanziger gmail com> wrote:

it seems like there are little to no options that the user has control of in
banshee.

In general, since Banshee is a GNOME application, it uses a more "automatic" setup with less exposure to the internals.

* the encoder it uses for ripping (it always says no encoder for flac even
though sound juicer, kaudiocreator and other programs have no problem with
flac. i know it uses gstreamer but i have good, bad, ugly and base all
installed and still nothing)

 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523303

* the database it uses for querying cds (like other users, there are many
cds that it does not find but sound juicer, amarok, kaudiocreator all find)

Banshee uses MusicBrainz like Sound Juicer does, but could have some problems finding some albums. Can you see if this is what's happening to you? http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527788.

i understand that maybe two many menus and too complex an "Edit
preferences..." menu would scare away many users but why not have some sort
of about:config file or a more classic POSIX config file stored in a
directory somewhere.  Maybe there is one and I just can't find it.

All GNOME applications use GConf, which is a registry-type system akin to about:config. You can change some settings there, but I can't recall which options of Banshee's you'd need GConf to change. (What you mentioned specifically isn't really configurable, and most of the options in GConf are set in the program itself.)

banshee with all the default settings still rocks amarok, songbird (though i
haven't tried out 0.7 yet) and anything else i've used--but the inability to
tweak it leaves me pulling my hair out a lot of the time!

Yes, Banshee rocks, and it rocks without having to tweak it. :D

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Andrew Conkling
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