Re: [Banshee-List] banshee vs songbird

["Paul Bartell" <paul-bartell ubuntu com>]

I seem to have found songbird more reliable, crashing less, and also
having support for Greek/Russian characters, something that makes
banshee run and die. If songbird had a cd-import option, i would find
it a full alternative.

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:41 AM, LCID Fire <lcid-fire gmx net> wrote:
> Jud Craft wrote:
>>
>> Don't forget that Songbird is just a web browser that had music
>> functionality tacked on.  And on Linux it looks ugly as all get out.
>> Why the Songbird (which is based on a browser that visually integrates
>> well with GTK) looks so out of place is a mystery to me.
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>
> Well I think it's due to the fact that Songbird is totally skinable - which
> is a concept e.g. Firefox abandoned quite a while back (obvious reasons).
> I used Songbird for a month on one of my computers (since Banshee kept
> crashing) and it is quite similar to Banshee. The good news is IMO Banshee
> is still better in almost all regards that I used. The only thing that maybe
> should be inspired from Songbird is the "Drag cover here" implementation.
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