Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee versus Clementine versus any other audio software

[James <jamesqf charter net>]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:06:48 -0700, Martin G <ebisumartin gmail com> wrote:

> I'm not expecting any major solutions, but where else can I express
> what is basically just sadness that after 7 or 8 years, Ubuntu still
> doesn't have a music application that is as reliable as maybe as many
> as a dozen, or more, options for other operating systems.

Just a thought here, but why should Banshee, or any other application,
be exclusively for Ubuntu, or FTM exclsively for KDE/Gnome?  I don't
use Ubuntu, and it's unlikely that I ever will. Likewise, I don't use
KDE or Gnome (which at least has the GTK libs so I can run their apps
apart from their desktop),  By restricting development to particular
platforms, aren't you drastically limiting the pool of potential
developers?


> I don't like Banshee because:
> It does not reliably load streaming internet audio. (Some links do not
> work, some take several tries to load)
> No crossfading
> It does not come with sets of pre-bookmarked internet radio streams

Whereas I can't imagine any circumstance in which I'd want to access
an internet radio stream.  We all scratch where we itch :-)

James