[Cowbell] Most useful to the most people

[Alvin A ONeal Jr <coolaj86 gmail com>]

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Hello All,

A week or so ago I was looking for an app that had the feature similar
to that of "Supper Tagging" in MusicMatch. Cowbell is definitely what
I'm looking for. It's a very decent app.

However, the size of my list under "Applications » Sound & Video" is
getting a bit big. I already use gnome-cd, rhythmbox, and soundjuicer to
manage my music files -- and now cowbell.

So my intent here is to ask this question and stir up some thought:
What is the advantage to creating yet another standalone application for
music management?

To me it would make more sense to integrate the features of all of the
above (and perhaps totem too) into a single application -- or provide
them as plugins (the rythmbox / sound-juicer integration is nice, but
far too weak).

I like that, for the most part, I can stick someone in front of a Linux
box with Gnome (particularly Ubuntu) and just say "figure it out" and,
unlike windows or mac, they can easily find the applications they need
and get work done without prior knowledge of the system - that is truly
elegant. In furthering that cause, I see cowbell as a really powerful
feature that can add to the simplicity of the end-user experience, but I
think it would be most useful to the most people as an integral part of
a mulitmedia app.

Brad mentioned banshee to me so when that's finished compiling
perhaps it will ease some of my mulitmedia woe -- couldn't cowbell be
put into something like that?


- - --
8^)
Laterz-
~Alvin
http://CoolAJ86.Havenite.net
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