Re: G2.10 Module Proposal: Sound Juicer
- From: Steven Garrity <stevelist silverorange com>
- To: Ryan McDougall <NQG24419 nifty com>
- Cc: Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>, GNOME Desktop Devel List <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: G2.10 Module Proposal: Sound Juicer
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:26:08 -0400
Ryan McDougall wrote:
Any luck waving/speaking/collaborating with the goobox maintainer?
http://gnome.org/start/2.9/desktop/#proposed
I just tried out the latest Goobox (0.6.0) [1], I'm quite impressed. The
UI is dead-simple, but does everything I need.
While the UI looks quite similar to Sound Juicer, there are a few nice
differences:
- I prefer the placement of the CD controls in Goobox
(at the top rather than the bottom, where they are in SJ)
- *Very* cool use of CD cover art, including a great/simple way
of searching and selecting cover art from the web. Also has a
nice default CD icon when there is no cover art available.
- The most visible/evident function is *playing* CDs, though
ripping is easily accessible (maybe an "Extract" button on
the toolbar would be nice though).
- Nice disclosure triangle to show/hide the track list (which
allows a really nice 'small' layout option [2])
Screenshots of Goobox are available at http://gnome.org/~paobac/goobox/
Having only taken a pretty superficial look at Goobox (downloaded,
compiled, ran, played with it a bit), it seems quite capable and
polished. Is there something I'm missing that Sound Juicer
has/does/will-do that makes it a better option?
Goobox is something of an unfortunate name - though perhaps whichever of
the two is chosen to replace gnome-cd could have the honour of becoming
"CD Player 2".
I also wonder, perhaps in the longer term, if all of these capabilities
should be included in Rhythmbox. While I love the simplicity of a CD
player app, it does seem a bit odd to have one app for playing CDs, and
another for playing all other music files/formats.
Thanks,
Steven Garrity
[1] http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=531
[2] http://www.gnome.org/~paobac/goobox/screenshot-002.png
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