On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 19:41, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> Music management isn't wanted for the "corporate desktop", as far as I
> am aware. But it's a killer app for everyone else. The multimedia
> capabilities of both OS X and Windows have taken off recently by
> including a media player that can manage the media as well as just play
> it; this is what rhythmbox is, and as far as I know music management
> isn't planned for totem.
As much as I love Rhythmbox at work, where we have something like 15G of
well-tagged music, its use does depend on well-tagged music and an
understanding that it uses a database, so doesn't magically know about
songs the user downloaded/ripped/moved.
I've got a small script so my financée can use giFTcurs to download,
erm, freely available music. She uses Rhythmbox to play the music on my
PC (as it removes the "find the music" problem) so she then tried to
look though the Rhythmbox lists to find the song which was just
downloaded, and obviously failed. She got rapidly annoyed at having to
press Add to Library every time a song was downloaded, and switched back
to XMMS[1]. Of course if RB monitored the directories it had added, this
wouldn't be such a problem. I don't know if the latest RB does this,
I've only got 0.6.3 on my machines at the moment.
I believe that Totem is a preferable choice for Desktop, for several
reasons:
1) UI is simpler. There is no music management beyond a simple playlist,
which makes the usage model a lot clearer for many users.
2) it can play more than music. If Rhythmbox is added we still don't
have a movie player in the desktop, despite having a framework which can
play movies [2]. We then might add Totem in G2.8, and have two music
players.
Ross
[1] One day I shall sneak in and remove XMMS from her MIME associations,
and replace it for good with Totem
[2] Assuming gstreamer 0.7 is doing well and can play a lot of movies
now, I've not tried it myself
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