Re: Proposed: Rhythmbox

["Dirk-Jan C. Binnema" <bulkmeel yahoo co uk>]

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004, Ross Burton wrote:

> 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 want to second this... however, unlike Ross I do not want to use
Totem instead. There are just some small things that would make RB so
much better:

- auto-update when new songs are added
- a way to sort on the filesystem location of songs; thus I can see my
  newly downloaded songs in ~/newsongs, and either delete them or move
  them to a more permanent place
- some rudimentary way to change the meta-data of songs (esp. downloaded
  songs are often badly tagged). Maybe make Artist/Title/Album not case
  sensitive?
- I have the feeling the shuffle-algorithm could be improved. Like
  never play the same song again before all others are played.

Apart from that, I think RB is great! But there's no reason to make it
part of the GNOME desktop release. What goes in should be based on what
developers want (which means: only really core thing, panel, fm etc.
and foundation stuff for programs). Users don't care if RB is in
gnome-core or gnome-music or whatever. So the decision to include or
not should not be based on that,  imho.

Cheers,
Dirk.

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