On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 16:28, Seth Nickell wrote: > Rhythmbox is not "advanced" multimedia functionality. It is not a "music > manager" (whatever that's supposed to mean, but RB is a music manager > whatever that is... RB doesn't even have support for editing ID3 tags > atm!), Pretty much all the code for this needed in Rhythmbox has been written. We're mostly just waiting on some GStreamer bugfixes to do mp3 tag writing; vorbis tag writing will require an as-yet-to-be-written ogg muxer. > If we want "playing music" to be one of the tasks the GNOME desktop > supports, we should include a music player. Rhythmbox is far and away > the best music player interface available for GNOME in this designer's > opinion. If we *don't* want "playing music" to be one of the tasks the > desktop supports, we are crazy and way behind the times. I tend to agree with you, personally. However, the Rhythmbox team has recently decided to withdraw our proposal for being included in GNOME 2.6. Here's my reasoning: 1) Some opposition of release team members 2) I'm not sure we'll be able to get GStreamer metadata completely solid (especially tag writing) by the release date. What I'd prefer to do is give the GStreamer maintainers a bit less pressure to hack something in last-minute, and instead allow them a bit more flexibility to change APIs. I do hope that GStreamer 0.8 (which should be in GNOME 2.6) will be solid enough to support an independently-released Rhythmbox 0.8. 3) We have a lot of changes in the pipeline (such as ipod support), most of which affect the UI. Deferring the Rhythmbox 0.8 release perhaps by a month will allow us to get all these changes in, instead of punting them to much later. 4) There's some pretty major bugs with respect to internet radio (in particular connecting to a dead iradio site) that are very hard to fix with the current GStreamer architecture, and we'll probably have to punt to GStreamer 1.0. Basically, what it comes down to is that if Rhythmbox is going to be included in GNOME, I want it to absolutely *rock*. Right now I think it's pretty good. But by the time GNOME 2.8 rolls around (and 6mo isn't that far away, really!), hopefully we'll be there, and we can have this discussion again then :)
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