[orca-list] Accessible music player and podcatcher?

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

Has anyone found an accessible music player and podcatcher, other than 
Rhythmbox and Banshee?

Based on what I've read, Rhythmbox development is dead. Even so, it 
seems to behave rather non-deterministically with podcasts. Sometimes it 
downloads them, others it doesn't, even if I cancel and restart. It 
seems rather unreliable in checking, too, and will sometimes not find 
updates until much later. There's also a bug that requires enabling 
crossfade if you don't want Orca silenced on track switches. If I'm 
right about Rhythmbox development ending then it may not make sense to 
file bugs against it, but even so, I'm sure that I can't be the first to 
encounter these as this isn't the first system on which I've hit them.

Banshee shows promise. Unfortunately, though, it requires a patched GTK# 
which I can't build against current GNOME libs. Or I think that I could 
build it, but ultimately couldn't get it working. Despite building both 
Banshee and GTK# against their respective trunks, a11y features weren't 
enabled in Banshee because the version that GTK# trunk reported wasn't 
compatible with what the a11y test expected to find. Changing the 
pkg-config file after the fact resulted in a Banshee build that hung, so 
while that shows promise, I'm not sure that it will be usable until 
GNOME 3 when the backwards-compatible-breaking GTK# with a11y 
improvements is included. Also, there is an accessible build for Ubuntu, 
and while this works nicely in most respects and eliminates the need to 
enable crossfade, it reliably crashes when I attempt to view podcast 
feeds. Not sure whether this is an a11y issue or due to the fact that 
the build is somewhat out-of-date.

Anyhow, if I have to use Rhythmbox until 3.0 then so be it, as things 
work well for me in most other respects, but I'm wondering if there's 
some gem for music playback and podcatching that I'm missing?