Re: [orca-list] Accessible music player and podcatcher?

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

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Hi
I'm not sure Rhythmbox development is as dead as we think. If nothing
else, plans for the projected Ubuntu music store service as well as some
other plans seem to indicate that they at least will be developing
Rhythmbox further somehow. Banshee would be nice, but I don't have the
patience right now to build it on this not-so-fast system of mine.
I haven't found Rhythmbox handles Podcasts reliably, I get the same
results you do. For a podcatcher, I use Gpodder. It works well, behaves
as you'd expect for a podcatcher, and can even sync to my iPhone and my
Rockbox-running Sansa Fuze, neither of which Rhythmbox can do correctly.
For now, I just run Rhythmbox and Gpodder though I'd like to find a
replacement for Rhythmbox as well since I still occasionally have the
problem where it goes to the next song but Orca somehow manages to
deaden the audio in Rhythmbox until Orca is closed. Very irritating.

On 03/03/2010 11:10 AM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> 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?
>
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