Re: Rhythmbox (was: Re: XMMS alternatives?)
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:10:54PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> On Jul 06 2003, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote:
> > Finally, after an upgrade to the 0.99 version at unstable, it
> > worked. Until now, much less ugly than XMMS, and Gnome2 besides.
> > So I guess I have one less Gnome1 app to worry about!
>
> It seems that Rhythmbox is potentially a nice alternative for XMMS.
> See <http://www.rhythmbox.org>. Unfortunately, it isn't that active
> nowadays, but I hope that development gets a kick soon.
And it uses to crash a lot, i guess the database format it uses for its
playlists are not compatible in between upgrades or something such.
There is also quark, which i package, which works rather nicely, but
it's anti-GUI declared philosophy may not make it a replacement for
XMMS.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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