On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 09:03 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Does anyone in the Real World actually think of themselves as using a > "media player"? Perhaps they consider playing video and playing music > to be two different things. Now there's a thought ... I tend to think of a media player as one that can play anything you throw at it. They're often not the best option for playing specific files, though. While mplayer is good for looking at some MPEG or FLV that you've just downloaded, it's awful for playing through your music collection. XMMS or Audacity would be my preference for my music collection, they're small, relatively simple, and have a playlist feature that does its job well. RhythmBox is too convoluted. It's a big app, CPU intensive, and struggles with a large music library. The search feature's nice, but the other problems put me off it. It's playlist handling sucks. Totem seems like an experimental app that hasn't been finished. Like when you see someone try to make their own Winamp clone, and give up with only implementing a third of the features. I think it was adding the gstreamer-ffmpeg package that finally got it to play some of the common restricted file formats we have to cope with. But it's still a pig to use. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
