Please create a new thread for this changed topic. -- Erik. On 03/08/09 00:34, Tim wrote: > 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. > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
