From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 2 23:18:47 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B69106568D for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 23:18:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from qmta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 249778FC13 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 23:18:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta10.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.28]) by qmta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id d45J1d00F0cZkys51BJnZf; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:18:47 +0000 Received: from comcast.net ([98.203.142.76]) by omta10.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id dBJi1d00S1f6R9u3WBJjZR; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:18:44 +0000 Received: by comcast.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:18:41 -0800 Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 15:18:41 -0800 From: Charlie Kester To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100202231840.GB1920@comcast.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <4B67A778.7040001@telenix.org> <87vdefgtbx.fsf@kobe.laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87vdefgtbx.fsf@kobe.laptop> X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.20 X-Composer: VIM 7.2 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: Recommendation X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:18:47 -0000 On Tue 02 Feb 2010 at 14:34:42 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >Exaile is a much lighter and nice player for Gnome fans. It doesn't >have all the features of Amarok, but it has a large subset and those >features that work seem to be mostly "ok". It doesn't have as many >developers as Amarok though, and it seems to be lagging far behind. > >I've been trying Rhythmbox too lately. It also recognizes IDv3 tags, >has playlist support, podcast download and archive support, last.fm >integration and online streaming radio support. Some bits of the UI >are, to put it mildly, "dumped down". This is a common problem of many >Gnome applications these days, it seems. I've only used it for about a >week or two now, so I can't really say if I _like_ it yet. I've been trying Exaile and Rhythmbox too. I think I prefer Rhythmbox, because it handles my .m3u playlists in the way I like. It immediately lists them in the sidebar under Playlists, and they persist there from session to session. Exaile seems to load them only temporarily; to get them into the sidebar, you have to explicitly save them as a custom playlist. (It's a minor point, I know, but I dislike what seem like unnecessary steps.) A more serious problem is that I can't seem to get either of them to work with any of my favorite podcasts. It always complains that it's unable to parse the feed. One tool I've found that does work with podcasts is PenguinTV. So that's what I'm currently using. What about mixers and/or equalizers? What are people using for that?