Am 28.03.2012 10:39, schrieb Gergely Nagy:
Pardon my ignorance, but how is a GTK+ player, that supports searching,
cover display and whatnot simpler and faster than gst123 ~/Music/* ?
You're right, this comparison should be limited to players with
graphical interfaces only.
What makes it faster than any other gstreamer-based audioplayer? Or
simpler than any of the other similar software? (Of which, we have
plenty of packaged already)
Audio players normally play songs instantly, so comparing that time
doesn't really make sense. What's important though is the startup time
of the program. Decibel has been written with that in mind
(http://decibel.silent-blade.org/index.php?n=Main.Benchmark) and Pogo
has even improved a bit on that. You shouldn't take the tagline too
seriously though, it is primarily a way to outline the primary goals
(simplicity and speed) and get people to try out the program for
themselves.
Based on the description, I found nothing that would make it more
interesting than some of the things we already have packaged. How is it
different from decibel audio player, of which pogo is a fork of?
Decibel is already a fast and easy-to-use player, but Pogo takes that
one step further: Among other features it uses less chrome so there's
more space for the tracks, it features searching (on the harddrive and
in the playlist) and groups tracks by album in the playlist to further
save space. Actually pogo is the only player I know of, that let's you
collapse and expand the playlist and move around albums with a single
dragdrop motion.
You're right, there are thousands of audio players, I just found none to
fit my needs excatly, so I went off to create another one. Decibel has
proven to be an excellent foundation for this because of its modular code.
BTW: There's already an Ubuntu PPA for pogo. Potential packagers can
find the packaging code at
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jendrikseipp/pogo/trunk/files/head:/debian/
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Ejendrikseipp/pogo/trunk/files/head:/debian/
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