Banshee just does not work for me. For one, it's a real resource hog. It takes ages to load and is slow to use. I have an aging Pentium M machine, but heck, it's got 2 GB of RAM and other apps run reasonable.
And next, it can't connect to my iTunes share because of this bug: https://github.com/jasonmc/forked-daapd/issues/54 Granted, this could also be a problem of forked-daapd, but Rythmbox does not have this problem. Cheers, Andreas On 11/07/2011 11:47 PM, Jason Warner wrote: > Hi All - > > During the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit we discussed moving from Banshee > back to Rhythmbox as the default music player for Ubuntu 12.04. No definitive > decision has been taken yet (major default apps tend to have many integration > points and broader discussions are needed before we can make that decision, > such as the Thunderbird decision in Oneiric) as we need to kick off the > further discussion. > > It was an interesting discussion overall and I wanted to reach out to the > broader Ubuntu community to get further feedback. So, feel free to reply with > your thoughts in this thread. > > For context, here are some of the discussion points. > > Areas of concern in Banshee were stability, start-up time, the overall > resource intensive nature of the application and how responsive an upstream > they were to Ubuntu specific needs. It was noted that Banshee is by far the > better UI, but many people experienced significant issues in stability thus > making it feel less usable. > > Areas of concern in Rhythmbox were U1 music integration, usability and how > active an upstream they were. Most people in attendance felt that Rhymbox > "just worked" but needed quite a bit of UI/usability work to make it a great > default application choice. > > I would like to welcome further feedback on the proposal to move back to > Rhythmbox here. Thanks in advance for your input. > > Jason > > > -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
