Re: [LAU] Decent and attractive audio player

On 27/04/08 15:23:50, Dave Phillips wrote: Is that a published review? Is it available online? Have they got gapless playback to work yet? From time to time I try rhythmbox as it seems to have some promising ideas and has the backing of the GNOME project but have always run into issues in the past. Lack of gapless playback was one of them and also the time and resources used scanning for metadata has often been another. Perhaps no-one tests players on a large collection. I was a fan of xmms in the past but it does seem very dated now. For quite a while I had settled on mpd. The metadata engine in mpd was very much faster than earlier versions of rhythmbox and it supports gapless playback. Recently though its CPU usage seems to have gone up to the point I get loads of sound dropouts if the machine is doing anything else, hence taking a second look at rhythmbox. For me the important attributes are good sound quality (for example poor resampling algorithms are no good), support for the formats I use - mostly FLAC these days but also plenty of Ogg/Vorbis and a little MP3, gapless playback, good performance and a usable GUI that integrates well with the GNOME desktop. Other things like metadata editing are less important. Of course I need something to do that but I don't mind if this is a different application and, for some changes, scripting the command line tools work well too. Regards, Steve.