End of road for Rhythmbox

[Rem0te C0ntr01]

I am also sad to hear this news. I love Rhythmbox! I even switched from amarok to rhythmbox after my music library got to big that amarok was slow to find my searches. Rhythmbox has been speedy even after 60 gigs of music. I will be sad to see it go. I have not tried Banshee or Exaile. I hope they work well with large libraries.

[Keyper7]

Exaile is based on python

So?

Not arguing, just asking.

[b3n87]

Python can be slow and is more dependancies that needed to be run on the PC. Theres nothing *bad* about it, its just programs like Rhythmbox which is written in C are a lot more efficent and run faster with less memory

[Keyper7]

Python can be slow and is more dependancies that needed to be run on the PC. Theres nothing *bad* about it, its just programs like Rhythmbox which is written in C are a lot more efficent and run faster with less memory

More efficient? Probably. A lot more efficient? I don't know.

Exaile is mostly what, GTK and GStreamer? For both the Python versions are actually bindings to C libraries.

Good programming can probably ensure that the overhead is not very large.

[doorknob60]

Rhythmbox is one of the only 3 media players I can stand using on Linux. My top 3:
3. Rhythmbox
2. Amarok
1. Exaile

Sad to see it go I guess, but Exaile is good for GTK users and of course there's still Amarok (I'll stick with 1.4 until 2.x gets good. Sometimes it feels like it has no hope for it to be good. Then I think back and that's exactly the way I thought when KDE 4.0 came out. Now look, I'm using KDE 4.2 full time on my desktop, so Amarok 2 has amazing potential.) Banshee never worked right for me though. The reason Exaile is #1 is because it allows me to put media buttons in the system tray, genious! I can use hotkeys, but often the buttons are more convinient (I use both regularly).

[gnomeuser]

Not going to miss it, it was always unstable to me and the pace at which features are added can best be described as glacial. It e.g. still does not do proper portable player syncronization.

I am hoping this will spell wider adoption of Banshee, it is a great player with a fast paced development that quickly gets us fixes, features and bling.

[directhex]

Not going to miss it, it was always unstable to me and the pace at which features are added can best be described as glacial. It e.g. still does not do proper portable player syncronization.

I am hoping this will spell wider adoption of Banshee, it is a great player with a fast paced development that quickly gets us fixes, features and bling.

I'd feel much better about a formal s/rhythmbox/banshee/ proposal for the desktop team if Banshee had true parity with ALL RB features - for example, it has no daap server (only client), and no online store

It's the player app I use, but changing default app needs SERIOUS thought

[gnomeuser]

I'd feel much better about a formal s/rhythmbox/banshee/ proposal for the desktop team if Banshee had true parity with ALL RB features - for example, it has no daap server (only client), and no online store

It's the player app I use, but changing default app needs SERIOUS thought

On the other hand, Banshee will quickly catch up and it has already surpassed Rhythmbox on so many fronts. 100% regression free upgrades are nearly impossible.

I think Scott just demoed a full DAAP server for banshee and I have seen the first work being done on a magnatune pluigin. I have no idea where those are in terms of development though.

[hoboken]

Guys, this is open source. It's not dead, just changing hands.

Relax.

[directhex]

Guys, this is open source. It's not dead, just changing hands.

Relax.

Perhaps. Perhaps it might even be a good thing - new blood, fresh excitement, faster development, etc

But it unavoidably causes people to reassess their reliance on a project with apparently no active upstream development