Media Player blowout!

[dca]

Just looking for ideas... Ubuntu comes pre-installed w/ (1) Totem Movie Player which can play CDs, movies, etc (2) Rhythmbox Music Player which can play CDs, MP3s, etc, etc (3) Serpentine dealie which can extract (rip) CDs, play CDs, etc. Is there a single Media Player out there that can do all these things and which one do you recommend?

[dca]

err: sorry, meant Sound Juicer for extracting, but heck throw in the other also...

[TheWizzard]

i don't think there's a one-for-all application. linux is build modular.
for playing music you want to check amarok or, if you're a diehard gnome adept, listen.

[bastiegast]

i don't think there's a one-for-all application. linux is build modular.
for playing music you want to check amarok or, if you're a diehard gnome adept, listen.

I prefer banshee, but ill try listen some day..

[nalmeth]

Kaffeine can do all the things mentioned

[d3v1ant_0n3]

I'm quite liking Songbird at the moment, but it's still very buggy- I have trouble with video playback.

Kaffiene doesn't seem to get on with Beryl on my system (kills the WM).

Amarok is great, but REALLY eats resources for about 2 mins after starting it.(For me at least.)

[plb]

Just looking for ideas... Ubuntu comes pre-installed w/ (1) Totem Movie Player which can play CDs, movies, etc (2) Rhythmbox Music Player which can play CDs, MP3s, etc, etc (3) Serpentine dealie which can extract (rip) CDs, play CDs, etc. Is there a single Media Player out there that can do all these things and which one do you recommend?

Songbird will be able to do all that in the future.

[banjobacon]

Rhythmbox can do everything you listed (and burn audio CDs, which you did not mention), except play videos.

Do you really want your music player to play videos?

[plb]

Rhythmbox can do everything you listed (and burn audio CDs, which you did not mention), except play videos.

Do you really want your music player to play videos?

He said "media player" :p

[kuja]

I'm quite liking Songbird at the moment, but it's still very buggy- I have trouble with video playback.

Kaffiene doesn't seem to get on with Beryl on my system (kills the WM).

Amarok is great, but REALLY eats resources for about 2 mins after starting it.(For me at least.)

Amarok does take a fair amount of resources, then again, so do many other players. Amarok, for me, takes up about 65MB of RAM while playing, about 50MB idle. Then again, I have the resources to spare, but unlike some other resource demanding apps out there, amarok delivers :)

[Polygon]

songbird is looking very promising, but alas it is only beta right now and we still have to wait, but it is looking good

[kuja]

I'm quite liking Songbird at the moment, but it's still very buggy- I have trouble with video playback.

Kaffiene doesn't seem to get on with Beryl on my system (kills the WM).

Amarok is great, but REALLY eats resources for about 2 mins after starting it.(For me at least.)
When it crashes or whatnot for you, is it when you attempt video playbacK? If so, try changing the video driver to opengl, or really, anything other than xv.

[TheWizzard]

Amarok is great, but REALLY eats resources for about 2 mins after starting it.(For me at least.)

at startup amarok automatically scans the folders with your music files. just diable automatic scanning.

i use amarok on an old amd athlon without any resource problem.

[dca]

Thanks for the feedback people. The whole purpose is to dumb down an Ubuntu to the point where no matter what a user (chances are, a user who knows very little about computers in general) decides to do: pop in a CD, pop in a DVD, view a video file, burn a music CD, or etc only one (maybe two) apps will open eliminating any confusion as far as this for that and that for this. I realize I can go into the set-up and change the default apps to open with but their are other reasons on top of the multi-media thing...