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Free Software's new audio heir apparent

Submitted by Uraeus on Wed, 2004-05-05 06:34. Gnome Multimedia

NewsForge has a nice review of Rhythmbox, the popular GNOME music player and manager. If you don't know Rhythmbox already read the article and maybe it will get you interested in trying it out.

Re: Free Software's new audio heir apparent

Submitted by Tyr_7BE on Fri, 2004-05-07 14:42.

Slow....not for me. The response is quite reasonable actually.

I don't know about memory, though I've heard that's a problem for mono apps. Let's hope they get that hashed out by 1.0. This IS 0.3x software, you know.

Dependency list: Yeah so what? In order to use Rhythmbox you have to have freaking GNOME installed! If it was written in python, you'd need python. For perl, you'd need perl. You simply can't go dismissing products because they depend on things. If everything were stand-alone, we wouldn't have the wicked multitude of frameworks we have today. Also, this dependency list is the same as other software products that use gtk#/mono. You install it once, and then you install your apps (and the number that need mono is growing every day). Besides, it's unlikely that another ~50 megs or so is going to make much of a difference in this $1 1 GB age. I will no longer accept this argument from the mono naysayers. If you're developing embedded applications, then maybe mono isn't for you. Muine is for desktops, and those of us with machines produced later than 1995 enjoy it very much thank you.

Really, this just sounds more like unfounded whining about mono.

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