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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 Anonymous George on Sat, 2004-05-08 17:54.

I'm only organizing my music by album and artist, so muine works great for me.

If I only needed to organize music by album and artist, I could just use folders. I could probably even get by with a command-line player. "play artist/album/track". (This does not speak highly of Muine's utility.)

The Vorbis comment spec (used by Ogg, FLAC, etc.) is incredibly rich. I rather like taking advantage of this fact to make finding the music I want easier. Hopefully Rhythmbox will become even better in this area.

Right now, I can search my music by genre, artist, album, title. I want to be able to search on any field -- show me all the symphonies performed by Seiji Ozawa, show me every all the Wagner that Anne Evans sang, and do I have any pieces with Lucia Popp and Christa Ludwig together? (So far, it can't even display the performer's names, but the data is there, and it would be really easy to add to Automatic Playlists, so maybe next version...)

The iTunes/Rhythmbox design is good because newcomers can figure out how to use it right away, and there are also very powerful features which experts love.

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