Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 2nd Nov 2007 16:12 UTC, submitted by Rahul
Fedora 8 Release Candidate 3 has been released. "Fedora 8 Release Candidate 3 has been released on the torrent site. Both DVD and Live images have been provided. Unless something goes terribly wrong, these will be the same bits (modulo gpg signed SHA1SUM files) that will go to the mirrors for the final Fedora 8 release." Update: There is an interview up about CodecBuddy's inclusion in Fedora 8 with the two developers behind this feature.
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RE[3]: ok i've installed it
by sbergman27 on Sun 4th Nov 2007 11:46
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Member since:2005-07-24
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anyways, i have read the interview and it explains things quite well about codecbuddy but I still must ask, if Totem is the default 'codecbuddy' application for mp3 playback et al, then why doesnt Totem open the mp3 by default (instead of rhythmbox)
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That's a good question... for a number of reasons. While Gnome is my favorite DE, and I mostly like Gnome apps, I've found that Rhythmbox never fails to disappoint. A music player that's been in development for years which doesn't understand .pls files? No thanks! For all their limitations, XMMS and Totem are better music players.
RE[4]: ok i've installed it
by Wrawrat on Sun 4th Nov 2007 19:04
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Member since:2005-06-30
I don't think Rhythmbox was designed to play lists or files here and there, but rather for dealing with a well managed (fully tagged & everything) music library. On that aspect, it's doing an adequate job, although it could have better tagging or VFS support. As for XMMS, it's okay, as long as your needs haven't changed since 2004... 
The interview states that codeina was developed for Totem, hence why RB cannot use it. I'm looking forward for the generic interface for applications, although I'll probably just use the livna repos for codec woes.
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2005-07-06
thanks Rahul, I actually saw the two rhgb updates after posting but was not sure if they resolved the issue or not as it was a firstboot issue.
anyways, i have read the interview and it explains things quite well about codecbuddy but I still must ask, if Totem is the default 'codecbuddy' application for mp3 playback et al, then why doesnt Totem open the mp3 by default (instead of rhythmbox)
I think that will confuse noobs out there, hopefully they'll add the rhythmbox functionality via gstreamer before f8 goes live.
any ideas about why my anaconda-screenshots seem to be invisible, ie: it reports that it's taking them during the installation but once done they are no where to be found.
cheers
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