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Linked by Kroc Camen on Thu 4th Dec 2008 18:20 UTC

Songbird is a new open-source music player that has this week landed at 1.0. Songbird is described as a "web player"- a music player for this modern, connected era. It blends the web-rendering core of Firefox (Gecko), with the media capabilities of GStreamer- a cross-platform, open-source media playback engine.

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RE[2]: iTunes for Linux

by Ethyriel on Fri 5th Dec 2008 06:46 UTC in reply to "RE: iTunes for Linux"

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2005-07-07

Check out MPD with Sonata, it's actually usable.

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RE[3]: iTunes for Linux

by abraxas on Fri 5th Dec 2008 17:39 in reply to "RE[2]: iTunes for Linux"

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2005-07-07

Are you inferring that Banshee isn't usable? For me it is the best media player available bar none. Sonata kind of looks like a rip off of Muine which Banshee can now emulate with Muinshee.

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RE[4]: iTunes for Linux

by Ethyriel on Fri 5th Dec 2008 17:53 in reply to "RE[3]: iTunes for Linux"

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2005-07-07

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. Banshee has an ill thought out interface that attempts to do far too much in a single, untabbed window, and too much overall (video? statistics? blech!) Amarok, iTunes, Rhythmbox... I've never understood how anyone can stand these huge windows dedicated to such a simple task as playing music.

Sonata shares a passing resemblance with Muine, but the functionality is far different because Muine forces you to open new windows for a lot of basic tasks which Sonata does not.

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