New music player proposal

[Ryan Porter]

>Hi lads,

>I've been using Lubuntu for some time now, but the first thing I always do
>after installing Lubuntu, is get rid of Audacious, and install GMPC (Gnome
>Music Player Client, it does not depend on Gnome (any more)).
>GMPC is fully featured, and praised for it's low resource usage, also on
>playlists with over a million songs.
>GMPC is using a plugin system, so not all functionality is obligatory, if
>you don't use it, just turn it off!
>
>I would like to propose to get rid of Audacious, and make GMPC the default
>music player, as it is a more fully featured music player than Audacious,
>in my opinion.
>
>Some facts about GMPC:
>
>- Website: www.gmpclient.org
>- In continuous development since 2003
>- Depends on the great Music Player Daemon
>- Automatic album art search, lyrics search, artist info.
>- Multimedia keys
>- Dynamic playlists (searches similar music based on Last.FM searches)
>- Jamendo & Magnatune music browser
>- Album View
>- Metadata Browser
>+ a lot more.
>
>I would love to hear your opinions, and hope you are with me here!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Timothy Beemster

I prefer Clementine. It works very well (even on slower compueters like
mine) and doesn't look too bad either. The looks of GMPC don't appeal to
me, personally.

I saw a few other messages regarding JACK compatibility... If Lubuntu
wants to be newbie-friendly (especially for Windoze users who are
transitioning to Linux) then such a feature is not necessarily a plus.
Those of us who are into music production will install our own favorite
players (even if the default works, not all musicians will go with it -
we all have our favorites), while the basic, vanilla Lubuntu (what comes
right off the installation CD) remains best for the non-nerdy/geeky
types.

Ryan