Alternative to amaroK.

        For some reason, amaroK loves to crash on my machine. It's usually
only up for a few hours, tops. Tony Arkles pointed me at Rhythmbox,
which is a great little Gnome application for managing music. Big
things I like about it so far: it has very much the iTunes interface,
and it also will pop right into my KDE tray icon slot.

The default for gstreamer is ESD, so you need to run:
  gstreamer-properties

and set the output to ALSA (I don't know why that's not the default, but
...). It also supports ARTS if you want to mesh with KDE better.

So far no crashes in rhythmbox, although I don't know why the
gstreamer-properties isn't linked into the application proper (for
output settings).
Received on Sat May 13 15:47:05 2006