Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 23, 2006 03:29 AM
After the initial years of music players looking just about anything (from the ugly first Windows' media player to "real" hi-fi equipment), now everyone seems to agree that the iTunes way is THE way to go.
Excuse me while I rant. No! iTunes and clones (like Banshee) are WAY cluttered to me. My guess is that somewhere along the way, some people will get tired of these kind of interfaces. Too big, too bulky, not really THAT powerful. The Winamp paradigm usually works right for me, along with a SEPARATE, power-user oriented library manager (in the Windows world, check The Godfather at <a href="http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/),l" title="otenet.gr">http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/),l</a otenet.gr> which is, among other things, scriptable.
For a quite different approach, check out <a href="http://www.giantdisc.org./" title="www.giantdisc.org">http://www.giantdisc.org./</a www.giantdisc.org> I know this is something completely different, but after a while of being fed with the "iPod is the way to go" craze, I find that the interface for this project is way more advanced that iPod's approach.
Anyway, I dislike bulky, non-flexible song managers like these, and prefer something more flexible. Hope XMMS2 is here soon.
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Yet another iTunes clone...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 23, 2006 03:29 AMExcuse me while I rant. No! iTunes and clones (like Banshee) are WAY cluttered to me. My guess is that somewhere along the way, some people will get tired of these kind of interfaces. Too big, too bulky, not really THAT powerful. The Winamp paradigm usually works right for me, along with a SEPARATE, power-user oriented library manager (in the Windows world, check The Godfather at <a href="http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/),l" title="otenet.gr">http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/),l</a otenet.gr> which is, among other things, scriptable.
For a quite different approach, check out <a href="http://www.giantdisc.org./" title="www.giantdisc.org">http://www.giantdisc.org./</a www.giantdisc.org> I know this is something completely different, but after a while of being fed with the "iPod is the way to go" craze, I find that the interface for this project is way more advanced that iPod's approach.
Anyway, I dislike bulky, non-flexible song managers like these, and prefer something more flexible. Hope XMMS2 is here soon.
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