PulseAudio is not working out of the box... what is so hard to understand here? More and more people are complaining about it, and about the problems that PulseAudio is creating to other programs ex. Skype...

PulseAudio makes Ubuntu, and Linux new users go away, and return to MS Windows... That`s not possible, friends...

I think that ubuntu should provide an easy way to listen your devices, for example a mic and all line in devices. I have tried to do that in pangolin and it was imposible. many users suggest to download jackd and make a connection. that's unnaceptable.

There should be an equalizer in ryhthmbox music player so that everyone can set the sound-output for his personal needs.

Maybe create some default-settings like rock, metal, jazz, classic ...

Songbird http://getsongbird.com/ is for me and many more the preferred audio player in Ubuntu. It is build upon Mozilla's XUL framework and offers plenty of useful add-ons. Because it is cross platform, one can also use it on Windows, Mac OS-X, Android, etc. Perfect when you have or want to work on multiple platforms.

However, Songbird has terminated official support for the Linux build http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2010/04/02/songbird-singing-a-new-tune/ Nevertheless it is possible to install and use it on Linux via this package http://www.getdeb.net/updates/Ubuntu/10.10/?q=songbird or by building it yourself from source.

Also a port was made especially for Linux called Nightingale http://getnightingale.com/ but that project has stalled.

Thus, many users are stuck with an old version or Songbird with an uncertain future. Do they have to start looking at (yet) another audio player? Will they be able to migrate ratings, album art, play lists and play history which are not stored in ID3 tags? Will they loose their precious collection that took so long to organise?

The latter being non-trivial and task for experienced programmers as I experienced migrating from Amarok to Songbird. PS I due like Amarok but don't want KDE... no offence intended.

The idea is to have Ubuntu offer a solution for this situation.

I would like there to be a "special" section in an media player (I don't really care which one) which has some special support for audio books. The features that I am thinking of...

1) A separate section so that they have their own organization as well as not in the shuffle queue of music files.

2) Save the current play location for each of the files so you can return to your location in the book even after listening to something else.

3) Extending Ogg Vorbis media files so they support audio book specific meta-data. For example the time stamp location for each chapter in the book, Read by, etc)

4) Ripping into a single file, or perhaps treating a series of audio files as a single source.

Perhaps some of this applies to audiobooks as well.

It should be "multimedia player" or "audio/video player" or "media player" (as mrdoob proposed).
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Puisque Totem est le lecteur audio par défaut, pourquoi s'appelle-t-il "lecteur vidéo" ?
Ça devrait être "lecteur multimédia" ou "lecteur audio/vidéo", ...

Well e.g. if I has watched a video with sound on youtube , and then leaves youtube and then tries to play an audio file in vlc , then it won't play? Only if i kill the firefox process!

The same problem occurs if i go the other way around (first vlc = ok, then firefox wont play if i dont kill vlc)

Fix this!

Abadie.jo is an audio format who models the sound.
My work is here :
http://www.letime.net/legere/
This format can be read by Audio linux a electronics card audio to make.

It's the year 2009, why are we still troubleshooting audio recording problems!? For nearly 15 years, assuming you have the right driver installed, recording some audio in Windows has been as simple as firing up sndrec32.exe and hitting record. There's little to no messing around with config to get it working, no ALSA vs Pulse, no choice of 3 different mixers, it just works.

While I'm sure many of you record audio out of the box I have had nothing but trouble getting audacity (the main open source audio editor) to record and edit sound without crashing in Ubuntu, on several machines, on both HArdy and Jaunty. It seems from a brief google hundreds of other people also struggle with this on a daily basis. This is something I had no problem doing back on Windows 98 over a decade ago, it makes the Ubuntu desktop look really bad that we haven't got this together on the cusp of the second decade of the 21st century!

It has come to my attention ( so called blockers can be found at http://pastebin.com/m39042b41 ) that there are plans to move from Rhythmbox to Banshee in either "Karmic Koala" or "Lame Llama"

Let me show strong opposition. Regardless of the arguable yet significant issues both legal and practical with the mere inclusion of Mono apps in the default (I personally think the best path is to get rid of these apps from the default, not to add more) There's also another issue... I like Rhythmbox .

It is not just for technical issues such as "Banshee uses twice as much memory as Rhythmbox" It is also because of the cleaner interface and that in many ways it follows the ubuntu philosophy much better. Regardless, I do not think I a am alone, as noticeable in Idea #18932 There's strong opposition to switching from this app. Instead, what the community wants is that ubuntu sticks to rhythmbox and keep improving it.

It is a little frightening that these decisions are being taken out of artificial advantages such as theorically saving 6.1 MB, The Mono runtime itself adds to much heavier space requirements than Rhythmbox.

PS: What's the message Canonical would be giving to the world if we need MS technology even for basic apps such as music libraries? I mean, really...