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Remove Rythmbox as library player  
Written by ciplogic the 30 Mar 09 at 14:13. Implemented
Rhythmbox remains mainly the same for years. Almost no updates and for sure it did not get the attention that Totem has. But Totem is inefficient of keeping a music library even have a save/load list.

Note: "In March 2009 the current maintainer announced that he would cease development on Rhythmbox after the next 0.12 release. Some bugs will continue to be fixed, but no active development will take place." (Wikipedia) So rhythmbox is dead. (thanks: AndrewLuecke)

What do you think?
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Selected solution (#1): Use Banshee as a default music player or even as video player
Written by ciplogic the 30 Mar 09 at 14:13.
Banshee evolved greately in the last releases: start time, more plugins are around, it works in the most use cases of RythmBox.

The last releases are also capable to see videos, and have a pretty decent organizer. So users may enjoy to have a media music manager (no only radio and mp3 one).

I still think that Banshee cannot replace totem as default player as it does not have support for subtitles (or an obvious way to pick them).

For Mono haters: Ubuntu ships with FSpot, which happens to be a good media library for photos, having a Mono music organizer, may sounds good also. In the meantime, if the change will happen, for 9,10, Mono will probably be at the 2.2 version, so it may make Banshee a bit faster (this is the main theme of Mono 2.2 version)

http://www2.apebox.org/wordpress/rants/74/ - the autor states that will make a win of 6 MB on CD also. Which is great from that switch.
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Selected solution (#2): Use Songbird as a default music player
Written by fukid the 30 Mar 09 at 15:04.
Use Songbird as a default music player
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Selected solution (#3): Bring RB development back
Written by dekaru the 30 Mar 09 at 19:51.
Rhythmbox is simple yet quite effective. With the enhancement and correction of some of its most blunt features, it could easily beat other players who offer too much and aren't quite as usable.
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Selected solution (#5): Library Plugin for Totem
Written by tenplus1 the 31 Mar 09 at 09:29.
Create a plugin for Totem that allows a very simple keyword search on filenames and directories... Can be shown on the Sidebar under Library and this will allow for music AND movie searches (can use preferences to edit searchable extensions like mp3 ogg avi etc. and searchable paths.

Being filename and directory specific this removes the need to read mp3/ogg tags and will scan the searchable paths in under a minute, kinda like WinCUE did for WinAMP...
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Selected solution (#6): Use Exaile by default
Written by Menti the 2 Apr 09 at 20:39.
Songbird has been suggested, Banshee has been suggested... Why not Exaile? It's GTK, it's active, it would need support and development but also the others.
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Selected solution (#7): MPD with GMPC and optional web interface
Written by pasty the 4 Apr 09 at 16:25.
Using the Music Player Daemon would give users a centralised music collection that they can either control locally or from other computers via a web interface or native Linux/OSX/Windows desktop client.

It could also let them log out without stopping the music and also continue playback from the same position after shutting down or rebooting.
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Selected solution (#8): Supports development of Listen
Written by OpenNingia the 14 Apr 09 at 12:13.
From the Home Page: http://www.listen-project.org/

"Listen is an audio player written in Python. Thanks to it, you can easily organize your music collections.

It supports many features such as Podcasts management, browse Shoutcast directory.

It provides a direct access to lyrics, lastfm and wikipedia informations.

It intuitively creates playlists for you by retrieving informations from lastfm and what you most frequently listen to."

Note that Listen is already the default player on XFCE.
Thanks ZuLuuuuuu for noticing.
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Selected solution (#10): Solution #10 : Use Amarok by default
Written by DeAtH89 the 4 Sep 09 at 14:53.
Amarok it's the best music player, Ubuntu can be use Amarok by default.

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Live CD should warn at boot time about Minimum System Requirements not being met  
Written by subharo the 13 Nov 08 at 16:34. New
The Ubuntu installation process could use more idiot-proofing with respect to checking that the Minimum System Requirements are being met BEFORE the end user gets into a frustrating situation that completely "turns them off" from Ubuntu (before they can even install it).

Namely: what if a novice user gets an Ubuntu Desktop install CD, but the Live CD grinds to a painful, eternal stall because there is not enough RAM, or the CPU is too slow?

These users wouldn't know what to do next if their computer froze on them: is their computer broken? Who is to be blamed? Themselves (making a wrong choice)? Their hardware? Ubuntu? Who? Most users haven't got any sort of troubleshooting skills or experience to narrow this down, and could very likely just give up, which would be a shame.

They should be warned about any basic hardware inadequacy BEFORE X windows starts, and they should be gracefully pointed towards doing the right thing if necessary: locating (on the internet), and downloading, and booting from the Alternate Installation CD instead.

A timely, simple script on the Live CD (run at boot time) that checks the current hardware, then prints a helpful text message on the console if necessary (halting further booting) would go a long way to saving these users a lot of frustration!

This relatively simple fix would go a long way towards making Ubuntu more "humane."

Most users installing Ubuntu will by default attempt to install from the Live CD (Desktop version). But for people with older computers that do not meet the Minimum System Requirements, they are currently expected to be technically knowledgeable enough to intelligently choose the right kind of installation CD first: Desktop Version or Alternate Installation CD.

This could be a huge stumbling block to A HUGE NUMBER of potentially new Ubuntu users, who are such novices that:

-they never RTFM, (namely https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements ) and know that they should instead install from the "Alternate Installer." Moreover, these novice users don't even know what RTFM means. It would be prudent to assume that must users DO NOT READ ANY DOCUMENTATION WHATSOEVER before they attempt to use the Live CD.

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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #15593
Written by subharo the 13 Nov 08 at 16:34.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #15593 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

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