WereKitten said:
Are you familiar with the Gnome/KDE feud? They are the two big options under Linux for desktop environments, and Ubuntu defaults to Gnome. Amarok is beloved by many and offers countless plugins and features, whereas Rythmbox is more bare-bones (thought suited to my needs, ie to have my playlists going while I code and keep my music tagged and ordered). Being a KDE application Amarok might look aestethically and functionally slightly out-of-place in the Gnome environment, though you can theme it to be closer to the rest of the Gnome environment. Plus, it will bring a slight overhead in memory consumption because it will need to load different libraries from the rest of the environment. Unless you are really memory constraint this shouldn't be an issue, though... I liberally mix and match applications from the two parts with no troubles. Other players you might want to look into are banshee and muine. If you like simple and to the point (your pidgin remark), then you might like muine over rythmbox, but amarok will probably feel like overdoing it. |
Well it's true I do like simplicity. I'm converting my MP3 collection to .ogg right now...
I'm gonna give muine a shot, then. Thanks.
And I am not at all familiar with the Gnome/KDE feud, do tell me more.
