The Grumpy Editor's guide to music managers [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's guide to music managers

Posted Nov 28, 2005 18:06 UTC (Mon) by piman (subscriber, #8957)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to music managers

Apparently you missed the mechanism to switch browsers in Quod Libet. The "View" menu lets you change to any of the browsing methods (there are 6 in the latest version) in the main window, with the player controls. The Music menu lets you open separate browsers. One of the alternate browsers is the more traditional "playlist" view where you can drag songs around and into separate lists.

More information is available at http://www.sacredchao.net/quodlibet/wiki/Guide/Browsers -- we're definitely interested in feedback if something was nonobvious.

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The Grumpy Editor's guide to music managers

Posted Nov 29, 2005 1:37 UTC (Tue) by piman (subscriber, #8957) [Link]

Another developer point out to me that this appears to be a review of Quod Libet 0.13, which is 2.5 months old -- subsequent versions added Internet radio, a new playlist editor, and many other things.

Jon and anyone else, if (as the Banshee review suggests) you're running Ubuntu, you may want to grab 0.15 from the dapper repository. It should install fine.

All four media players mentioned in this article see fast development -- even Rhythmbox, which today released a version with CD and Podcast support. So unfortunately this probably isn't a very useful comparison overall.