The Banshee Music Management and Playback Utility [LWN.net]

The Banshee Music Management and Playback Utility

Posted Mar 20, 2008 17:00 UTC (Thu) by debacle (subscriber, #7114)
In reply to: The Banshee Music Management and Playback Utility by BenHutchings
Parent article: The Banshee Music Management and Playback Utility

With banshee you don't need to spend much money on music, because the HD is already filled
with mono packages:

# apt-get install banshee
...
Need to get 15.3MB of archives.
After this operation, 47.9MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

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The Banshee Music Management and Playback Utility

Posted Mar 24, 2008 8:46 UTC (Mon) by deleteme (subscriber, #49633) [Link]

Oooh flamebait... But the same can be said about the GNOME or KDE musicplayers, so I think I
can spend 1.2 cents on the storage costs of a good musicplayer.

The Banshee Music Management and Playback Utility

Posted Mar 27, 2008 16:57 UTC (Thu) by ketilmalde (guest, #18719) [Link]

On my X-less server install:

# apt-get install banshee
  :
0 upgraded, 153 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 34.3MB/34.3MB of archives.
After unpacking 150MB of additional disk space will be used.

# apt-get install amarok
  :
0 upgraded, 180 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 65.1MB/65.1MB of archives.
After unpacking 219MB of additional disk space will be used.

# apt-get install rhythmbox
  :
0 upgraded, 125 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 31.5MB/31.5MB of archives.
After unpacking 148MB of additional disk space will be used.

# apt-get install mpg123
  :
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 148kB of archives.
After unpacking 406kB of additional disk space will be used.

-k

The Banshee Music Management and Playback Utility

Posted Mar 28, 2008 21:45 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Hah, try installing EMMS. It'll pull in all of Emacs! Look at that bloat!

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