Ubuntu's Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 Released

Posted Dec 2, 2011 14:45 UTC (Fri) by sce (subscriber, #65433)
Parent article: Ubuntu's Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 Released

From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/ReleaseNotes (11.04):

Banshee 2.0 has replaced Rhythmbox is the standard music player, and has now been integrated into the sound menu.

From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/TechnicalOverview/Alpha1 (12.04):

The default music player has been switched to Rhythmbox.

Oh well :-)

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Ubuntu's Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 Released

Posted Dec 2, 2011 21:35 UTC (Fri) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link] (3 responses)

Bad decisions. We all make them.

The key is what you do afterwards.

Ubuntu's Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 Released

Posted Dec 4, 2011 9:19 UTC (Sun) by Pawlerson (guest, #74136) [Link] (2 responses)

Banshee is a terribly unstable player. Rhythmbox is much more better in this case, but its interface begs for improvement. Did they get rid off tomboy and entire mono, too?

Ubuntu's Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 Released

Posted Dec 8, 2011 6:16 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

They didn't get rid of anything but IIRC, no Mono apps are there by default starting this release.

Ubuntu's Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 Released

Posted Dec 8, 2011 7:14 UTC (Thu) by bloopletech (guest, #71203) [Link]

Actually, I have a lot of music (~80GB worth) and I found rythmbox very crashy. I have found banshee to be a lot more stable.

But I'm not really fussed either way; they're both good (although I hope the crashes in rythmbox get fixed for those who still use it).

I know this is flamebait, but I think the complaints about mono are some of the most fatuous arguments I've seen in recent times. At first when I realised banshee was a .NET/mono app I thought "OMG!". But I later realised that disliking it because the language/runtime is based originally on an MS product is silly. Either the app is good or it isn't.

Ubuntu's Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 Released

Posted Dec 2, 2011 21:43 UTC (Fri) by HenrikH (subscriber, #31152) [Link]

On the other hand it you go from 10.04LTS to 12.04LTS there will be no change of default music player. I think that is more important for Ubuntu.