Rhythmbox can't play some of my tracks, it would seems, while XMMS does. For two things both described as "music players", I think that I can draw a fairly objective, if rather simplistic comparison. That's what I'd call a "baseline, nominal functionality" for a music player.
Then, after that, there's other stuff, which is also important, and will make me pick between two music players, that, say, can actually play my music. The next part is stuff that I can notice with my ears only, because, to be fair, my music player isn't even visible to me most of the time. So gapless playback, say, that's cool. Clever IMMS type shuffle, that's cool.
I'd also like some clever features, such as watermark input file buffering (buffer up to a certain high watermark amount, but when it's reached, do not read anything until the low watermark minimal amount is reached, then read as much as possible again to the high watermark, possibly across multiple tracks), so that my laptop's hard drive can spin down as much as possible. iPods do that, but I don't know of any workstation player that does. Oh well.
But really, all my files come from the same ripper and encoder, ripped from my own CDs, and I'd have directories where there was just one file it didn't want to import. WTF?
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Then, after that, there's other stuff, which is also important, and will make me pick between two music players, that, say, can actually play my music. The next part is stuff that I can notice with my ears only, because, to be fair, my music player isn't even visible to me most of the time. So gapless playback, say, that's cool. Clever IMMS type shuffle, that's cool.
I'd also like some clever features, such as watermark input file buffering (buffer up to a certain high watermark amount, but when it's reached, do not read anything until the low watermark minimal amount is reached, then read as much as possible again to the high watermark, possibly across multiple tracks), so that my laptop's hard drive can spin down as much as possible. iPods do that, but I don't know of any workstation player that does. Oh well.
But really, all my files come from the same ripper and encoder, ripped from my own CDs, and I'd have directories where there was just one file it didn't want to import. WTF?