Talk:Features/BansheeAsDefaultMediaplayer

FESCo Concerns

• Has this feature been ran past the Desktop team? If not, it should be before going to FESCo. - Brian Pepple

• • That was not mentioned as a required step for feature proposal so no. I have sent a mail to the SIG mailing list requesting comments. - David Nielsen

• • Deciding the default applications for the desktop falls under the scope of the Desktop team, so they should sign-off on the feature before it comes to FESCo like it has the past with Empathy & swfdec-mozilla. This requirement should probably be put in the feature process if it isn't already. - Brian Pepple

Rhythmbox to Banshee migration

I've created a Rhythmbox database importer which is committed in upstream Banshee an should be released with 1.6. It includes songs, podcasts and playlists. -- Paul Lange

- Excellent, if 1.6 is not released by the time the feature freeze is in place can I get you to backport it to give our users this funtionality in the version we ship at release should the feature be accepted? - David Nielsen

FUD

One upstream developer has mentioned that there are some limitations to the current Rhythmbox architecture. Nobody has ever mentioned that development would be stopped. Given that there are 3 other maintainers for the program, and a lot of contributors, it would be far from dead. Bastien Nocera

Furthermore, I'll take offence to Banshee saying it has a history of stability. Given that I've been able to make it crash on a number of occasions, and without too much work, I'll refute that fact. It would also imply that Rhythmbox is crashy, which puts my skills as an upstream developer and a downstream maintainer of the project into question.

Features

Rhythmbox does have:

• Visual effects
• An integrated CD importer and player, which uses the non-deprecated libmusicbrainz3