Do You Want Rhythmbox or Banshee in Ubuntu 12.04?

a mi me gusta mas bandshee solo que se pongan pilas sus desarrolladores para mejorarlo pues es algo intuitivo para mi muy bueno.. no usé mucho el ritmbox

Rhythmbox +1

just only VLC satistified for me

vlc is all i need for music and video

vlc is all I need for music and video

Rhythmbox

Yes, Rhythmbox is better, Banshee just stop when listening internet radio and it doesn't start over. I've replaced it in my Ubuntu too.

banshee

Rythymbox

banshee! i would love to have to start much faster than it does currently!

finally the ubuntu team have realised, Rhythmbox was best on that time and it is even better now. why they have replaced it with Banshee..well if u ask me which one i prefer.. i ll vote for Rhythmbox

Banshee is not that bad Rhythmbox is great but why not just stick with VLC which JUST WORKS compare to both of them...

VLC contains proprietary codecs built in and as such can't and wont ever be made a default application in its default form.

100% Rhythmbox
I've replaced Banshee with it in Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot).

Banshee has more features and should remain the default music player in Ubuntu.

rhythmbox does an excellent work, no doubts my favourite

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Yes Rhythmbox is lighter and faster........

Personally I find Amarok (old one) most comfortable, however as Amarok is not part of Gnome / Unity ecosystem, it can perhaps never befome default player of Ubuntu 12.04. Among Rhythmbox and Banshee, I would prefer Rhythmbox because of its faster response and less issues of crashing

Clementine player is by far the best player. It can play .pls, .m3u files.

Personally, I always install the modified version of it called Rhythm-e. That improves the aged UI and adds the album cover view that all modern music players subscribe to. With those added to Rhythmbox, it's pretty much flawless.

Rhythmbox just works my * ! It crashes when you shift input source from internet radio to files or CD's and vice versa. It has features fit for the last century compared to other players. I vote for Clementine it's the most stable Linux audioplayer I've ever tried

Rhythmbox

Audacious is sufficient for listening to music but it would absolutely perfect if it had music stores integrated

Rhythmbox +1

I vote to get rid of both by default and let users choose which to install - who needs the bloat. And if vlc is installed, then I don't need either Banshee nor Rhythmbox.

Rhythmbox

Rhythmbox or Banshee it doesn't matter. Both need a better equalizer. Most of the settings are very tinny and need more punch. This is why I continue to use Amarok.

+1 for Rhythmbox!

I want Rhythmbox of course!

Rhythmbox light? hahahaha

banshee

Rhythmbox is completely useless. Banshee is not.

What, you may well ask, is the reason for such an extreme statement? I have one word for you: equalizer!

Banshee, like iTunes, has an equalizer. That means that you can adjust the sound "levels" to draw out the subtle color and texture of your music, regardless of what kinds of speakers its playing through. People can tell when it sounds too "flat," or if the lows are accented so as to make small speakers and headphones crackle.

A music player with an equalizer can deliver the listening experience that users have come to expect. This is because nearly everyone has used an iPod or iTunes, and so are used to the sound optimization of the equalizer, whether they know it or not.

Do not make the assumption that this won't matter to most people. Please!

there are many worrying aspects of this:
1) rhythmbox REGULARLY changes their API stranding add-ons, for example the pitch/speed changer that is essential for music practice and transcription
2) rhythmbox is highly unstable, on a collection of only 20,000 files I am unable to make it run for more than a few days without crashing or jamming, whereas Banshee is highly stable and on the same modest hardware will run unattended for MONTHS
3) as noted by others, an EQ is essential
4) also absolutely essential is the Now Playing feature of Banshee that replaces the screen saver with a track info display.

On the downside:
1) Banshee is coded in Mono, which makes creating plugins unnecessarily cumbersome; what is so wrong with an open API?
2) the random-number algorithm is useless
3) the DAAP support in Banshee does not allow collection sharing
4) Banshee only supports Last.FM and does not have an open API to other service plugins such as libre.fm
5) when banshee encounters a file it "can't" play, such as a text file, it halts with the useless plea for a plugin search; THERE ARE NO MORE PLUGINS so there is no need to launch the pointless search.

Clearly either program could and should be made feature-complete and become the standard, but I think it is an embarrassment to the Ubuntu community that something so basic as a stable mp3 player should be lacking in the kit; Apple figured it out, why can't we? Perhaps if we concentrated our talents on one of the two for a while, we could solve some of the more pressing stability and interface issues from which the OTHER project, because they are Open Source, could benefit directly?