{"id":121,"date":"2007-12-28T14:37:10","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T12:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=121"},"modified":"2007-12-28T14:37:10","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T12:37:10","slug":"rhythmbox-in-mint-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Rhythmbox in Mint 5?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, first of all&#8230; since we&#8217;re moving to a 6 month release cycle, shall we start calling Mint 5.0 &#8220;Mint 5&#8221;? What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>Rhythmbox made huge progress and the reasons Amarok was chosen by Linux Mint as the default music player could now also apply to it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s simpler to use than Amarok and it integrates better with Gnome. It&#8217;s also much smaller and only uses 12.2MB as compared to 144MB for Amarok. Switching to Rhythmbox could free up a lot of space on the CD and let us include more software within the default selection.<\/p>\n<p>The main reason why Amarok was preferred to other players was because it was feature-rich but Rhythmbox seems to catch up and provides the following features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Collection with automatic detection<\/li>\n<li>Ipod support<\/li>\n<li>Magnatune, Last.fm and Jamendo integration<\/li>\n<li>CD Player<\/li>\n<li>Notifications<\/li>\n<li>Visualizations<\/li>\n<li>Album artwork and lyrics downloaded from the Internet<\/li>\n<li>Podcasts<\/li>\n<li>Play count and rating system<\/li>\n<li>Dynamic playlists<\/li>\n<li>Internet radio<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s not as smart as Amarok and doesn&#8217;t come with its intelligent &#8220;context&#8221; but it provides all the important features you would expect from a rich music player and with a much simpler interface.<\/p>\n<p>By the time we&#8217;re finalizing Mint 5, Amarok 2.0 should be out and it might be an entire new story. So we can&#8217;t say for sure which player will be there by default in the next release of Linux Mint, but as true as Amarok didn&#8217;t have any real alternatives by the past, this is not the case anymore and we&#8217;ll keep a close eye on its competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, first of all&#8230; since we&#8217;re moving to a 6 month release cycle, shall we start calling Mint 5.0 &#8220;Mint 5&#8221;? What do you think? Rhythmbox made huge progress and the reasons Amarok was chosen by Linux Mint as the default music player could now also apply to it. It&#8217;s simpler to use than Amarok [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}