Babe: KDE Gets Another Music Player

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Babe: KDE Gets Another Music Player

Not to be confused with the KDE Elisa music player written about just two weeks ago as a new alternative to Juk, Amarok, Cantata, and other KDE music/media player projects, the latest effort is called Babe...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Babe-Music-Player

[cl333r]

And here's the promo video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sUn5yXD6vk

[uid313]

Playlist seems like an concept that is pretty outdated. There is so much potential for services such as Spotify, iTunes and Google Music to offer computed playlists from metadata.

Example, if I have a song, I don't want to add it to my rock playlist and my 80s playlist.
I want to add it to my collection of music that I like.
Then I want the music player to list my music in categories compiled from metadata.
So when I add a song my music collection it appears both under the rock category and the 80s music category.

[aufkrawall]

I usually listen to the same songs for a while and thus don't need anything more than a good, clear playlist.
Might take a look at Babe, but in general I wished people would spend more time programming plugins for DeadBeef (e.g. for a fadeout feature like in foobar2000) than for new players.

Oh, and I btw. totally don't care that DeadBeef's UI is GTK, works and looks fine on Plasma.

[Cape]

Streaming services are cancer.

This said, what's missing from this and every other muskick player, is Video support!

Both Windsor and iStuffs unified video and muskick (and pictures!) on a single app, which makes for a much easier media access. Expecially nowadays that ppl can use YT videos mixed with shtreming services as their way of consuming media, we def need a unified player rather than one that focuses on Musckick alone, so that you can route everything through it and categorize everything more easily.

[Emdek]

Another media player, been there, done that, KDE 5 broke it:

https://store.kde.org/content/show.php/Mini+Player?content=95501

[lumks]

Another media player, been there, done that, KDE 5 broke it:

https://store.kde.org/content/show.php/Mini+Player?content=95501

Not beeing maintained anymore broke it. Plasma5 has nothing to do with it

[Emdek]

@lunks, not entirely true, it cannot be maintained, it needs to be rewritten from scratch, thanks to completely ditching backwards compatibility, which was already done for 4.x.
And seeing what are they doing they will break it all more or less sooner or later. ;-)

[eydee]

Looks very windows 10-ish.

[mike44]

VLC and you never use anything else anymore.