Media Player Nightingale Reaches 1.12.1; First Release Since Songbird

ilikenwf writes "The Nightingale developers have announced version 1.12.1 of the media player, forked from the now defunct Songbird (RIP). Improvements include a new localization infrastructure, enhanced stability, battery drain fixes for OS X, Unity integration fixes, libnotify integration, new first run pages, and more (Release Notes). If you already use Nightingale, the automatic update feature should have notified you of the release. If not, get the new version here."

Comments

Linux sorely needs a decent media player

[vm]

I didn't realize there was a Linux port of this -- can't wait to try it as everything I've tried to date has been less than desirable in terms of complete, usable functionality that I'd expect of a mature application.

Re:Linux sorely needs a decent media player

[Anonymous Coward]

I personally like to use MPD/MPC (gmpd).

It covers all my usage scenarios, is very reliable and can hold vastly more music while still being quick than any other mediaplayer I know off.

It can take a minute or 2 to setup, but after that, its wonderful.

Re:update feature, and eye candy

[Nemyst]

If you don't see the point of a proper music player, then you're not targeted by proper music players anyway. I couldn't fathom using the default OS-provided options. This is like someone saying that nano is just fine as a primary text editor or that IE6 was a perfectly capable web browser.

Re:Best example in a long time

[petes_PoV]

Why is what bad? The point that thousands of hours went into developing this software, but not a single minute into making it easy for a Linux user to work out how to run the wretched thing?

Just to be clear THAT'S THE PROBLEM.