Add Guaydeque to Linux Lite

[eightbit]

I've been messing with Spotify for the past two days and it is really cool. I just don't know if I am so much into it to spend $9.99 a month on a streaming music service I wish free accounts worked in Tomahawk. Who knows, I might just get the account anyway. Otherwise, Tomahawk seems to do an awesome job just being a music player. The only things I miss are the smart play feature in Guaydeque (if you have a large local collection this feature is awesome) and lyric viewing (unless I missed that?)

[Jim The Tyreman]

Well, Tomahawk installed easy, first run my CPU went up to 95% for about 30 seconds then settled. CPU hovered around 15% while scanning my music collection, all 36362 files found! It even accuratley displayed my recently purcahsed CD's too.

Being from the Clementine stable, it seems a bit too basic, for instance I can't adjust EQ? The library "management" side of things seems a bit weak?

The Spotify intergartion works VERY well and is implemented VERY well in Tomahawk, better than in Clementine BUT Clementine for me handles "MY" collection better.

Eightbit, I did use Guaydeque for a few months in my early linux days, really liked the interface, BUT Clementine won me over with it's cross platform and Spotify.

If it were my choice, I'd go Clementine, it's more of a "manager" and CAN do Spotify (Premium) and is cross platform!

There you go, my 10p worth, sorry for the delay in coming back to you, family stuff has a habit of getting in the way!!

[eightbit]

I think you are right about Tomahawk being too basic. And, after using it from a while, I realized it has some issues with scraping songs from other free services. I dunno.

I still stick with Guaydeque for a few reasons. One is that it is light (like the rest of the system), it scans my 1000+ albums quickly, it saves album covers *directly* to the folder with the music (I have yet to find another player that does this), it has an eq, radio, lyrics, and the most excellent "Smart Play" feature. If you haven't used it, you'll miss it in other players when you do

[tek10]

Guaydeque is ok, but I would much rather see Xnoise or even Exaile come with Linux Lite. Both are light on resources and easy to use.

[valtam]

Looks like Xnoise dev has stopped - http://www.xnoise-media-player.com/ Exaile doesn't look to bad, I'll have to give that a run. Thanks tek10

[eightbit]

Sorry to bump this up, but I think it is a pretty important topic. I have tried Exaile (used to use it years ago actually), Clementine, Tomahawk, and a slew of others. But I keep coming back to Guayadeque for a lot of reasons. It is very light yet has so much functionality. Radio, lyric, the excellent "smart play" feature, downloading of album covers *directly to your album folders* (I STILL cannot find another player that does this!). With LL 2.2 coming, I still want to urge people to investigate this player. It's not very hard to use, and once you know it I think you'll be really impressed.

[Mike]

Guaydeque is ok, but I would much rather see Xnoise or even Exaile come with Linux Lite. Both are light on resources and easy to use.

Exaile is definitely not as light as Guayadeque. 
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