Linux @programming.dev Nemeski @lemm.ee 4 days ago

GNOME 48 Desktop Introducing An Official Audio Player: Decibels

www.phoronix.com GNOME 48 Desktop Introducing An Official Audio Player: Decibels

Gnome @discuss.tchncs.de petsoi @discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago

www.phoronix.com /news/GNOME-48-Decibels-Audio-Player

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Can we stop using completely ambiguous and ungooglable names for software? Granted, Teams is still the worst offender.
Yay, another one.

Seriously, why do we need 100+ different audio players?
- Don't worry, COSMIC will make (or probably already has made) one too.
  
  Anti Commercial-AI license
vlc is always one of the first things I install on any machine of any OS. Who even uses the built in media player?
- Imho, mpv is better. It has better support for AV1, is faster, and has no problems with audio, but VLC has a better interface with more options. I made the transition from VLC to MPV a few months ago and don't regret it.
That's neat but can we fix the issue wear gnome crashes with full VRAM? KDE doesn't. Same set up
- Have you submitted a bug report?
  
  I want to but don't know how or what commands to run to see what the issue exactly is. But I've tested on my 1650 and my Rx 5500. If you have 4GB of VRAM and try to game gnome does not like that. On KDE it will slow to a crawl but won't crash.
- I think this is a general Linux problem. My laptop hard reboots, although it hasn't since I massively upped the swap.
  
  This is different. I'm talking about video memory. But yeah systemd oomd is shite. It works sometimes, when it does it takes a while of waiting before it does anything
So their video player should be named "Nits".
It looks very underwhelming. Do Linux Desktop Devs ever actually managed a collection/playlists or even listen to music on their machines?
- Decibels seems to be an audio player to playback individual files, like maybe a voice memo or single music track. I personally use Gapless when I want to play music with shuffle and playlists.
- In case you didn't know, nowadays GNOME goes for maximum simplicity.
  
  Which is kind of ironic given that the gnome desktop has a bit of a learning curve.
I'm sure it's very nice but tying an audio player app, or a text editor, an rss reader, or any other such tool to one specific desktop environment is an unbearably stupid idea and makes me think that both Gnome and KDE have made a seriously wrong turn somewhere.
- It's not tied to Gnome, you can install it wherever you want. https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.Decibels
  
  I was annoyed that Gnome didn't have a very basic "sound file player", everything polished wanted to be something more, like support for music libraries, etc. I downloaded a single wav file, I want to listen what's in it, there was no perfect app for that.
  
  Decibels has already existed for ages. I use it as my default audio player for random sound files and Gapless for albums
  
  "It's not tied to Gnome"
  
  ID Branch Op Remote Download 1. org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 24.08 i flathub < 156.3 MB 2. org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 24.08extra i flathub < 156.3 MB 3. org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 2.4.1 i flathub < 976.5 kB 4. org.gnome.Decibels.Locale stable i flathub < 25.9 kB (partial) 5. org.gnome.Platform.Locale 47 i flathub < 386.5 MB (partial) 6. org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Greybird 3.22 i flathub < 91.8 kB 7. org.gnome.Platform 47 i flathub < 384.1 MB 8. org.gnome.Decibels stable i flathub < 144.2 kB Proceed with these changes to the user installation? [Y/n]:
  
  That's a lot of megabytes for a simple audio player.

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