HXBC.us - 竹難月金

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> I've been using [Quodlibet](http://www.sacredchao.net/quodlibet) to play my music for more than a day now. Normally I don't care much about music players, since most of the time I just click on the "Play" button and hide it. However Rhythmbox has been crashing a bit too much for me since I upgraded to the yet-to-be-released Ubuntu Dapper. Quodlibet is also gstreamer-based, and unlike rhythmbox, is written in python. It's a little tricky to install it at a place other than /, but it can be done.
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> Also found out about [ReplayGain](http://replaygain.hydrogenaudio.org/), which is a mechanism that Quodlibet uses to do volume normalization a la iTunes. I've been looking for a way to do that under Linux forever, without knowing that Rhythmbox supports it. A couple minutes in #quodlibet and some googling tells me that I need to use other programs, for example [`metaflac`](http://flac.sourceforge.net/), to generate the ReplayGain tags that Quodlibet and Rhythmbox use to adjust the volume.
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> The version of Rhythmbox in Dapper also let me find out how crappy [EasyTag](http://easytag.sourceforge.net/) is when dealing with UTF-8 tags, but Quodlibet can edit tags too, so EasyTag is gone from my computer.
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> I do lose the nice notification bubbles that Rhythmbox shows whenever a song is played, but I can live without those.