The problem here is and let me be clear with this: A MUSIC PLAYER IS NOT AN AUDIO PLAYER. It’s not the same when I want to listen to my music library than just hearing an audio file I downloaded from the internet or found in the system. Decibels as an audio player is excellent, finally there’s an app for this specific use case, even though I use the video player most of the time for that. But an audio player and a music player are not the same and that’s why I hated the new “music player” that ElementaryOS has and other similar applications which don’t even have the concept of albums and call themselves music players
This. Exactly. I don't need a huge library suite application for managing a media library of many thousands of music audio files to be loaded into memory to play a single, tiny audio file i downloaded from Epidemic of Sound or something to edit into a video. It is the application which should open audio files, where as you will still want a separate music media library application to play and organize playlists of music separate from this. On GNOME I use a different app to do exactly this.
The problem here is that Gnome keeps churning out new bloated micro-apps one after the other that have near zero functionality and don't do anything that haven't been done by many apps before. Their main or only feature seems to be being rewritten on libadwaita. I have a hard time naming 2-3 modern Gnome apps that are actually worth using as apps, as in, regardless the window manager you use. I used to like Gedit and Palimpsest and Nautilus etc and used them everywhere, but now I only ever launch Gnome apps on Gnome, and even there most of them are a deadweight because they are instantly replaced by other apps.
I edit a lot of audio, and I love decibels. It isn't a music listening suite. It's fast, clean, and plays audio files. That's it. I have to open a lot of little .wav and .mp3 clips, and immediately jumping to a giant waveform that's easy to scrub through is the only thing I want. A fully featured music player is a massive time waster for this task. They do not serve the same purpose. Both have their place.
I feel like the purpose of this app is to listen to audio files individually which is useful for people like game developers when choosing audio for their game.
I hate how GNOME ecosystem is about reinventing things over and over. Waaay back in GNOME 2 & 3 days, I would use Totem as an audio player for checking out random mp3s and using Rhythmbox to manage by music collection. Today I don't know if whatever Totem's successor is can handle audio files anymore...
GNOME Videos (Formerly known as the Totem project) is no longer in development, but it still has this functionality. Its successor, Showtime, which is still in the GNOME incubator repository on gitlab, also has this functionality, and all of the other functionality GNOME Videos had. Nothing is stopping you from using either-or. There need not be any changes in your workflow in modern GNOME, if you wanted to use it. And GNOME flashback is still an available distribution of the GNOME desktop, so if you like that style better you can use that.
Mfw an audioplayer in development is an application.. that plays audio.. that has issues.. because it isn't finished yet. It's clearly not trying to be the next spotify. People just want a simple app to play audio files without opening their music application. Or even, imagine you have music paused, and you want to listen to an audio file. You have to stop your music completely. It makes total sense what it's trying to do.
Year 3041. Notifications and calendar are completely rewritten with the new version of the ui library, and have lost the ability to be resized along with half the features they used to have
why have an extra app when a music player will do just that too? Do you prefer to go out of your way to open a specific app just to do that instead of double clicking the file?
I'm on nixOS, ran decibles by creating a shell with it (nix shell nixpkgs#decibels) and I can confirm that drag and drop does work on it. I don't use flatpaks at all, and well, stuff like that in the video is why I don't, haha.
I don't like it when an UI gets simplified to a point where i can no longer use the software. Gnome in general seems to be moving in that direction for a while now but it hasn't become a deal breaker yet. You don't need to applefy everything 😞
Not everything needs to be KDEfied either. As a KDE user, I sometimes use GNOME apps simply because, well, it's simple and gets the job done without extra stuff.
I honestly think this is a great audio player. It follows the Unix philosophy of having a single job and doing it correctly. It’s not a music or radio player like Rhythmbox and doesn't have most of it's features, which I believe is what is generating the confusion and hate. What we really need now is an alternative to Rhythmbox or perhaps just a major design overhaul for it. Great work by the developers and a great video. Keep it up!
There was a post ~6 months ago from the Lollypop developers that they are working on a Libadwaita+GTK4 music player. For GTK4+Libadwaita you could try Recordbox.
Tried it out before, it only has the basics of a music player. Does the job sure, but it looks too simple. Also, about your drag and drop issue, you need to allow permissions to it to open directories of your choosing, assuming you're using the Flatpak, using Flatseal.
@@Error8x8 how is an app not having permissions by default something to avoid? I'd rather it be that way. If anything, the experience isn't as polished as in mobile OSes where it'll prompt you whether you want to give it permission as necessary however that's something solveable
So many audio players and none of them can just show all the files and that's it. They overcomplicate audio players or simplify them the point where they become useless.
There's two kinds of "audio players" as you're putting it. 1. audio players 2. music library managers Decibels, is an Audio player. It is a simple application to do exactly the one task of playing a random audio file and nothing else. I think the application you want is a music library manager, which will let you look at all of your music playlists and songs, browsing them to play the music you want.
@@LadyInStem Windows media player that Decibels copies acts as both music player and audio player. You don't have to think and ponder, it just works if you use it on one file, and also works if you use it on multiple files or if you open a playlist.
@@giorgos-4515 Yes, but most people don't like that. Not even most Gnome users. That's why most people install extensions to even be able to use the DE.
That’s true. For me gnome is not usable without extensions that make it behave similar to kde and windows. KDE is way worse though in my opinion. It’s just way too ugly and there is no amount of customization that can make up for it.
I actually really like the new app! It's really just designed as a simple way to play audio files and visually integrate into the Gnome desktop. If people need something with more features, they can download other apps. I'm sure small quirks with Decibels will be ironed out over time.
Big issues in oss development: 1. They choose interpreted languages for things that should be compiled. 2. Not all of the devs actually test their code. 3. Sound playing apps are a big of a mixed bag 4. People won’t improve existing tools, they opt to start over.
@@softwarelivre2389 hmmmmm there must be a browser somewhere (or if you prefer calling it that way, an "engine" like V8) in order for the javascript to be interpreted. If not, how would they do it?
It's been a long time since I've used gnome but from what I remember their own apps are supposed to be the most simple version of that software you can get. No features you wish weren't there. And I always liked having that option on a system. If it could open a play list or have more than one file open that's the most complexity I'd add to it. Remember, totem can't do that. VLC doesn't do it with much of a UI being involved. But that's more reason to do it. Be the app with the minimum features but maybe one that somehow the complex apps don't have.
It uses GStreamer underneath, so the fronten language is of no concern, as it will only display stuff from a library. Also: Drag-and-drop does just not work in flatpaks...
drag and drop not working is an issue with flatpak sandboxing. The app is not allowed to access this path. It will work out of documents and downloaded though.
personally I like decibles. because I perceive gnome as mac os linux version, which as far as I'm aware decibels is much more align with the simplicity and minimalistic ideals that the dev had. though it undeniably still got to more polished. anyway, great video bro
The drag and drop fails probably because it is running in sandbox environment (flatpak) without the permission to access your dragged file location. Try to grant it the permission to your whole system in Flatseal and try again.
I use Rhytmbox and it works well and straight forward, no fuss. As for the appearance, some might say it's not very modern, for me it's just meant to show off all complete list of songs and their details including album covers, any infos, etc. (with a number of add-on functions that are immediately visible and accessible). That's Rhytmbox style and it's good in its own purpose. Likewise regarding Decibels, I think there is a misunderstanding about its function, maybe it is meant for a simple and direct audio player (in a specific purpose that also exists in Windows and even in Mixplorer - Android, for example ~~ maybe the purpose is like that), not for the details of a complete music player. ... And those unimportant dramas are weird, maybe a bit indicative of "mental illness" (including dramas between fanatical distro fans). Not only is it useless, it's sometimes completely unnecessary, irrelevant, and sometimes kind of disgusting and st#pid.
this is fine, a simple baseline audio player , yeah, please, and sure fix the drag-drop and multiple file selection , i know it's a bit of work to have this functionality, but it would be really great , just load up a folder full of files, and play them in the order loaded ... you won't imagine the amount of search and testing that goes into finding a simple audio player
That has nothing to do within the core applications of a desktop environment. This is a specialized app, that should only be fetched from flathub, and it's written in web language, which is the worst choice for efficiency.
I can't seem to like Gnome anything.... why would I want to use restrictive mobile-style apps on my desktop? Also, the color gradients and icons seem like Windows 7. I'll stick with KDE. Also.... Typescript? This is the dystopian future for sure.
Yeah yeah yeah, I get it. I very much dislike gnome too. But at the end of the day, is unix philosophy not to write simple programs that do one thing and do one thing well? This should be part of the file manager, as a preview function kind of like how you can play a file from finder in Mac os
One of the most popular software in the world is MS Excel. Part of the reason why is because it just doesn't blindly adhere to useless software doctrine
Gnome apps are beautiful, but tend to be way too simple for actual use. The only thing that has become rich with features is gnome files, and it is where the most resources on apps should be. They nailed that one. Flatpak is trash. It doesn't follow HFS, which is annoying. Also, many apps are handicapped by their recommended security BS and developers+users eventually loose interest.
I stopped caring about Gnome a long time ago. They have shown time and time again that the only thing they care about is aesthetics, functionality be damned.
7:59 I disagree hardly on this. Yes, developers are free to do whatever they want their software, but if they keep reinventing the wheel over and over again, instead of doing what actually is needed to be done, sooner or later, this "free and open source" sentiment won't buy people anymore. You want to have a flourishing community, where everyone wants to support the free software? Do what the community wants. The major bugs and lacking features should be prioritized to be added. What am I gonna do with a half-baked music player? And even if you do reinvent the wheel, make sure it solves a problem, like giving a better music-player experience, like AIMP on Windows. Try to solve a problem, not solve a solution. Otherwise this "OPEN SOURCE IS THE WAY" sentiment will wither soon.
How is "let the developers work on what they wanna work on" a valid rebuttal? It doesn't at all address the issue. Gnome devs enjoy wasting time and that's a fact.
I wouldn't expect an app named "decibels" would do anything more than what you've shown. I see a lot of potential API expansion by GNOME devs if they decide to develop their own media suite later akin to iTunes or something. I could see API expansion allowing this app to be embedded within other apps or something. I could also see this app being exactly what it is. Nothing more and nothing less as part of GNOME's out-of-the-box feature set. All of those scenarios would indeed be exciting if this weren't GNOME. Yeah, sorry GNOME, you've done well to establish your predisposition for anything you deem "GNOME" and it usually has nothing to do with anything useful to the GUI user space. It's kind of like how Apple approaches everything but without funding. :)
There's a project on the GNOME gitlab called gapless which is a very food music library application, I'm a big fan of it. It essentially replaces Rythmbox on mordern GNOME with libadwaita for me.
Making a fully fledged music player app is quite a complex task, you need a lot to make it happen and with streaming platforms, desktop music players are kind of a dead project, however a desktop environment should have a "music player like" app its beneficial for the overall experience of the desktop environment. Not every person listens to a huge library of music, organized by albums and most people prefer to create their own playlists to listen to a collection of songs either with simple folders or in a format that an app might specify as a playlist, however Decibles looks like quite an early stage thing and that blown out waveform is a bit... weird.
What desktop are you enjoying right now?
gnome!
New app coming ;) haha
Gnome
I came back to Ubuntu last month.
Hyprland Astolfo Rice (Arch btw)
The problem here is and let me be clear with this: A MUSIC PLAYER IS NOT AN AUDIO PLAYER. It’s not the same when I want to listen to my music library than just hearing an audio file I downloaded from the internet or found in the system. Decibels as an audio player is excellent, finally there’s an app for this specific use case, even though I use the video player most of the time for that. But an audio player and a music player are not the same and that’s why I hated the new “music player” that ElementaryOS has and other similar applications which don’t even have the concept of albums and call themselves music players
This. Exactly. I don't need a huge library suite application for managing a media library of many thousands of music audio files to be loaded into memory to play a single, tiny audio file i downloaded from Epidemic of Sound or something to edit into a video. It is the application which should open audio files, where as you will still want a separate music media library application to play and organize playlists of music separate from this. On GNOME I use a different app to do exactly this.
@@lian_drake this made me think, it'd be cool if decibels could be a backend for sushi
The problem here is that Gnome keeps churning out new bloated micro-apps one after the other that have near zero functionality and don't do anything that haven't been done by many apps before. Their main or only feature seems to be being rewritten on libadwaita.
I have a hard time naming 2-3 modern Gnome apps that are actually worth using as apps, as in, regardless the window manager you use.
I used to like Gedit and Palimpsest and Nautilus etc and used them everywhere, but now I only ever launch Gnome apps on Gnome, and even there most of them are a deadweight because they are instantly replaced by other apps.
QuickTime and iTunes are irreplaceable
@@ZaeTalkz And that's why I love Lollypop and VLC
I edit a lot of audio, and I love decibels.
It isn't a music listening suite. It's fast, clean, and plays audio files. That's it.
I have to open a lot of little .wav and .mp3 clips, and immediately jumping to a giant waveform that's easy to scrub through is the only thing I want. A fully featured music player is a massive time waster for this task.
They do not serve the same purpose. Both have their place.
gnome sushi
I feel like the purpose of this app is to listen to audio files individually which is useful for people like game developers when choosing audio for their game.
I hate how GNOME ecosystem is about reinventing things over and over. Waaay back in GNOME 2 & 3 days, I would use Totem as an audio player for checking out random mp3s and using Rhythmbox to manage by music collection. Today I don't know if whatever Totem's successor is can handle audio files anymore...
Totem is still totem
GNOME Videos (Formerly known as the Totem project) is no longer in development, but it still has this functionality. Its successor, Showtime, which is still in the GNOME incubator repository on gitlab, also has this functionality, and all of the other functionality GNOME Videos had. Nothing is stopping you from using either-or. There need not be any changes in your workflow in modern GNOME, if you wanted to use it. And GNOME flashback is still an available distribution of the GNOME desktop, so if you like that style better you can use that.
I pray to god they won't rewrite gparted to use libadwaita
Mfw an audioplayer in development is an application.. that plays audio.. that has issues.. because it isn't finished yet. It's clearly not trying to be the next spotify. People just want a simple app to play audio files without opening their music application. Or even, imagine you have music paused, and you want to listen to an audio file. You have to stop your music completely. It makes total sense what it's trying to do.
Its winter in year 3040. The gnome notifications and calender drop down can finally be resized with a simple right click drag.
Year 3041. Notifications and calendar are completely rewritten with the new version of the ui library, and have lost the ability to be resized along with half the features they used to have
@NJ-wb1cz Resizing is added back again in 4067
Now people can enjoy them for about a decade before the Clans inva--no, wait, that's Battletech.
It looks cool to me! Always found rhythmbox to be very ugly hahaha, I currently use Elisa which also looks cute
rythmbox makes decibels look good, it's unfair. It should be compared to what it is replacing: Amberol. Which is a great music player
Rhythmbox blows it out of the water
@m4saurabh yeah, functionality-wise, it definitely does
@@moussaadem7933Decibels is not replacing amberol, I use both
Moosync. Since it does spotify while keeping the data hoarding local files also.
i like to use it as a quick "i wanna know what this file is?" not as a music player per se :)
gnome sushi
mpv
vlc
why have an extra app when a music player will do just that too? Do you prefer to go out of your way to open a specific app just to do that instead of double clicking the file?
@@davidoli calm down son, chill, don't get mad. its the way i like it jeeeesus christ.
I suppose you can't please anyone anymore.
I'm on nixOS, ran decibles by creating a shell with it (nix shell nixpkgs#decibels) and I can confirm that drag and drop does work on it. I don't use flatpaks at all, and well, stuff like that in the video is why I don't, haha.
Just tried it for hyprland, I will add it to my suite, it's awesome!
Its usually a quick fix using flatseal. Would reccomend.
I don't like it when an UI gets simplified to a point where i can no longer use the software. Gnome in general seems to be moving in that direction for a while now but it hasn't become a deal breaker yet.
You don't need to applefy everything 😞
To be fair, this particular UI largely copies media player from widows XP
Not everything needs to be KDEfied either. As a KDE user, I sometimes use GNOME apps simply because, well, it's simple and gets the job done without extra stuff.
What? You don't like editing obscure xml files and hunting down third party ppa?
I honestly think this is a great audio player. It follows the Unix philosophy of having a single job and doing it correctly. It’s not a music or radio player like Rhythmbox and doesn't have most of it's features, which I believe is what is generating the confusion and hate. What we really need now is an alternative to Rhythmbox or perhaps just a major design overhaul for it. Great work by the developers and a great video. Keep it up!
There was a post ~6 months ago from the Lollypop developers that they are working on a Libadwaita+GTK4 music player. For GTK4+Libadwaita you could try Recordbox.
Tried it out before, it only has the basics of a music player. Does the job sure, but it looks too simple.
Also, about your drag and drop issue, you need to allow permissions to it to open directories of your choosing, assuming you're using the Flatpak, using Flatseal.
Another reason for not using Flatpak or Snaps
@@Error8x8That could also be a reason to do use flatpaks: your apps only have permissions you want them to have
It's not really a music player. It's just an audio player. This is not for and should not replace your music library suite, whatever you use for that.
@@Error8x8 how is an app not having permissions by default something to avoid? I'd rather it be that way. If anything, the experience isn't as polished as in mobile OSes where it'll prompt you whether you want to give it permission as necessary however that's something solveable
So many audio players and none of them can just show all the files and that's it. They overcomplicate audio players or simplify them the point where they become useless.
There's two kinds of "audio players" as you're putting it.
1. audio players
2. music library managers
Decibels, is an Audio player. It is a simple application to do exactly the one task of playing a random audio file and nothing else.
I think the application you want is a music library manager, which will let you look at all of your music playlists and songs, browsing them to play the music you want.
@@LadyInStem I've tried them all, they all suck
@@LadyInStem Windows media player that Decibels copies acts as both music player and audio player. You don't have to think and ponder, it just works if you use it on one file, and also works if you use it on multiple files or if you open a playlist.
I'm a fan of this. It lets you easily play a audio file, instead of being designed for music.
At least this one has a volume control!
Why isn't this video just a bug report?
Everything Gnome is always too barebone.
This is part of its appeal, Cosmic seems to want to bridge the minimal nature of gnome with KDE's customisability.
@@giorgos-4515 Yes, but most people don't like that. Not even most Gnome users. That's why most people install extensions to even be able to use the DE.
That’s true. For me gnome is not usable without extensions that make it behave similar to kde and windows. KDE is way worse though in my opinion. It’s just way too ugly and there is no amount of customization that can make up for it.
I actually really like the new app! It's really just designed as a simple way to play audio files and visually integrate into the Gnome desktop. If people need something with more features, they can download other apps.
I'm sure small quirks with Decibels will be ironed out over time.
Big issues in oss development: 1. They choose interpreted languages for things that should be compiled. 2. Not all of the devs actually test their code. 3. Sound playing apps are a big of a mixed bag 4. People won’t improve existing tools, they opt to start over.
I think no. 4 is the biggest oss sin, people do not want to get to know someone else's codebase.
1) It's jited.
And it uses GStreamer underneath, so no overhead at all.
I was actually was using this app for quite a while now, but not for music
Exactly, it's not a music application.
I like it.
And I support they make essential basic desktop apps.
Hope they add sidepane for music list in the future.
What I don't get is why did they program it in typescript? Is GTK+Adwaita good if you write typescript?
Typescript just translates to Javascript, and Javascript is one of the best supported languages in GTK.
@softwarelivre2389 I did not know that! So people prefer to bundle a browser with their app rather than just write C hahshsh
@@acriliqueofc You don't need to bundle any browser. Where did you get that incorrect info?
@@softwarelivre2389 hmmmmm there must be a browser somewhere (or if you prefer calling it that way, an "engine" like V8) in order for the javascript to be interpreted.
If not, how would they do it?
@@acriliqueofc No browser, just a javascript runtime akin to node.js. They actually use spider monkey (Firefox's Js engine)
Great video. Lets the developers create what they want. Freedom of choice.
It's been a long time since I've used gnome but from what I remember their own apps are supposed to be the most simple version of that software you can get. No features you wish weren't there. And I always liked having that option on a system. If it could open a play list or have more than one file open that's the most complexity I'd add to it. Remember, totem can't do that. VLC doesn't do it with much of a UI being involved. But that's more reason to do it. Be the app with the minimum features but maybe one that somehow the complex apps don't have.
Just because you can, doesnt mean you should. Ultimately the users will decide its popularity.
It uses GStreamer underneath, so the fronten language is of no concern, as it will only display stuff from a library.
Also: Drag-and-drop does just not work in flatpaks...
drag and drop not working is an issue with flatpak sandboxing. The app is not allowed to access this path. It will work out of documents and downloaded though.
You can't really compare a Music player to an Audio player. They have separate functionality.
personally I like decibles. because I perceive gnome as mac os linux version, which as far as I'm aware decibels is much more align with the simplicity and minimalistic ideals that the dev had. though it undeniably still got to more polished. anyway, great video bro
The drag and drop fails probably because it is running in sandbox environment (flatpak) without the permission to access your dragged file location.
Try to grant it the permission to your whole system in Flatseal and try again.
Kinda voids half the point of flatpak though.
However I believe there are portals in development that will fix drag and drop in flatpak.
What a dumb format. Whats the point of a sandbox when you need to work around it to do anything useful?
the best version of windows 95 sound recorder yet
omg, your clickbait is incredible. "drama", "controversy"... I almost laugh myself off of my chair.
Shitty app, no drama...
I use Rhytmbox and it works well and straight forward, no fuss. As for the appearance, some might say it's not very modern, for me it's just meant to show off all complete list of songs and their details including album covers, any infos, etc. (with a number of add-on functions that are immediately visible and accessible). That's Rhytmbox style and it's good in its own purpose.
Likewise regarding Decibels, I think there is a misunderstanding about its function, maybe it is meant for a simple and direct audio player (in a specific purpose that also exists in Windows and even in Mixplorer - Android, for example ~~ maybe the purpose is like that), not for the details of a complete music player.
... And those unimportant dramas are weird, maybe a bit indicative of "mental illness" (including dramas between fanatical distro fans). Not only is it useless, it's sometimes completely unnecessary, irrelevant, and sometimes kind of disgusting and st#pid.
People have been shitting on gnome for YEARS but they're doing their thing and crushing.
Well it is a nightly build so lets give them the benefit of doubt
Isn't gnome already running a js engine?
If you don’t have a use for it don’t use it but it doesn’t actually effect you if you don’t use it idk why people are so mad
this is fine, a simple baseline audio player , yeah, please, and sure fix the drag-drop and multiple file selection , i know it's a bit of work to have this functionality, but it would be really great , just load up a folder full of files, and play them in the order loaded ... you won't imagine the amount of search and testing that goes into finding a simple audio player
MusicPod is my go to player.
Amberol is better
Linux people should stop being so obsessed with bashing on all technology 😆
No one is bashing technology. People are bashing stupid design that doesnt improve on what already existed.
That has nothing to do within the core applications of a desktop environment.
This is a specialized app, that should only be fetched from flathub, and it's written in web language, which is the worst choice for efficiency.
THEY PROMOTED DECIBELS TO CORE?!!!
we are evolving, but backwards
i prefer VLC. it doesn't fit with gnome because it uses Qt Toolkit. but if it's works, i'll use it & make it default.
I can't seem to like Gnome anything.... why would I want to use restrictive mobile-style apps on my desktop? Also, the color gradients and icons seem like Windows 7. I'll stick with KDE. Also.... Typescript? This is the dystopian future for sure.
isnt Gnome nowayds js based most of the thing its literally a browser at this point
JS != BROWSER
the drag and drop is most likely not decibel's fault, and probably caused by flatpak. it also could be caused by ubuntu because ubuntu sucks
Yeah yeah yeah, I get it. I very much dislike gnome too. But at the end of the day, is unix philosophy not to write simple programs that do one thing and do one thing well? This should be part of the file manager, as a preview function kind of like how you can play a file from finder in Mac os
One of the most popular software in the world is MS Excel. Part of the reason why is because it just doesn't blindly adhere to useless software doctrine
Gnome apps are beautiful, but tend to be way too simple for actual use. The only thing that has become rich with features is gnome files, and it is where the most resources on apps should be. They nailed that one. Flatpak is trash. It doesn't follow HFS, which is annoying. Also, many apps are handicapped by their recommended security BS and developers+users eventually loose interest.
I stopped caring about Gnome a long time ago. They have shown time and time again that the only thing they care about is aesthetics, functionality be damned.
Aesthetics matter a lot.
7:59 I disagree hardly on this. Yes, developers are free to do whatever they want their software, but if they keep reinventing the wheel over and over again, instead of doing what actually is needed to be done, sooner or later, this "free and open source" sentiment won't buy people anymore. You want to have a flourishing community, where everyone wants to support the free software? Do what the community wants. The major bugs and lacking features should be prioritized to be added. What am I gonna do with a half-baked music player? And even if you do reinvent the wheel, make sure it solves a problem, like giving a better music-player experience, like AIMP on Windows. Try to solve a problem, not solve a solution. Otherwise this "OPEN SOURCE IS THE WAY" sentiment will wither soon.
6:32 It already was crashing during demo.. hahaha
There wasn't any drama????
It being unpolished doesn't count as drama????
That wasn't really worth it...
How is "let the developers work on what they wanna work on" a valid rebuttal? It doesn't at all address the issue. Gnome devs enjoy wasting time and that's a fact.
whatever... just install VLC and audacity.
I wouldn't expect an app named "decibels" would do anything more than what you've shown. I see a lot of potential API expansion by GNOME devs if they decide to develop their own media suite later akin to iTunes or something. I could see API expansion allowing this app to be embedded within other apps or something. I could also see this app being exactly what it is. Nothing more and nothing less as part of GNOME's out-of-the-box feature set. All of those scenarios would indeed be exciting if this weren't GNOME. Yeah, sorry GNOME, you've done well to establish your predisposition for anything you deem "GNOME" and it usually has nothing to do with anything useful to the GUI user space. It's kind of like how Apple approaches everything but without funding. :)
There's a project on the GNOME gitlab called gapless which is a very food music library application, I'm a big fan of it. It essentially replaces Rythmbox on mordern GNOME with libadwaita for me.
.-. just saw a comment of mine get deleted
nvm lol
I think TH-cam is messing up right now. It took forever to process my video. Somethings happening on the backend 👀
Amberol ftw
Stop writing these things in JavaScript. Devs these days arent taught anything!
Making a fully fledged music player app is quite a complex task, you need a lot to make it happen and with streaming platforms, desktop music players are kind of a dead project, however a desktop environment should have a "music player like" app its beneficial for the overall experience of the desktop environment. Not every person listens to a huge library of music, organized by albums and most people prefer to create their own playlists to listen to a collection of songs either with simple folders or in a format that an app might specify as a playlist, however Decibles looks like quite an early stage thing and that blown out waveform is a bit... weird.
gnome have too many duplicate apps.
Having an audio player in Linux is kind of optimistic considering that sound never ducking works.
This wasn't worth your time Nik. So much stuff to do and people chose to complain about this?
I'll stick with Audacious or DEADBEEF
mpd + ncmpcpp enjoyers stay winning