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Elisa player is now in the archive, and part of the apps release-service, so we should evaluate if this can replace cantata for 20.04. Cantata depends on mpd, and can be a little confusing for new users because of that. Elisa is: * designed to be simple, but it is now picking up new features such as radio stream support in 19.12. * scheduled to get bugfixes regularly now, while cantata release/fixes are at the discretion of its github maintainer. * going to have new feature releases from KDE that we can include in backports Main things to consider IMO would be: * Features gained/lost * Reliability e.g. crashes visible bugs. * Music indexing. Elisa uses baloo, then falls back to its internal indexing of whatever music path you give it if baloo is not available. We disable by default the baloo content indexer, which in a quick test seems to result in Elisa having to go to fallback. Please test elisa to see what you make of this idea. I will make elisa 19.12 available in backports ppa for Eoan shortly, in case you cannot test in Focal.

Elisa player is now in the archive, and part of the apps release-service, so we should evaluate if this can replace cantata for 20.04. Cantata depends on mpd, and can be a little confusing for new users because of that. Elisa is: * designed to be simple, but it is now picking up new features such as radio stream support in 19.12. * scheduled to get bugfixes regularly now, while cantata release/fixes are at the discretion of its github maintainer. * going to have new feature releases from KDE that we can include in backports Main things to consider IMO would be: * Features gained/lost * Reliability e.g. crashes visible bugs. * Music indexing. Elisa uses baloo, then falls back to its internal indexing of whatever music path you give it if baloo is not available. We disable by default the baloo content indexer, which in a quick test seems to result in Elisa having to go to fallback. Please test elisa to see what you make of this idea. I will make elisa 19.12 available in backports ppa for Eoan shortly, in case you cannot test in Focal.

Elisa player is now in the archive, and part of the apps release-service, so we should evaluate if this can replace cantata for 20.04. Cantata depends on mpd, and can be a little confusing for new users because of that. Elisa is: * designed to be simple, but it is now picking up new features such as radio stream support in 19.12. * scheduled to get bugfixes regularly now, while cantata release/fixes are at the discretion of its github maintainer. * going to have new feature releases from KDE that we can include in backports Main things to consider IMO would be: * Features gained/lost * Reliability e.g. crashes visible bugs. * Music indexing. Elisa uses baloo, then falls back to its internal indexing of whatever music path you give it if baloo is not available. We disable by default the baloo content indexer, which in a quick test seems to result in Elisa having to go to fallback. Please test elisa to see what you make of this idea. I will make elisa 19.12 available in backports ppa for Eoan shortly, in case you cannot test in Focal.