I'm not looking for recommendations on what music player I should use. I would simply like to know which Music players use Ubuntu's new sound menu. The only two I know of for sure are Banshee and Rhythmbox. Maybe Amarok does too? Are there any outside of these?
Ubuntu – Which music players use the SoundMenu
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You can get around the one folder restriction by using symbolic links.
Say your music folder is ~/Music and you want to import ~/OtherMusic, you can put a symbolic link for ~/OtherMusic inside the ~/Music folder.
In a terminal: ln -s ~/OtherMusic ~/Music
You might need to restart your music player for it to notice the sym-link.
Really has nothing to do with 'Default', you can have several players in the sound menu,they'd be listed top down in order of install/activating, in other words the order listed in com.canonical.indicators.sound - interested-media-players which can be adjusted as desired.
Atm there are at least 3 specifically enabled - banshee, rhythmbox, clementine, additionally vlc-1.2+ has MPRIS2 support & works to some extent.
From my perspective the 'quality' of sound menu support is best in banshee closely followed by clementine & rhythmbox. Banshee & clementine seem to lack album art in the menu. (I not sure if guayadeque has or will have support
Vlc works ok, has album art but as it wasn't specifically coded for the sound menu it can't be minimised to it, only opened & controlled from it.
There is some interest possibly for audacious but nothing yet.
Unless you or someone else is up to the task of adding MPRIS2 & then enabling as intended for the sound menu then yes, you are "dependent on the developers of the music players.." not only for MPRIS2 but also proper integration into the menu.
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Players need to have MPRIS support and register themselves on the sound menu as described on the sound menu specification to place their controls in it. Currently Rhythmbox, Amarok and Banshee (via the plugin shipped in the
banshee-extension-soundmenupackage in Maverick) work in Maverick, Xnoise and mpd have plugins / versions you can install externally, and work is underway to add support in Exaile and Quod Libet.