Once upon a time, John Thacker thacker@math.cornell.edu said:
I'm biased; my feelings for some time have been "Die, XMMS, Die!" I like their playlist-based approach much better than Rhythmbox, but their refusal to move away from gtk+ is frustrating. I get along perfectly well without gtk+, and don't like installing it for just one program.
Users don't care about the libraries though; it's all about the apps.
Maybe I've just missed something, but the times I tried I didn't see a quick and easy way to just open a random sound file and play it in Rhythmbox. I guess I'll look again, or I'll just install xmms (and whatever it requires) from FE.