When comparing Parole vs Rage, the Slant community recommends Rage for most people. In the question“What are the best media players for Linux?” Rage is ranked 12th while Parole is ranked 24th. The most important reason people chose Rage is:
A very lightweight media player, with almost no dependencies.
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Pros
Pro Based on GStreamer
It's based on the GStreamer framework so it supports all GStreamer codes and plugins.
Pro Lightweight
A very lightweight media player, with almost no dependencies.
Pro Fully customizable
Since it is written with efl there is basically everything possible that you can imagine.
Cons
Con Tries to be a Audio and Video player at the same time
So it will never be the perfect audio or video player
Con Menu navigation is poor
There are no icons inside the menus which makes them very uncomfortable and slow to browse.
Con Fat
Depending on your desktop environment it could have some huge dependencies for example it needs GStreamer and its codecs plus GTK and some Xfce libaries.
Con Customization is hard
Customization is done in efl which uses a C-like syntax.
