>Well, these are X applications (and Amarok is a KDE application.) 
>Obviously they need X to work.  USE flags are there to configure 
>*optional* dependencies and behaviors.  For mplayer and Amarok, these 
>dependencies are not optional.
>
>As others mentioned, you should install a command line player.  There 
>are a few.  mpg123 is not really a media player though.  You might want 
>to look at this:
>
>http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/04/several-powerful-console-music-players.html
>

Wait ! I remember once when I used Federa , I also installed mplayer from 
source code .
Mplayer afforded an option looked like --without-graphic , Then I could use 
mplayer under
console and it didn't contact with graphical desktop.
 
It seems that documentation about mplayer is needed . 

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