On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:22:34 -0000 "dev1fanboy" <devuanfan...@startmail.com> wrote:
> One of the better ones for the purpose of keeping pulse and dbus out > is xine (xine-ui). As far as a media player.. I think it's best to > have one thing for music and another for video. A good music player > is cmus which uses ncurses and has playlist support, does not use any > crappy extra libs, no dbus or pulse. Litt dons a tin-foil hat... I'm thinking that a "music player" is really an assembly of two things: 1) A file to speaker sound converter 2) A playlist handler Many fine file to speaker sound converters exist. I like mplayer because it's so controllable from the outside via a fifo. You must use a different converter for midi files (timidity or whatever). A playlist handler is a programming 101 assignment enabling you to load playlists and navigate within them, and while you're at it go backward and forward in your current song. I made my own playlist handler out of UMENU, Ruby, and lots of shellscript type stuff, and I use it regularly. It's nowhere near perfect, but if you're willing to use Vim to make/maintain your playlists, it works very well. My system is semi-described in these two URLs: http://troubleshooters.com/lpm/200801/200801.htm http://troubleshooters.com/lpm/200802/200802.htm My point is this: If a music player has anything but the most rudimentary dependencies, those dependencies promote either "pretty", or stuff outside the core competency of a music player. SteveT Steve Litt January 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng