On 4/17/06, Sriram Ramkrishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Secondly, you're thinking that a single music player would address all > your needs. Frankly I don't think it can. There are too many use cases > for music players and a single monolithic application is not going to > address everything. So the idea is that you would use the player that > would work best with what you want to do. For instance, you still want > your tags if you decide you want to stream your music to another computer > or to your stereo. But Rhythmbox isn't meant to do that, but some > other app is. May I be so blunt to suggest you try out xmms2 for a while? This is exactly what I do too, but with the same application. I kick back in the sofa, press alt+f3 to activate deskbar, a bit of text, some arrow-movement and enter and music comes flowing. music applet starts doing its thing, and I add some ranking to the current song. Later I need to get a good view of all my music and I fire up a medialib browser that lets me with ease navigate throughout my collection. Suddenly a friend calls because she noticed a strange song on my last.fm page which the scrobbler client updates in the background, so I type some cryptic commands on my terminal to activate an icecast of what I'm listening to. Later this very hypothetical night I invite some friends for some partying, we get very drunk and normal applications will simply not do. A full screen opengl based application that lets you browse the cd's with large fonts, flip them and watch the back side, and right/left arrow to rotate the cd-case to the next album, and on key press a search starts and everything rotates and scream of bling ;)
And all of this, just simple clients connected to the minimalistic, simplistic xmms2 daemon. No flaming intended, just a description of how xmms2 works as I come to think of xmms2 when reading each and every mail in this discussion. -- Daniel Svensson, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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