I would be happy to try out anything. :-) I'm confused is xxms2 == bmpx or we're talking about something else altogether?
sri On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 04:30:44PM +0200, Daniel Svensson wrote: > 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]> -- _______________________________________________ gnome-multimedia mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-multimedia
