On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:50:24 +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis <[email protected]> wrote:
> * H.Merijn Brand <[email protected]> [2009-06-26 12:55]: > > The best proof for that is bmp (beep-media-player) which had a > > perfectly working SIMPLE GUI, but was abandoned for bmp-2 that > > doesn't work as good for audio, but has an overbloated GUI. > > I have forever wanted something half-way between XMMS and iTunes XMMS and beep-media-player are almost the same, except that bmp came with more plug-ins. The interface is identical, and the XMMS::* perl modules do not care. > (let me browse by metadata, but without abstracting away the file > system behind a "library"), only with a bog-standard GUI. This is > roughly the simplest form of metadata-based player that you could > imagine, so you would think someone would have written that sort > of thing. > > The end point of many years of searching? I use mplayer from the mplayer? don't start. It spews so much verbosity I don't care about that I just use smplayer for the command line, as it nicely hides away what I don't want to see when watching a movie. > command line. It's about the crudest way to play music available, even cruder is "play" > but it has feature parity with all non-metadata-based GUI players > except it doesn't have any sort of GUI -- so by definition does mplayer has (way too) many GUI's, but they are not included in the default mplayer. Have a look the "MPlayer Frontends" section in http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/projects.html and see where it all goes pear-shape: SMPlayer, KMPlayer, KPlayer, KumaPlayer, namp, Pymp, Pygme, Kino2, GtkPlayer, MPlayerTCL, eMotion, QUI for MPlayer, MPlauncher, mplay, MPlayer & XMP GUI Project, Qxmp, QEMPlayer, mplayerTV, X-ChaMan, Beeh! Player, Home Theater Personal Computer Menu, IDRA, jmPlayer, gHDTV, WebMplayer, FrogEye, ASDF, GNOME-MPlayer, libplayer, aTunes, mpxtended, XULPlayer, PyMPlayer, radio.py, MplayerBuddy, JJMplayer, PyAcceleREMOTER, Tickle Tunes, Xt7-Player, and AniMPlayer. available mplayer frontends in opensuse: gnome-mplayer, kde4-kmplayer, kmplayer, mplayerplug-in, smplayer and probably a lot more if I would be stupid enough to go look for them > not have a crappy one either. > > Yeah. > > Dedicated music players all suck so bad that using *mplayer in a > shell* turns out to suck less. > > Yours with the only winning move, -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.3, 11.0, and 11.1, AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
