Christer wrote: > I don't ever bother skinning mine because I use the 'roll up player' > option and make it a small sliver on the screen. I prefer a player > that plays audio and stays out of my way.
Good point-- in my raving review of AmaroK I neglected to mention that it can take up a lot of screen real estate. It has a playlist, an area to show the album, lyrics, information about the artist, names of similar bands, related tracks, related albums, favorite albums, last played, etc. It's a ton of information-- all useful and cool-- but you pay for that with screen space. Now, I don't happen to care because I just put it on a desktop (number 3 of my 10 desktops) and hop back there when I want to see/change something with the music. But if you're a single-desktop kind of guy, AmaroK will probably annoy you. There are, however, little one-line players that interface with AmaroK. SuperKaramba has a ton of them (see http://kde-apps.org), and since AmaroK uses KDE's DCOP interface, you can even write your own or bind some magic keystrokes if you want. So you can minimize the big window and use an XMMS-like mini-player if you want. I suspect your question is going to get a dozen different answers from people who all like a certain music player for certain reasons. But that's part of the fun of open source: choice! :) Jeff
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