* H.Merijn Brand <h.m.br...@xs4all.nl> [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 (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 command line. It's about the crudest way to play music available, 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 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, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
