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Thanks

You wouldn't be requiring any assistance? for a short while?

-- DoctorMO --

You wouldn't be requiring any assistance? for a short while?

-- DoctorMO --

Not at the present time, thankyou.

Didn't think so... your projects quite small, and I'm but a GUI programmer. Oh well, perhaps I shouls start my own...

-- DoctorMO --

We already have a GUI programmer - me! You're right, more people at this stage is unnecessary, and would probably be a matter of 'too many cooks spoil the broth'.

I'm sure there are all sorts of interesting projects you can get involved with or do yourself.

It was worth a shot, so how is it comming along, and why do you hate xmms so much?

-- DoctorMO --

Have you ever looked at the source code of XMMS? Go and poke at it for a bit and tell me what you think.

I'm guesing *long shot* it's uncommented and realy badly layed out? and if you want to add anything, your going to have to spend 3 life lims adding above mentioned.

Aparently you can run winamp3 though winex, and scince xmms is just a linamp clone...

-- DoctorMO --

Actually there's a native Linux port of Winamp3... hasn't been released yet, but it exists.

Besides, there are better things to play with audio on Linux. Towel's going to be using GStreamer soon, which is a really nice multimedia framework. Theoretically we'll be able to add video playback support without too much effort, although we won't because all we want is audio (being able to play the audio out of video files would be possible and fairly cool though).

why don't you add it all modulaised, video out modual. makes it all nice and flexible. and you can have setup's were only the mp3 module is loaded, if thats what's required, much lighter app... intelgent too.

-- DoctorMO ---

Hmm, I wrote a gadget to pick MP3s (although it uses external software to actually play them):

http://www.davidmorgan.org/java/music/index.shtml

I'm not sure if anyone else would like it, but it does several things I find very handy:

- Designed to run as a daemon with no user interface; it's controllable by command-line so I can control it with buttons living with my normal launchers... absolute maximal ease of use

- Keeps a database of how many times things have been played, whether they've been played recently, plus ratings in as many categories as you want; for example, I use it to tag music that's good for juggling ... you can set up search critereon to pick the next track, of course

- Pick MP3s using regular expressions on file names ... since I organise my MP3s logically, I can use this to search on category, artist name, etc...

This means I can always get at my music with one clicks for random(ish) stuff, or two clicks (and some typing ) for a particular artist, category, or track... even better, if I don't like a track, it's a single click to skip it...

(well, alright, add one click to those because I put the icons in a sub-menu )

Organising 10Gb of MP3s would be quite tricky without it

(oh, I've been lurking for a while ... I read up on Gentoo -- I think I'll give it a try when I next upgrade my OS... this summer, probably... it looks very cool)

26199, very cool.

DoctorMO, GStreamer is already a modular playback architecture, and while we could write a modular program on top of that, all we'd really be doing is duplicating the efforts of various other projects. What we want is an audio player which fills a particular set of functionality which we require and currently don't have a truly satisfactory program to provide.

Oh, and it's going to have a very nice playlist indeed.

hehe, thats very cool,

shame... pept.

-- DoctorMO --