MP3 player support

[Christopher Browne]

On 2009-05-04, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> And the winner is -- xmms2.
>
> xmms was a WinAmp clone.  It no longer is maintained or works.
>
> xmms2 is some kind of server, with no GUI.
>
> audacious seems to be the natural successor to xmms.

I have been using xmms2 lately...

It doesn't *include* a GUI, but several are available...

Debian has the following set of packages:
chris at dba2:~/architecture/rp.db-schema/trunk> wajig listnames xmms2 |
grep -v plugin
gkrellxmms2
gxmms2
wmxmms2
xmms2
xmms2-client-avahi
xmms2-client-cli
xmms2-client-medialib-updater
xmms2-core
xmms2-dev
xmms2-et
xmms2-scrobbler
xmms2tray

Several of these are GUI front ends, and it's worth note that you can
use multiple of them concurrently :-).

Avahi is a reimplementation of Apple Bonjour/Zeroconf, for automatic
publishing and discovery of services.

xmms2 groks a lot of data formats:
% wajig listnames xmms2 | grep plugin | cut -d "-" -f 3 | fmt
airplay all alsa ao asf asx avcodec avformat cdda cue curl daap faad flac
gme gvfs ices icymetaint id3v2 jack karaoke lastfm m3u mad mms modplug
mp4 musepack normalize nulstipper nulstripper ofa oss pls pulse rss sid
smb speex vocoder vorbis wma xml xspf

Note that internally, xmms2 stores the music metadata (e.g. - where to
find music files, playlists, all such stuff) in a SQLite database.
It's a somewhat bad schema (suffers from the One True Lookup Table
problem http://www.dbazine.com/ofinterest/oi-articles/celko22), but is
*reasonably* readable.
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