Sunday, December 10, 2006

Music Players Are Naughty

In pursuit for perfection I have always had a few players installed on my boxes. Apart from a bunch of console-based ones, I've used xmms, both generations of beep-media-player, audacious, and lately Amarok and Listen. My guess is I'll have to wait for about 3-5 years to see MusicBrainz integration that works, with an open audio hashing technology in use, a Last.fm that doesn't push AJAX to the limit, a good client-server model, somewhat alike what mldonkey is doing and a few other nice things. Meanwhile, I'll probably keep porting new players to FreeBSD and see what users have to say.