Does this look good for an Mp3 Player?

[ksv]

Originally posted by chemistry_geek
Whitesaint,

If you want to make a really good MP3 player that many people around here have been asking for, make a command line MP3 player. I would really like to be able to listen to MP3s through the command line. Why? Less CPU hoggage. I don't need fancy graphics to listen to music. Would be nice just to type a few commands to get the MP3 player working. A play list could be put together by dropping the the file into the terminal then copying the path to a text editor for the play list. Type a command and see the playlist spew out on to the terminal with a number associated with it. Type another command and the number, sort of like using "ps ax" to get the processes and typing "kill xxx" to kill the offending program, to get it to play. Type another command to get MP3 info, etc... Type another command, get info/settings for the song, adjust bass, treble, preamp, cross-fading etc... You get the idea. This would be a boon to all those UNIX head junkies. Who knows, ths project could really put you on the map in the open source community - THE ONLY COMMAND LINE MP3 PLAYER WHOSE PRIMARY BENEFIT IS LOW CPU USAGE. This would be a good niche target audience. Most companies have no interest in making a PLAIN MP3 player. But the geeks would really appreciate a nice piece of software that is simple and easy to use.

Another idea, create the command line MP3 player to work in its own environment, much like PICO and PINE. Then you could have multiple terminals open, one for your MP3 player, one for IRC, BitchX, chatting. Another terminal for OS hacking, still another for compiling. I can just see it now [Harps playing, scratching chin David Letterman-style]...

Yeah, that would for sure become popular. I'd use it. Charge $6.66 for it, and the money would roll in

[-JP-]

If Microsoft had made a MP3 player with ideas stolen from Mac OS X, the result would be something like that.

[azosx]

mpg123 is a command line mp3 player that has been ported to OS X.

http://macosx.forked.net/showcat.php...method=reverse

Check it out. I've been using it in Linux for years and love it.

You die hard Mac people need to explore new horizons. There is so much out there now for you, especially since Apple went Unix.

Live a little. There's more to life than iApps.

[goynang]

Sorry to be negative, but you asked for opinions!

I like my Mac because everything about it is more elegant than a PC. However, your MP3 player looks like just another PC MP3 player. I want to listen to my MP3's - not look at the thing that plays them.

In my view MP3 players should be heard and not seen.

Small, simple, clean!

(oh yeah - like iTunes)

[xoot]

whitesaint, how is the command-line mp3 player going?

Just Checking.

[Trip]

If you want to make your application a load better just send me an e-mail and I'm sure we can work something out.

[Captain Code]

What a weird co-incidence.

I'm reading this thread, and a user named whitesaint 200 kbps comes on the same Carracho server as me. Never the less, he doesn't reply to chat messages. Oh well

[whitesaint]

I posted this thread at least 8 months ago!! I stopped working on that Mp3 player a long time ago...

devonferns - yeah that was my brother

xoot - howd you know i downloaded the command line mp3 player?! I couldnt get it to work...

Trip - Sorry the project failed....Looks like the same is gonna happen for my virtual desktops application...

Geez programming is tough!