On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Patrick Kelly <kameo76890@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Nov 2, 2009, at 6:07 PM, Alex Suraci <i.am@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I'd rather see a foobar2000-esque music player than one that mimics >> iTunes or Winamp. Nothing beats a simple music player with a native >> UI. > > And Id prefer a WMP style one. Simplicity doesent always win. I couldent > care less though, so long as it can play most formats. > > Which makes something like mpd all the more appropriate. :) With a powerful enough backend, people could interface with it however they wanted with any type of client and keep the same feel (and music libraries/data) throughout. On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan <anoop.kn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Alex Suraci <i.am@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I'd rather see a foobar2000-esque music player than one that mimics >> iTunes or Winamp. Nothing beats a simple music player with a native >> UI. > > I was talking about improving the default media player itself. > > > As am I. Just with a different method - replacing it. Coming to Haiku from any other OS, the default media player is extremely dated and primitive. A default media player should be much better than that in 2009. There isn't much point in sticking so close to how these applications were on BeOS; operating systems and software in general have gone very far since then. $0.02. -- Alex