As it is, the current MediaPlayer seems ideal for opening up the odd media file (which is fine; I wouldn't want an MP3 someone sends me to open up with what I use to manage my entire library and interrupt what is currently playing), not for managing and maintaining a persistent library. In that sense, I would expect the following of a media library application: 1. A more modern and native-looking user interface; along the lines of Sonata in terms of UI elements. (http://sonata.berlios.de/screenshots.html) 2. Shuffle/repeat controls, enqueuing, maintaining multiple playlists. 3. Some form of a music library, possibly with folder that it monitors for new content. MediaPlayer doesn't seem to work at all for maintaining one big playlist to emulate a library; every attempt I have made at dragging my entire Music folder into the playlist has led it to lock up (or maybe it's just taking too long). In Linux, I use MPD which maintains my entire library with a source directory where it can update the contents of the library from (usually with "mpc update", but ideally this would be automatic). With that, I have a primary playlist which I fill with my entire library and usually leave on shuffle. I use multiple clients to control mpd; currently ncmpcpp (a terminal UI), and I have mpc mapped for some global multimedia hotkeys (e.g. Right Ctrl + Home "mpc pause"). Sonata is also an MPD client. This setup works very well, and I think a sort of multimedia kit that acts like MPD could work very well on Haiku. On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:57 PM, David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2009/11/3 Alex Suraci <i.am@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Patrick Kelly <kameo76890@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> 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. > > What do you feel is missing in the MediaPlayer? > > -- > Cheers > David > > -- Alex