Idea For A Music Program

[transmition]

The pandora is a wonderful device, and I think it has a lot of potential as a music player.
As it stands though, if you want to get a playlist going, you boot into xfce, start xmms, and then go from there.

What I would like to see is a simple, ncurses front end to mplayer that would provide easy navigation using the Dpad and buttons, while being light on resources. Since it would not have a GUI, it could be run without a desktop environment running. If possible, the processor could be downclocked in combination with this program so as to further maximize battery life.

Thoughts?

 

[lulzfish]

It sounds sort of interesting.
Can anybody remind me how you access the D-Pad and buttons without X.org being involved? Can SDL do that, or does it rely on X11 behind the scenes?

 

[gruso]

There are some lightweight music players on the GP2X that fit this bill. We're likely to see one or two of these ported:

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp2x.cgi?0,0,0,0,6,1870
http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp2x.cgi?0,0,0,0,6,2177
http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp2x.cgi?0,0,0,0,6,1857

I know Coder_TimT has expressed interest in porting ommpc2x to Pandora. He's done some nice visual updates on it pretty recently too.

 

[grasshoppir]

mpd is cool and has a few clients in "curses"
http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon_Wiki

 

[Caine]

It's not for everyone, but you could give EMMS a try

 

[renwils]

mpd is cool and has a few clients in "curses"
http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon_Wiki

+1 for mpd

 

[shill]

I'd like to see an iTunes clone with a pretty interface. But a player that runs in the background would be good too, I guess

 

[gruso]

I'd like to see an iTunes clone with a pretty interface. But a player that runs in the background would be good too, I guess

http://www.getsongbird.com/

It's open source (mozilla based) but I don't know how realistic it is for Pandora.

 

[Enverex]

I'd like to see an iTunes clone with a pretty interface. But a player that runs in the background would be good too, I guess

Songbird

 

[shill]

I'd like to see an iTunes clone with a pretty interface. But a player that runs in the background would be good too, I guess

http://www.getsongbird.com/

It's open source (mozilla based) but I don't know how realistic it is for Pandora.

It'd be good for running alone without any other programs running, I'd think. But I like purdy things.

 

[Alibobar]

mpd

 

[JeanLouSchmidt]

light, stable, and read almost everything => mpd !!!