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I use Decibel Audio Player (http://decibel.silent-blade.org/ http://decibel.silent-blade.org/). All it does is play music, and it does that pretty well. If you

• silentbicycle 17y ago
  It doesn't seem to. EDIT: Apparently it has a separate command-line interface (which isn't mentioned on the page). It just looked like YA GNOME media player. One quick test is if you can see another program using it directly. The reason Unix programs typically have such an austere interface is because it makes it easier to use them from another program (which may be a nice interface). There seem to be parallel ideas in RESTful web design.
  • samdk 17y ago
    It can be used by another program directly though--it has a command-line interface (decibel-audio-player-remote) that can do remote control, and it can output information about its current status to a text file. (It's not as good as most Unix programs, but it's a lot better than nothing.) It's not command-line only like most Unix programs, and it's certainly not as simple as most Unix programs, but I do think it does incorporate some of the tenets of Unix philosophy (most importantly: doing one thing and doing it well). I realize that there's other music playing software that may conform to Unix philosophy more rigidly, but in my experience good back-ends don't necessarily translate to good GUIs, and a GUI is what I want for my media player. I think Decibel is a good compromise.