I'd recommend taking the full unix dive and ditch your GUI centred apps for MPD. You can any of dozens of GUI clients to interact with the daemon (http://mpd.wi

I'd recommend taking the full unix dive and ditch your GUI centred apps for MPD. You can any of dozens of GUI clients to interact with the daemon (http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients). Keyboard shortcuts can be done via your DE, by shelling out to 'mpc play', and such. My concern for music is less playing it (that's easy), but more about organizing it, for which MusicBrainz Picard wins.