bongo
Romain Francoise, who already packages the wonderful emacs-snapshot
has filed an
ITP
for
bongo, a
"buffer orientated media player for emacs"
For quite a while now I have used
Emms whenever I needed to
play music from within a text editor, and I must admit Emms does
what it is supposed to do with minimal fuss. Bongo proved even
easier to set up, I just loaded the library and it worked without
having to specify any back-end music players to use. Bongo also
seemed to load both my full mp3 collection faster, I doubt that the
load time is actually faster but I think Emms might parse the tags
to create a track name for the playlist buffer whereas bongo simply
named the files the same as they exist on disc.
Both players now support last.fm but I have not put any time into
figuring out how to send this info to my
account. To be honest, I find
the last.fm site too slow and a bit too busy for my liking, but it
is a great way to discover new music, and for me that's enough
encouragement to go out and buy new music, however, buying music is
still a very discouraging process for me.
Most of what I like is not on the top 40 or billboard lists, and
very rarely do I buy something from the cheaper 'just released'
shelf. Most albums I want are in the $20-25 range. It's not like
they're unpopular bands either, last week I bought Zero7's
latest
album and it cost me $25.99, in fact that day I bought 4 albums for
$94!!. Admittedly I could have very easily found a better
deal online, but I wasn't online, I was walking around a store and
being impulsive, a much better (but not cheaper) way to shop.
You might have noticed my blog has a random lyrics thingy, I like
lyrics sometimes as much as the music itself and started to keep a
lyrics.txt file in
fortune
format. Most of them might not mean anything to you, but hey, this
blog isn't about you :-)