This image PR episode 1900 and titled QMMP, the QT-maist multi-media player.
It is posted by Frank Mel and in about 12 minutes long.
The summary is QMMP in a simple media player inspired by WIMP and the MMS.
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Hello, this is Frank Mel.
Today I want to talk about QMMP, the QT-based multi-media player.
This project has been around for a while but does not seem to be widely known.
It's inspired by WIMP, a little bit of background.
Back in my WIMP those days, WIMP was easily my favorite audio player.
I liked the small footprint, I liked the way it worked and I particularly liked the fact
that it was skin-able.
There were hundreds of WIMP skins.
I do like my eye candy.
I don't like flashing lights.
I don't like windows that shiver.
I don't like that sort of bells and whistles but I do like my pretty pictures.
When I moved to Linux, XMMS became my favorite media player.
And of course you may know the XMMS project is default.
There is something called XMMS 2 but it doesn't have those particular features that
are attracting me to WIMP and then to XMMS and as an added bonus I could use my library
of WIMP skins with XMMS and I have quite a few of them including three or four that
I made myself using a nifty little windows program called skin-out which is still available.
So I was quite happy when I discovered QMMP.
The program runs on Linux, BSD and Windows.
There doesn't seem to be a max been available and I don't have a max so I couldn't test
the BSD version to see if it would run on a max.
There's locked down as max are.
I rather die with but if someone can find out and put it in a comment to this podcast
you might help out someone else.
Now I've already mentioned my history with WIMP and XMMS.
There are some other features that they had and that QMMP has that I like.
The interface is simple and clean.
It's playlist oriented, not database oriented.
It doesn't want to go stalking around my hard drive and hunting down all my audio files
and put them in a library by catalog.
Instead, and it suits the way I listen, I normally listen to either audio streams or to podcasts
and neither run of those items is really suitable for a library.
I have a library.
It's 400 vinyl discs ranging from the Jefferson airplane to RIMP's E.C.
Rostiharazod sitting in my house and when I want to listen to a library, that's the library
I use.
In addition to the other features I've mentioned in BSD and Linux with an MPlayer plugin
you can play video.
The video will appear in a separate window, much like video did in WIMP once it had video
capabilities and you can manipulate that window independently.
Like WIMP and XMMS got it out on the first time that time.
The QMMP window has three parts.
At the top there is a little player panel with the normal controls, fast forward balance,
rewind and so on that you would commonly see on any player.
The middle is an equalizer and at the bottom is a playlist window.
Similar again to WIMP and XMMS.
At the bottom of the playlist window are a series of buttons for adding and removing and manipulating
items.
In fact the playlist window by itself if that's the only one you choose to have visible
also has a small player control window with play, pause, go to the end and rewind buttons.
It doesn't have the balance controls and a couple of other controls that are in the player
window itself.
The buttons at the bottom there is a button for file where you can add a file or directory
or an existing playlist or a remove button where you can remove an item or select it
items from the playlist, a selection item for selecting and selecting items in the playlist.
A mist button where you can look at details about the string and sort the string and finally
a list button where you can lower the playlist, save a new playlist, go to the next
or the previous playlist and so on.
There are also key bindings, a nice long list of them, I'll mention a few for examples,
the letter F and as near as I can tell it's not case sensitive, you can add a file to
play.
The letter U, you can paste in the URL of a string, the letter D, you can navigate to
a directory and play it and so on.
There's also a right click menu if you hover the mouse over the player window and right
click to get a menu that provides various options for manipulating the audio and the playlist.
There's also a list for each one of the corresponding key binding.
There's two visualization plugins that I found and this is where you would turn them
on or off, an extensive settings dialog and then the abideance dialog, fairly standard stuff.
The setting sub menu is where it gets interesting.
There's one for appearance and that's where you manipulate your scans.
If you want to add a scan, you click to add one, navigate to where it exists on your hard drive,
and then it becomes available to be used.
You can't roll the scan directly from a file that has to be put into this appearance dialog
first.
There's a list of all the shortcuts, all the various key bindings.
Some options pretty displaying the playlist and advanced button was some additional
miscellaneous options on audio button where you can set gain and so on.
I haven't had to play with that at all, there's a connectivity item where you can configure
our proxy if you use one or need to use one and the windows version there's also a list
of file types, why I don't know.
It also comes with a screen browser included.
Now that screen browser is a list of streams from ice cast.
I don't use ice cast all that much, I have no idea whether it's a complete list, I don't
really see how it could be, but it's there and if you're an ice cast user, you'll probably
find it quite convenient.
I have not found a way to add new streams to that list.
There may be one but if so, it is hidden in many fab and steep.
I didn't want to mention to get to the stream browser you right-click up in the menu and
go to Tools.
There's no bookmark function per se if you're an or when that user, you remember that
and when that you could actually book more items.
However, there's a workaround because you can say playlist.
If you have a number of items in the playlist window or in my case, let's say a stream,
you can click the load list button with sometimes abbreviated to load and select say playlist.
The default name will be playlist.m3u.
The dialogue scene for support are the major playlist formats.
I've tested both m3u and PRS, I haven't tested the others, but I'm sure they work
just as well.
I can use m3u simply because it's the default that pops up.
You get a dialogue up to say the playlist, you change the name from playlist.m3u to
KCEA, a radio station stream, I like to listen to KCEA, KCEA.org, you know, give it a
healing readable name and save the file.
I have a special directory for saving my playlist to so they're easy to find.
In addition to creating or manipulating a playlist file with Qmmp, there's separate text
files and various specific formats that format is published, you can manipulate them with
any text editor.
There doesn't seem to be any sort of, do we help, I can find, if you enter an terminal,
the command Qmmp, hyphen hyphen help, there's a rudimentary help list that will pop up to
the terminal, but generally the option is served, so self-explanatory, I can see why there
is no help, it doesn't need a fancy help.
I quite like this player, I'm able to use my old lamp skins with it as versatile, the sound
is fine, and I recommend if you're interested in something like the old XMMS, give it
a try.
If you go to the show notes, you will see links to the harm page, there's also links
to a slack build, there's actually a slack build script on the Qmmp homepage, and there's
a slack build at slackbuild.org.
If you're using a repo based distro, the odds are it's in the repose, it was in the repose
for both net and magia.
And also for BSD, PCBSD, and free BSD, they have been in their repose, I've been experimenting
with BSD.
There are skins for Qmmp at the home page, and you may also be able to find it some
sites, some legacy WinApp skins, so they're available for downloads.
I've also linked to the specification for the M3U format, and several other items that you might
find useful.
I want to thank you for listening.
If you want to get in touch with me, you can email me at Frank at PineViewFarm.net.
My website is www. PineViewFarm.net. PineViewFarm is the farm in the Virginia Country side
where I grew up.
Again, thank you for listening, and I'll catch you all on the floor.
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