2015-11-25 My favorite music player is cplay, because of its simplicity. Caused by the web reality, a part of my music collection are video files. Usually I don't want to watch the videos, just the music. I never quite came to convert all those files to mp3 ... and actually, that's not what I want. I rather wish to have a seemless integration, being able to play the music of mp4 files with cplay, as well. As cplay is only a small frontend to backend players, which understand the files formats, it was near to add just another backend player: mplayer -vo null. Simply adding playback wasn't that difficult, but getting the progression bar and seeking working was the critical part. I hacked two hours (while riding on the train), then I had it work- ing. [0] (I definitely should take some time to learn Python from the ground up!) At home, I searched the web, just to discover that the same work was done by others already -- not too surprisingly, actually. [1] [2] [3] [4] Looks as if there's some need for consolidation. I have an Wikipedia account for quite some time, but still I made the few edits during the last months anonymously. Today, for the first time, I edited being logged in. [5] It seemed worthwhile enough this time ... [0] http://marmaro.de/var/www/marmaro.de/prog/various/cplay- meillo.diff [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/cplay-dev/2011- 03/msg00000.html [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/cplay-dev/2011- 03/msg00001.html [3] https://github.com/hukka/cplay/blob/master/cplay#L6 [4] http://sysphere.org/~anrxc/j/archives/2011/04/02/introducing_play_a_fork_of_cplay/ [5] https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lone&diff=prev&oldid=148370285 http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke