Collections in the XMMS2 music player
This is a repost from the article published in LWN and mentioned earlier on this blog. Thanks to LWN for publishing it in the first place, and to all the people who proofread and commented on it! I hope this will serve as a more up-to-date introduction to Collections in XMMS2 (I should probably post it on the wiki). Discussion is welcome, naturally.
The number of music players on Linux has been steadily increasing lately, but while these projects have been getting more and more polished, we have yet to see revolutionary improvements in terms of user experience. Indeed, the trend has privileged borrowing as many features as possible from other projects, rather than questioning the reasons behind their design.
This article describes XMMS2’s attempt to address long-standing limitations of music players, through its new support for Collections. First, I will summarize the rationale behind this feature, then present its concept and implementation. A conclusion about the current state and future directions of Collections will close the article.
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