Again, I made a switch. I switched from XMMS to Beep Media Player. BMP emerged from code of XMMS, that was ported to GTK+2 in 2003. XMMS is stuck with GTK+1.2 for almost two years now. Apart from that is is actually the same user interface. However, as BMP approaches it’s 1.0 version I expect other wise additions and changes in the future. Due to the newer graphic library it uses BMP looks much better and appears to inegrate much smoother with the rest of my GNOME desktop.
Getting GNOME to open music files with BMP instead of an other application was, however, rather complicated. I had to uninstall a number of other music players before GNOME accepted my choice to play music with BMP. There should be better mime/application management in GNOME in general, because I use many applications that GNOME somehow doesn’t want me to use (read: that are not GNOME standard applications). Let’s see what next releases of GNOME bring in that area. Otherwise I’m quite happy at this moment.
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