Beep Media Player 0.9.7 review

BMP is a multimedia player that currently uses a skinned user interface based on Winamp 2.x skins

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Chong Kai Xiong

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BMP is a multimedia player that currently uses a skinned user interface based on Winamp 2.x skins. It was forked from XMMS.

The original project name was "beep". Then we discovered that another project of the same name existed, and extended it to "Beep Media Player" to distinguish the two.

This new name is of course cumbersome to type, so it was informally shortened to BMP (or sometimes BeepMP) for everyday usage. Along the way, somehow or another, some of the developers no longer recognize it as an acronym. There is still no official word on whether to drop the original form. But whatever happens, the name BMP is here to stay.

Milosz Derezynski started hacking on XMMS alone in the fall of 2003 and eventually made it compile against GTK+2. He went on to release it to the public under the name 'Beep' and stirred up considerable interest among XMMS users who were eager to move their favourite application to GTK+2. From that moment on, the way was clear.

Requirements:
Build requirements

Glib >= 2.4
GTK+ >= 2.4
libglade >= 2.3.1

Optional requirements

ID3v2 tag editing support: id3lib >= 3.8
Vorbis input plugin: libvorbis >= 1.0
ESD output plugin: esound >= 0.2.3
ALSA output plugin: alsa-lib >= 1.0
GNOME VFS support: gnome-vfs >= 2.6.0
GConf support: GConf >= 2.6.0

Note for *BSD users:
To avoid crashes on exit with some plugins enabled, force linking with the C++ library with LDFLAGS='-lstdc++ -lm'. E.g.:

LDFLAGS='-lstdc++ -lm' ./configure

What's New in This Release:
New command-line option to bring BMP to desktop foreground (--activate)
New compile-time option select XMMS equalization (--with-xmms-eq).
Running beep-media-player --version now prints built-in optional components
Fixed removal of dead playlist entries
Fixed dependency information in pkg-config file (bmp.pc)
Fixed and disambiguated playlist editor accelerators
Hacked around playlist editor shade bug (now always unshades on launch)
Many others (see Bugzilla and ChangeLog)
Refined UI to better conforming to the GNOME HIG.
New logo and icons.
New About and Preferences dialogs.
New file browser using GTK's new filechooser.
Skin cursor support.
New equalizer using IIR filters from EQU (http://equ.sf.net)
ID3v2 editing support (require id3lib).
*EXPERIMENTAL* GNOME-VFS support.
GConf support.
Memory leaks.
Fixed removal of dead playlist entries.
Fixed l10n and i18n