Why people prefer heavy music players and heavy programs in general?

> le 2MB memory usage on my 32GB RAM machine le meme
you are the cancer linux is dead on the desktop
get your shit together and support KDE Plasma

>>59107455
This

>>59107455

>don't try to run effecient programs!
>why don't you love the bloat?

neo-/g/

>>59107488
what bloat you fucking retarded child? you don't even have playlists there. even if you did find the way to do it on text files, you'd give cancer to people that actually want to do it on a proper interface.
get the fuck out. interfaces exist for a reason retarded shit.
your fucking memes are exactly what kill the linux desktop

>>59107523
>to people that actually want to do it on a proper interface.

Why would I care what other people want to do?

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>>59107439

use cmus

>>59107523
>Waaa waa you do not like what I like
>Therefore, Linux desktop is kill
Gtfo of my board newfag

False dichotomies aside, you raise a legitimate concern. Based purely on anecdotal evidence and speculation I would assume featuritis and severe bloat is brought about by users (and project managers) who demand more and more unnecessary features based on their own selfish desires. And people would prefer too many features that they can ignore than a minimal streamlined experience that doesn't perfectly accommodate their needs.

A program like suckless surf is appealing for its responsible use of resources but the keybindings for navigation are noncustomizable despite being nonstandard and your WM has to support their special snowflake tab programme so when you buy into surf you're all in. Compare this with bloated botnet chrome and for some people they will gladly trade their privacy for a bit of convenience. But chrome is giving me retarded SSL errors in that's-real-fuckin'-incognito mode rn so I'm using Firefox.

In conclusion, install gentoo.

>>59107439
I prefer mocp. It's simple and comfy.

>>59107523
MPlayer natively support playlists. And yes, they are text files. It's very useful — you can just pipe the output of some program (ls, for example) to the file and you'll get legitimate playlist. It's superior to any GUI interface just because you can run any GUI or CLI program (or several piped programs) to do it, and you are not limited to your player's interface.
>>59107560
>cmus Caramelldansen.mp3
>nothing happened
>man cmus-tutorial
>Press 5 to switch to the file-browser view so we can add some music.
I think you missed my point. While it's a command-line program (and probably a lightweight one) it's not suitable for piping and tries to be everything.

>>59107675
why are you using mplayer then? why not cat the file into /dev/dsp?

>>59107550
>Why would I care what other people want to do?
HOLY SHIT YOU STUPID NIGGER YOU LITERALLY ASKED ABOUT OTHER PEOPLES PREFERENCE IN THE OP

>>59107488
they don't understand that the 70s-2000s era of computing was "do one thing well" applications. they can't go back and neither can we

>>59107439
we get it
you use linux
good for you

Does this support syncing my music with the cloud?

>>59107777
sure just use rsync and chron

>>59107699
Well, compressed audio files will produce nothing but noise if played this way.
But you do raise a legitimate point that program needs to have some features. I will prefer to play .wav file using mplayer rather than cat, all because of pause, scroll and displaying progress. However, those are features of a music player, and not of some other program. As such, implementing them in separated fashion seems unnecessary.

>>59107675


if that's what you decided for yourself that's good for you anon

I think one day you'll come around and use cmus though when you do want to manage all your songs in one place and make playlists and queues. iirc cmus only gives you one playlist and one queue anyway. It doesn't scan your entire system, you have to choose the path directly to your music by doing

:a /path/to/music

cmus does nothing but lets you play the songs you have, it does not do anything extra

>>59107439
Unix philosophy is a meme. Also, Linux is the better Unix

>>59107439
>mp3
>all that useless info displayed

>>59108064
That might be true — I don't have music playing in background. Because of that, I prefer to treat music files as any other file, opening them only when desired. However, when I do want to have background music, I listen to online streams. If I will ever decide to expand my local collection instead and play it in background, more complex music player might be of use (although I do not understand why I can't just create playlists of said hypothetical collection and then use mplayer to play it; but again, if I would want to define a new playlist every time, cmus will be more convenient).
Thus, I think I've got my answer — complex players might be more convenient in case of music playing on a constant basis. Thanks for that.
>>59108104
Linux is indeed the system I am using, but aforementioned philosophy is named after UNIX.
>>59108130
That's true, I usually don't look anywhere but the last (with progress) string. It don't really bothers me though — it's just a text and not an interface element.
About mp3 — well, I try to add everything in flac now, but older things are still in mp3 because it was hard to care about slight losses while using dialup and I'm too lazy to replace them.

i love you op

minimalism!

also CLI > GUI

they mad.

>>59107439
Most people enjoy rich UI and easily accessible content.

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>>59107488
Believe it or not but there is software out there that both have an intuitive GUI and run on minimal resources.

>>59108893
Less than 64k?
Kind of a deal breaker.