Dead Dumb Music Player

Sometimes I just want to play a few files and not have any of the bells and wistles the average music player comes with. In fact I looked at a whole bunch of music players that could fulfill this task in a reasonable way and didn't find any. Hence ddmp or Dead Dumb Music Player was born.

Features

• No library. Just a list of simple files, played sequentially.
• No metadata. If you just want to play a few random files why would you care about metadata?
• No bells or wistles. Seriously, I want to listen to a few files not have some visualisation, equaliser, unreadable skin or OMG such a cool gadget etc.
• Simple interface. It's boring, but fits in with GTK or GNOME apps quite nicely.

Basically, anything that the player doesn't do is done better by other applications. Personally I prefer Ex Falso / Quod Libet, but there are many alternatives.

Download & Requirements

You can grab the code and just run it withouth even installing it (in fact, installation is unsuppored currently). You will need a few dependencies though:

• Python: it's all written in a few hunderd lines of python. Version is unimportant right now although the other dependencies might be stricter on the python version.
• PyGTK modules: the GUI is written in GTK with the amazing python bindings of it. GTK+ 2.6 or higher is needed.
• Gazpacho: the GUI is build using this nice design tool, it saves on a lot of boring code. It was written using version 0.6.
• Gstreamer modules: this is an amazing framework that makes playing media really, really easy. Version 0.10 is needed.

If you are on a Debian-like system this can be simply done by:

Development

I've pretty much stopped being interested in this. It was a fun expriment but now I've found Decibel Audio Player which is pretty much what I wanted and way better. The code of ddmp is still here though:

If you want the most recent code or want to modify it yourself you can get the code using Bazaar Version Conrol by pointing it to my branch:

Contributions welcome! But bear in mind that I don't really want any new features. There are many usability improvements to be made though, this list should give you a feel of what I classify as "usability improvement": slider, column with music length, delete-key binding, right-click context menu, pause functionality, ...