Since you say that you'll develope a player in another projet in the future

[burak]

We've already two great video players in Linux (S/Mplayer and the excellent VLC), but not a single fully functional audio player among the huge pile of crap. A few have some merit, but even those lack something or other and non is an iTunes replacement.

Cantata (an MPD client) with its album cover grid view is in fact very fine and would even be better than iTunes if covers were drawn instantly (as in iTunes, YaRock and Banshee) when it's relaunched. Other than that it has everything: gapless playback, excellent playlists and playque management, support for large collections,global shortcuts and bit-perfect output (all three by means of mpd/mpc) etc. Yet it has another big problem: MPD itself. I've been an MPD fanboy, but have left it because of its unreliability (CPU anomalies, tendency to breake with messed up database etc.).

So if you can build something like Cantata (or iTunes) without its above mentioned shortcomings and (assuming you're thinking of an audio-video player) show as well a cover grid view of MKV/MP4 videos with embedded cover arts (like in VLC) that would be fantastic.

Edit: And please no KDE (and certainly not any Gnome) dependency.

[wang bin]

Firstly, so sorry that I reply so late. I didn't see it.

I will write a player and start a new project later, with morden ui. Currently I'm focusing on the library itself. It will be powerful and developer friendly. There are many features to do. Of cause, I will study your suggestions such as gapless playback.

Thanks for your advice.