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This is an old revision of pmusicFrontends made by zigbert on 2017-03-29 15:09:49.
Frontends
Knowledge
The pMusic play-engine is a separated module. You can play audio with it either using the commandline or the more common solution; operate through a frontend. This is a graphical layer that manage input to the engine (backend). pMusic offers several frontends for specific targets. The default frontend is meant to offer all the goodies in one gui, while other frontends is specialized to do specific tasks better than the bloated default gui. You can choose another default frontend in the preferences.Let's take a look a the most common frontends:
Manager
This is the default frontend you meet when choosing pMusic from the menu or executing 'pmusic' in a terminal. At first sight it might look as a simple player - and that is why it looks like it does. But the gui expands quickly to become a much more complex player. The Manager frontend supports most options you'll find in the backend and configuration. The following images shows how the simple pMusic becomes a pilot cockpit...
Radio
A simple frontend to manage internet radio.
CD
pMusic offers all functionality of any average CD player/ripper. This frontend collects these functions.
Podcast
pMusic 5.2 added a heavily improved support of Podcasts, and 5.4 naturally shipped a specialized frontend to manage this.
