Why there are over 2 dozen music players
People often groan when they hear of someone making another game of Tetris, Window Manager, or audio program. After all, people ask, “Do we really need another? Why can’t you just contribute to fixing annoying bug X in gTetris/KDE/xmms?” I’ve always been on the side of the argument that said - “So what! They’re doing it for free. Not only that, but they’re not getting paid for this. It’s their hobby. So you can’t tell them what to make. If they don’t WANT to help Amarok, then leave them alone. Don’t download their program and they will eventually lose interest.” I’ve never been one for telling people what they should do in their spare time.
But I never stopped to think about what motivated people to create this program of which there are already hundreds. I just always assumed it was an ego thing - so it would be a program THEY created. Alternatively, I also recognized there is SOME scope for a few different players. For example, what if you hate Mono? Then you won’t want Banshee. So it’s nice to have Rhythmbox. Or maybe you run KDE and don’t want to have to load the GTK libraries so it’s nice to have Amarok. And if you want to jam out, but don’t want to have such a high memory footprint you can run xmms. Or, if you’re one of the spartans who shuns the GUI there’s mpg123. But after that why create another?
Recently an alternative reason for creating the umpteenth thing came to me.
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