moc (http://moc.daper.net/) is a console based music player for linux.

My wmdockapp (directory view) (.tgz), which I should really rename, is a little applet to control moc.

After starting moc playing through a playlist, either by running the console interface or with mocp -p or whatever, the moc applet can be used to pause/unpause playing (middle-click), skip backwards and forwards through the playlist (right-click, left-click), and pop up the current song title (via xmessage) (shift-click).

It happens to do just what I want, and I put it up here just in case it does what anyone else wants. You need libxpm-dev to compile. make, sudo make install. Er, and you need moc. It's in debian/ubuntu as 'moc'.

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Most of the code is the wmdockapp base. Someone else wrote that.