Free play windows software for linux

Play What I Mean project allows a user to, from a single commandline or terminal, enter a string, or list of strings, that represent what he/she wishes to have played by whatsoever media player he chooses, the default being MPlayer, and then having that particular item be found and played.
What this essentially means is that if I were to have a sudden hankering to listen to a particular song or video, lets say Ice Pick by The Pillows, which happens to be the song to a particular music video that I enjoy watching. Under the traditional methods of video viewing I would be stuck with two potential courses of action for playing this particular file:
- Change directories several times to that one folder somewhere that I "know" its in, or
- Point and Click my mouse until I find that same directory and then search through what could be countless files to find it.
Each of these prospective choices have their own inherent difficulties and ire. Using the commandline often requires alot of typing to arrive at the desired directory, often times nestled deep within the tree.
Once there your problems only multiply by the number of files you actually store in your "media" folder, try ls | moreing through a heavily populated folder looking for the name of that file you wanted to play sometime, it isnt too fun and further is a waste of my valuable time.
You may be thinking at this point that the second option, the graphical one, must be easier since its exciting, full of pictures, and frankly novel, I disagree. I may not be the best judge on this matter, seeing as how I cant see out of my right eye however, I feel that scanning through a large folder, or folders, full of files is quite a strain on the vision, and more importantly an unnescesary burden on what should be a simple matter.
Main features:
- Nestable Playlist support
- Multi-string arguments
- Transparent command option passing
- Cache for faster access of frequently played files
- Graphical configure

SMPlayer is a utility to play media file via the media player MPlayer. Files can be selected by a File-Selection-Dialog or by Drag-and-Drop.

By now it supports only basic functionality:

Select File, Play File, Seek, Switch to Fullscreen, adjust volume.
During playback a progress bar is shown.

Many users prefer Gnome Window Manager but cant go without Amarok. Gnome Play Video in Totem allows Gnome Users to view video or audio externally in Totem.

This is very useful for Video Podcasts.

The AVI player is a plug-in for XMMS, giving it the ability to play Windows AVI (including DivX ;-)) and ASF files on your Linux or FreeBSD box.
You can simply add movies to your playlist and the plug-in will call aviplay to play the movie files. Many aviplay options are supported, such as fullscreen playback and true hardware acceleration on XFree86 4.x.x.
Enhancements:
- Included a stripped version of avifile 0.53.5 that compiles staticly into the plugin. This will make avi-xmms work no matter what avifile version you have installed on the system.
- Added wma and wmv support.

AmaroK now playing is a script that displays the song you are currently playing with amaroK.

Add it to, /usr/share/apps/konversation/scripts

Then add it to command aliases

Konversation > settings > command aliases

For example: alias: np ;replacement: /exec np

Linux Telephone Answering Device (lintad) is a fax and voicemail application.

It uses a softmodem as a soundcard attached to the phoneline to play greetings and record messages.

Messages and faxes are made available to browsers via Apache and PHP.

XMMS Now Playing plugin outputs information of the song currently being played in XMMS to specified text files. It supports ID3 tags (using libid3tag from MAD project) and has some other bells and whistles.

This is a now playing plugin for XMMS, replacement for song_change.so

This is a really quick hack, but it works for me.

song_change.so (song change plugin) is included in XMMS package and provides
somewhat relative functionality, but with some limitations.

Improvements:

1. support for id3/id3v2 tags via libid3tag from MAD
2. support for additional conditions (if paused, if playing, etc..) not just playing/end of playlist reached.