mplayer handles filesystem wildcards beautifully.

Well no, your shell does. And there are limits to how many matches, for a more robust way use find.

As for the post topic. I use xmms2 with a small script bound to the windows-keys, left for play/pause and the right opens a file selector to load new files.

Sure, but the us election system makes starting new parties and having them matter almost impossible.

More often than not that is corporate speak for “we fired the old team and replaced them with cheaper workers. And we didn’t want to pay them to learn the old code/they tried but failed, so we are dumping features now”