Waif is a console audio unfrontend. That means
that between the business of choosing the files to
listen to and listening to them, there is no
interface to hijack a controlling terminal, hog up
screen space, or waste a perfectly good xterm. It
also ends the hassle of restarting a player moving
from one display to another. Waif works all its
magic in the background leaving you free to do
more important work. Waif is flexible and robust,
supporting a wide number of file formats (MP3,
Ogg, WAV, RealPlayer, MIDI, audio CD, and more)
and a wide number of helper applications including
mpg123, mpg321, ogg123, freeamp, and xmms.
