[MPlayer-users] play audio in window (gui)

[Thomas Keller]

On 2016-06-13 10:20, Ingo Brückl wrote:
> Thomas Keller wrote on Mon, 13 Jun 2016 09:43:32 +0200:
> 
>> when I open audio file from commandline, such as
> 
>>   mplayer my_audio.mp3
> 
>> mplayer plays the audio inside the commandline.
> 
>> How can I tell it to open a window, same as when playing video file ?
> 
> Maybe you want to give MPlayer's GUI (gmplayer) a shot? You will have a main
> window for each file being played separately.
> 
> Ingo

there is no gmplayer package in Debian.

And besides, do I really need to install extra package for this?

Mplayer works OK for playing videos already. Can't I tell it to treat
audios the same ?