MediaBox 0.96.5 is currently only in extras-devel. Thanks for giving early feedback without even having announced it.
The new version has a simplified user interface. I did listen to all your criticism and I am open to new criticism. As Un27Pee already told you, I'm very happy to get feedback and try to make this the best media player for the NITs.

ChangeLog of 0.96.5:

Support for LRC file format for music lyrics

Slideshow in the image viewer

Special lists "50 Recently Played" and "Bookmarked Files"

Sleep and wake up timer (fall asleep and wake up with music or FM radio)

Rewind and fast forward

Shuffle and repeat modes can be switched by clicking the status bar icons

Improved UI rendering performance and reduced memory footprint

Improved search feature with skipping to next and previous results (use up and down on the D-Pad)

Cleaner user interface

Thumbable scrollbar

Translucent dialog screens

Reduced startup time

mplayer backend doesn't intercept key presses anymore

Support for reference nodes in UPnP content directories

Bugfixes


EDIT: 0.96.5 of course, not 0.95.6. I'm starting to get confused with these sub-versions. The next release will hopefully be 0.97, not 0.96.5.1.