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System Name: satyr
Name: satyr audio player
Group Type: non-GNU software & documentation

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This project is not part of the GNU Project.

It pretends to have the following features:

  • The PlayList and the Collection(s)[0] are the same thing.
  • Yours is a Collection of Albums, nothing else[3].
  • Some Albums are from the same artists and some are compilations[3].
  • If you want an ephemeral playlist you could queue songs[1].
  • If you want non-ephemeral playlists, then this player is not for you.
  • Ability to search à la xmms, but in the same interface[2]
  • Tag reading and writing[3].
  • Order you collection based on the tags[3].
  • The collection discovers new files and adds them to the playlist on the fly[4].
  • Be able to use all the program only with your keyboard (die, mouse, die!)

This and other features should be available soon. The coding has been fast lately, mainly because the Qt/KDE libs are fantastic to work with. The only thing I couldn't do was to read the tags before playing them, so I relied in taglib and its python binding, tagpy.

[0] The support for several collections is not complete yet.

[1] Functionality available via dbus only at the moment.

[2] This is with the current GUI. I'm also thinking in several/pluginable GUI's

[3] Not yet available.

[4] Of course this only works if it's running. Otherwise, you can
always ask for a rescanning[1]

Registration Date: Wed 30 Sep 2009 10:43:52 PM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
Development Status: 4 - Beta

 

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0.1-beta1 release
     posted by styxman, Fri 20 Nov 2009 04:47:35 PM UTC - 0 replies

Yes, it's unbelievable, but we managed to make a release. Yes, it's a beta1, but a release nevertheless. Features so far?

* Multi-Collection support. Not that we do much about it.
* read tags
* Discover new music as it's added in the filesystem.
* On-the-fly search.
* Play files with any filename (this is not as simple as it seems).
* Skins (only two).

Go get it from the Download section.

skins!
     posted by styxman, Mon 16 Nov 2009 10:33:02 AM UTC - 0 replies

This weekend I was rather bored, so I set off to implement skins in satyr, and they work! who knows, maybe for next weekend we'll have a proper setup.py and will be able to make a release! stay tuned!

Branch ready for beta testing
     posted by styxman, Mon 26 Oct 2009 11:00:00 PM UTC - 0 replies

After fixing the last bugs we could, we consider that this branch is ready for massive comsumption. There are already a couple of bugs listed, two of them that depend on a technical decision, but for the rest is running ok. We plan for a release next Saturday, yay!

New branch
     posted by styxman, Sat 10 Oct 2009 06:17:49 PM UTC - 1 reply

Since a week ago there's a new branch where I'm introducing code that reads audio file metadata (a.k.a. tags), which will also let us modify and write it. The branch can be pulled as follows:

bzr branch sftp://bzr.savannah.nongnu.org/srv/bzr/satyr/playlist-model/

Currently it lacks of the ability to save the Collection, which means that it's scanned at startup, but otherwise works really fine. I hope to finish with it soon, so I can merge it in trunk and go for the next step.


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