3 Sep
2004
3 Sep
'04
5:24 p.m.
Hi all,
I am pleased to announce the first beta release
(and the first public release, as well) of
Aqualung, a music player for GNU/Linux
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Homepage: http://aqualung.sf.net
Aqualung is a new music player for the GNU/Linux operating system.
It plays audio files from your filesystem and has the feature of
inserting _no_gaps_ between adjacent tracks.
Aqualung is released under the GNU General Public License.
Features at a glance
====================
Supported file formats:
* Almost all sample-based, uncompressed formats (eg. WAV, AIFF, AU
etc.), files encoded with FLAC (the Free Lossless Audio Codec), Ogg
Vorbis and MPEG Audio files (including, but not limited to, MP3) are
supported. Naturally, any of these files can be mono or stereo.
Supported output devices:
* OSS and ALSA driver interface, as well as support for connecting to
the JACK Audio Connection Kit.
Key features:
* Continuous, gap-free playback of consecutive tracks! Your ears get
exactly what is in the files -- no silence inserted in between.
* Ability to convert sample rates between the input file and the
output device, in high quality. (Thanks to libsamplerate!)
* LADSPA plugin support -- you can use any suitable LADSPA plugin to
enhance the music you are listening to.
Some other niceties:
* Internally working volume and balance controls (not touching the
soundcard mixer).
* Support for multiple skins; changing them is possible at any time.
* Support for random seeking during playback.
* Track repeat, List repeat and Shuffle mode (besides normal playback)
* All windows are sizable. You can stretch the main window
horizontally for more accurate seeking.
* State persistence via XML config files. Aqualung will come up in the
same state as it was when you closed it, including playback modes,
volume & balance settings, currently processing LADSPA plugins,
window sizes, positions & visibility, and other miscellaneous
options.
In addition to all this, Aqualung comes with a Music Store that is an
XML-based music database, capable of storing various metadata about
music on your computer (including, but not limited to, the names of
artists, and the titles of records and tracks). This is much more
efficient than the all-in-one Winamp/XMMS playlist.
Hope you will like this program. Please report any problems.
Tom
3 Sep
3 Sep
8:14 p.m.
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Tom Szilagyi wrote:
...
In addition to all this, Aqualung comes with a Music
Store that is an
XML-based music database, capable of storing various metadata about
music on your computer (including, but not limited to, the names of
artists, and the titles of records and tracks). This is much more
efficient than the all-in-one Winamp/XMMS playlist.
does it allow to edit mp3 info (tags)? (something close to easytag in
nature, maybe not that comlex)
I'm looking for some player with reasonable playlist management (i.e.
not playlist based like xmms:-) something like what freeamp does (I like
freeamp interface but it was too unstable every time I tried to use it
for a longer period).
erik
4 Sep
4 Sep
8:19 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] [ANN] Aqualung, a new music player for GNU/Linux
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 02:58:12PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
Tom Szilagyi wrote:
...
Not yet. It has its own system based on XML, independent of audio
files. It may allow importing mp3 tag data in the future. But the
system is not a one-for-one parallelism of what mp3 tags offer, so
it's not trivial.
In addition to all this, Aqualung comes with a
Music Store that is an
XML-based music database, capable of storing various metadata about
music on your computer (including, but not limited to, the names of
artists, and the titles of records and tracks). This is much more
efficient than the all-in-one Winamp/XMMS playlist.
does it allow to edit mp3 info (tags)? (something close to easytag in
nature, maybe not that comlex)
I'm looking for some player with reasonable
playlist management (i.e.
not playlist based like xmms:-) something like what freeamp does (I like
freeamp interface but it was too unstable every time I tried to use it
for a longer period).
Go ahead and see if it's good for you :)
Tom
6 Sep
6 Sep
7:39 p.m.
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Tom Szilagyi wrote:
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 02:58:12PM -0700, Erik Steffl
wrote:
went ahead, it seems to play ok (I don't really care much for the
gaps or no gaps, I usually listen with random on, there's nothing like
toy dolls playing toccata in Dm followed by aram kchatchaturian's sabre
dance, actually over time I started to appreciate the tiny gaps between
the songs, however short they might be, you can see sanity trying to
sneak in... :-) but I can't seem to get anything useful out of the
metadata you mentioned, there is this window that opens where I can
manually add artist but that's about it. Is that part not finished?
BTW as I wrote I liked the freeamp (and its MyMusic window) but it
was fairly unstable, now it was replaced by Zinf but it's still
unstable, I just installed it and it crashed once, got stuck in waiting
for something once... so there's definitely a spot open for a media
player that has a decent song/playlist management functionality...
erik
Tom Szilagyi wrote:
...
Not yet. It has its own system based on XML, independent of audio
files. It may allow importing mp3 tag data in the future. But the
system is not a one-for-one parallelism of what mp3 tags offer, so
it's not trivial.
In addition to all this, Aqualung comes with a
Music Store that is an
XML-based music database, capable of storing various metadata about
music on your computer (including, but not limited to, the names of
artists, and the titles of records and tracks). This is much more
efficient than the all-in-one Winamp/XMMS playlist.
does it allow to edit mp3 info (tags)? (something close to easytag in
nature, maybe not that comlex) I'm looking for some player with reasonable
playlist management (i.e.
not playlist based like xmms:-) something like what freeamp does (I like
freeamp interface but it was too unstable every time I tried to use it
for a longer period).
Go ahead and see if it's good for you :) 
4 Sep
4 Sep
6:49 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] [ANN] Aqualung, a new music player for GNU/Linux
On Friday 3 September 2004 20:02, Tom Szilagyi wrote:
Aqualung is a new music player for the GNU/Linux operating system.
It plays audio files from your filesystem and has the feature of
inserting _no_gaps_ between adjacent tracks.
I'm sure this is a cool program and I'll give it a try - but (and I hate to
admit it) the player I used to use when I was winslaved had a configurable
length of gap between tracks and could fade the next track in over the
fadeout of the previous one. Mostly, this was quite good but I would really
have liked them to be beatlocked.
For listening to classical music, I would use a 2-second gap without fading
because a short pause between movements is desirable.
Edward Barrow
6 Sep
6 Sep
5:20 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Aqualung, a new music player for GNU/Linux
Aqualung, a music player for GNU/Linux
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Homepage: http://aqualung.sf.net
this looks like it could be very useable!
Good to see another music player, especially
as alsaplayer is dormant.
with beta1 i had some problems. The first track
i played (via alsa interface) seemed to be at 48k
instead of 44k. And when i quit, it didnt release
the hardware, forcing me to reboot. Does that
make sense?
(cmi-pci, alsa 0.9.6)
many thanks!
--
Tim Orford
6:09 p.m.
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On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 08:59:08PM +0200, Tim Orford wrote:
Regarding the file: what was reported as its type? Was it correct?
(What was displayed in the main window's area starting with
'STEREO 44100 Hz etc.'...?)
Did you compile everything in, or left out some options (eg. SRC
support)?
I would be also glad if you could send me your command line options,
if you used anything special. Did you set a special parameter or
something?
I tested alsa with the plughw device, on a sb live and a more advanced
card, a terratec ews88mt (ice1712 based) card. Both seemed to
work. However, I have little experience with alsa, so there may be
problems with my code. (If anyone experienced would take a look at
src/core.c/alsa_thread() and alsa_init() I would be quite grateful...)
Oh, btw, I am using 1.0.0rc2 alsa software -- may there be some
interface changes since your version?
Feel free to flood me with any such details in priv. mail -- without
help and feedback , this software can never be successful.
Thanks,
Tom
Aqualung, a
music player for GNU/Linux
--------------------------------------
Homepage: http://aqualung.sf.net
this looks like it could be very useable!
Good to see another music player, especially
as alsaplayer is dormant.
with beta1 i had some problems. The first track
i played (via alsa interface) seemed to be at 48k
instead of 44k. And when i quit, it didnt release
the hardware, forcing me to reboot. Does that
make sense?
(cmi-pci, alsa 0.9.6)
7:01 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Aqualung, a new music player for GNU/Linux
with beta1 i
had some problems. The first track
i played (via alsa interface) seemed to be at 48k
instead of 44k. And when i quit, it didnt release
the hardware, forcing me to reboot. Does that
make sense?
(cmi-pci, alsa 0.9.6)
Regarding the file: what was reported as its type? Was it correct?
(What was displayed in the main window's area starting with
'STEREO 44100 Hz etc.'...?)
Did you compile everything in, or left out some options (eg. SRC
support)?
i ran configure without options
I would be also glad if you could send me your command line options,
if you used anything special. Did you set a special parameter or
something?
aqualung --output alsa hw:0,0 --period 4096 &
both the default output and period failed.
it would be easier to help if i knew how to reset alsa.
the init script restart failed, and rmmoding failed
with busy errors. Any ideas?
cheers!
--
Tim Orford
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