- what is it?
mixplayd is a daemon that can be told (over a tcp connection) to play mp3 (and now also ogg) files
from the local file system (where the daemon resides). It cannot be controlled
directly but with telnet.
It has a built-in multi-channel mixer, so you can play several files
on different channels with different volumes simultanously. This is very
useful for crossfading between songs.
Another very useful feature is the change of the number of channels and even
the number of soundcards and named pipes at run time!
Yes, it also supports unix named pipes, so you can run it even without a
soundcard!
The main purpose of mixplayd is to use it with special clients
(= frontends) which can be found
here (when they're developed).
A sample perl-client is included with the package.
mixplayd doesn't come with its own decoder, instead it needs a preinstalled
working decoder. I strongly recommend madplay from underbit Technologies which
can be obtained for free from
http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/.
For OggVorbis support you also
need an external decoder like ogg123 of the
vorbis-tools.
- who wants to use it?
noone directly,
everyone needs a (controlling) client to use it (e.g. to play a whole playlist).
so this is a call to developers that mixplayd can help them building new
powerful tools for working with mp3 (and OggVorbis) audio.
- more information
read this README of the current release.
- license
mixplayd is developed by Siegfried Wagner
and published under the
GNU General Public License (GPL).
you can find more information about GNU at
the GNU homepage.
I would appreciate any feedback - so feel free to send an email to
red_eagle@users.sourceforge.net.
- the sourceforge project page
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mixplayd/
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