Splay - The audio player

[features]

Splay is an audio player, primarily for console use. It works on Linux systems, currently, and although it is likely that it can be ported to other similar unix systems, it has not been tested (as far as I know).

It is written in C++ and uses the mpegsound library, the code for the actual interface to this library is not that large (approx 450 lines).

Splay plays MPEG-1 layer 1,2,3 and MPEG-2 layer 3.

WWW Streaming is supported, (e.g. http://www.foo-bar.org/some/kind_of.mp3).

ID3 tags version 1 & 2 supported by external id3 library id3lib (optional)

There is both a command line program and a gui available for splay. The gui is written with QT, it's by no means as attractive as XMMS, but it does exist if you want it.

[blurb]

The author of splay is Woo-jae Jung <jwj95@nownuri.net>, but he is not to be found, so I have taken over maintaininership.

[changes]

In 0.9.5.1 and 0.9.5.2

Bugfix

In 0.9.5

Start at specified frame with -k option.

In 0.9.4

Print a genre name instead of the cryptic number

In 0.9.3

Build xsplay if qt is available

In 0.9.2

Display frame and time info with -f
Defaults to try to open /dev/sound/dsp id /dev/dsp fails
Patch from Rob McMullen <rob@akvo.com>, to fix problem with some ID3v2 tags

In 0.9.1

New automake system that I understand. Goes with a reorder of the directory system.
Added TODO file

In 0.9

Now uses id3lib for id3 tags.
If playing multiple files, SIGINT (normally Control-c) exits the current file and plays the next. Two SIGINT in a row (not too fast though) stops the program.

[download]

Latest:: version 0.9.5.2 - gzipped tarball
Brians release:: version 0.8.3 - gzipped tarball
See what's available at: http://splay.sourceforge.net/tgz/

[thanks]

To Brian Russo for setting this page up, and handing it over to me.

Mikael Hedin

Last modified: Sun Sep 9 18:15:52 CEST 2001