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About
Mp3blaster is an mp3 player for computers running a UNIX-like
operating system, e.g. Linux, Free/Net/OpenBSD, etc. Its interface is
entirely text based, thereby eliminating the need for a graphical
environment like X-Windows. This does not limit the way you can
control the player whilst playing though; just like any graphical
mp3 player, there are cd-style buttons like play, stop, pause, next
track, etc.
History
While hardly anyone had ever heard of mp3 back in early 1997, I began to
build up my own mp3 collection. As a Linux (text console) adept, I was
heavily frustrated by the lack of a decent mp3 player. There was a (at
the time) very popular command-line based mp3 player though, called
'splay'. I figured I could use its mpeg decoding library and write my
own interface in ncurses to control it. The plan was there!
Thinking about how to implement this interface, I also wondered why all
mp3players had such plain playlist functionality! I like the ability to
chuck a bunch of CD's in a multi-CD cd player, and then play the CD's in
random order. In such a way that the cd player selects one of the five
CD's at random, and then plays the entire disc. This continues, until all
discs have been played. No mp3 player could do this, so I decided to add
it to mine.
The first usable version (0.9.0, named 'mp3player', how's that for
originality?) reared its ugly head in august 1997. Since then, lots of
things have changed.. You can read the ChangeLog supplied with the source
if you are interested in it.
Suggestions?
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