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1 Description:
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3 cplay is a curses front-end for various audio players. It aims
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4 to provide a power-user-friendly interface with simple filelist
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5 and playlist control. cplay is written in Python and can use
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6 either pyncurses or the standard curses module.
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8 Requirements:
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10 - cplay http://www.tf.hut.fi/~flu/cplay/
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11 - python http://www.python.org/
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12 - python-oss (optional) http://net.indra.com/~tim/ossmodule/
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13 - mpg321 (optional) http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpg321/
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14 - ogg123 (optional) http://www.vorbis.com/
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15 - mpg123 (optional) http://www.mpg123.org/
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16 - splay (optional) http://splay.sourceforge.net/
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17 - madplay (optional) http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/
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18 - mikmod (optional) http://www.mikmod.org/
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19 - fintl (optional) http://www.python.org/sigs/i18n-sig/
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20 - pyncurses (optional) http://pyncurses.sourceforge.net/
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21 - ID3-py (optional) http://id3-py.sourceforge.net/
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22 - pyvorbis (optional) http://www.duke.edu/~ahc4/pyogg/
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23 - xmp (optional) http://xmp.sf.net/
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24 - sox (optional) http://sox.sf.net/
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25 - speex (optional) http://www.speex.org/
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27 Installation:
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29 make install
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31 Usage:
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33 cplay [-nrRv] [ file | dir | playlist ] ...
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35 When in doubt, press 'h' for a friendly help page.
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37 Configuration:
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39 If you would like to change options passed to the actual players
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40 just edit the PLAYERS list in the cplay script or put the PLAYERS
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41 definition in either ~/.cplayrc or /etc/cplayrc. If one of these
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42 files is available, it is executed by cplay before initialization.
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44 Note, currently there is no version control for the rc-file!
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46 Miscellaneous:
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48 In order for either mp3info (ID3) or ogginfo to work,
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49 both corresponding python modules have to be installed.
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50 This will probably change someday.
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52 A playlist can contain URLs, but the playlist itself will
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53 have to be local. For mpeg streaming, splay is recommended.
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55 It is also possible to pipe a playlist to cplay, as stdin
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56 will be reopened on startup unless it is attached to a tty.
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58 Remote control via /var/tmp/cplay_control; see lircrc.
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