ANNOUNCE: SnackAmp 2.0b1 Release
Tom W
Mp3, Ogg Vorbis audio/music player, playlister and file manager. SnackAmp
uses
the snack sound engine as the underlying player.
The latest version as dozens of improvments including:
- Added internal web server to allow remote access and control.
- User Manual cleaned up and made easier to use. Web server
is used it to serve help files which are embedded in the wrapped version of
SnackAmp.
- Incorporated Csaba Nemethi's fantastic tablelist widget in the Auto
playlist to show details on each track located in the folder. You may
select which columns are shown and adjust sorting and width to your
liking.
- Lots of improvements to Auto playlist manager including drag-n-drop
folders/files to the playlist, searching for folders and files from the
Auto playlist and additional menu options.
- Much improved ID3 tag editing. From the tag editor you may now edit
multiple files such that a change is applied to all files. There are also
table editors for converting tag to name and vise versa. Changes you make
to the fields are now indicated with a light red background.
- Much improved settings form using tab like pages. Many more settings
are now user adjustable.
- Cleaned up internal code somewhat to ease maintenance.
- Minor look and feel changes, using single pixel borders to look a bit
more modern.
- Option to fade the volume down on a stop or pause rather than abruptly
cut it off. (like winamp).
- In wrapped version, folders no longer have to have matching [] and ()
(Bug #1).
The freewrapped version for Windows and Linux use snack 2.1.6 To use
SnackAmp with
the Tcl/Tk scripts, you need snack 2.1.4 or greater on all platforms.
SnackAmp is well suited for personal, office or educational environments
where numerous (thousands) of songs shared by many users, and possibly
spread over multiple computers. Its auto-play list features make it easy
to tailor your play lists to your liking.
SnackAmp is found on source forge, the home page is
http://snackamp.sourceforge.net/index.html
You can download the latest version, including CVS at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/snackamp/
The latest readme file and release history can be found at:
http://snackamp.sourceforge.net/readme.html
The snack sound engine can be found at
http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/
Problems or suggestions should be reported to
Tom Wilkason - tom.wi...@cox.net
Please let me know of any problems found or suggestions for improvements.
Enjoy,
Tom Wilkason
sean inglis
> I am pleased to announce SnackAmp 2.0 Beta 1 - a cross platform Tcl/Tk
> based Mp3, Ogg Vorbis audio/music player, playlister and file manager.
> SnackAmp uses
> the snack sound engine as the underlying player.
>
<snip lots of features>
This has instantly replaced XMMS as my default player.
Great stuff, thanks.
Sean