About:

whistle aims to be a very minimalistic and basic audio player. Currently it can play mp3, flac and ogg files.

Basically, whistle is a nifty front-end to mplayer, which it's based on. Without mplayer, there would be no whistle. The earlier mpg123 back-end work is now completely done by mplayer.

Latest screenshot:

Prerequisites:

Perl Modules:

    - MP3::Info                     (archlinux-package: perl-mp3-info)
    - Curses::UI                    (archlinux-package: perl-curses-ui)
    - File::MimeInfo                (archlinux-package: perl-file-mimeinfo)
    - Ogg::Vorbis::Header::PurePerl (aur-package: perl-ogg-vorbis-header-pureperl)
    - Audio::FLAC::Header           (aur-package: perl-audio-flac-header)
    - LWP::UserAgent

Programs:

    - mplayer (mpg123 earlier)

Installation:

###ArchLinux:

packer -S mplayer perl-ogg-vorbis-header-pureperl \
          perl-audio-flac-header perl-mp3-info perl-curses-ui \
          perl-file-mimeinfo whistle-git

(you maybe need to replace 'packer' with your custom AUR-helper (yaourt, clyde, ...)

###Debian:

1. apt-get install git mplayer libncurses-ui-perl \
                   libmp3-info-perl libogg-vorbis-header-pureperl-perl \
                   ibaudio-flac-header-perl libfile-mimeinfo-perl
2. clone the git repository: (git clone https://github.com/ap0calypse/whistle.git)
3. run whistle and enjoy :)

###Slackware:

Whistle can be installed following these steps (all listed packages are either needed by whistle or are dependencies of each other) :

1. install sbopkg (http://www.sbopkg.org/downloads.php,-> 
   # installpkg sbopkg-version-noarch-1_cng.tgz)
2. run sbopkg and sync with slackbuilds.org (Sync with remote repository)
3. install the following packages:
    - perl-Audio-FLAC-Header
    - perl-Curses
    - perl-Curses-UI
    - perl-File-Which
    - perl-IPC-Run3
    - perl-IPC-System-Simple
    - perl-MP3-Info
    - perl-Module-Build
    - perl-Ogg-Vorbis-Header-PurePerl
    - perl-Probe-Perl
    - perl-TermReadKey
    - perl-Test-Script
    - perl-ExtUtils-depends
    - perl-ExtUtils-makemaker
    - perl-ExtUtils-pkgconfig
    - perl-file-basedir
    - perl-file-desktopentry
    - perl-file-mimeinfo
    - whistle
4. run whistle and enjoy :)

What works? a.k.a. Features:

    - full MP3/OGG/FLAC play/stop/next/prev/seek/shuffle support
    - progressbar
    - playlists
    - multi-select for playlist-editing
    - better and finer granulated equalizer (10 band)
    - per-song/album-equalizer (meaning: individual equalizer settings 
      for each title/album/artist)
    - lyrics fetching support
    - queue support (+/-)

What's to come?

    - a lot of bugfixes for sure
    - shuffle by artist/album
    - equalizer presets
    - color support
    - mp3 tag write support
    - burn playlist 2 iso or cd
    - ...
    - your feature request?

Usage:

whistle must be started within a fully functional terminal.

The first step is to add a music directory with 'A'. The standard usage scenario then is to select what you want to play and press 'P'.

Thanks:

• my girlfriend for beta-testing and giving me hints for improvements :)
• all the people testing and helping me to improve whistle :) (kmandla, matthew cox, smiszym, ...)
• all the supportive people of the arch-community :)
• all developers behind mpg123, mplayer and mpv
• all developers from Curses and Curses::UI
• all developers from MP3::Info
• all developers from Ogg::Vorbis::Header
• all developers from Audio::FLAC::Header
• mniip for debian install infos

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