This page is under heavy construction. Mousikos is under heavier
construction.
mousikos is a GUI based portable audio player file manager.
It is designed to be able to support various types of portable
music players connected through the parallel port or a USB
port. It currently does not support any existing players. A fake player
mimicked by a directory on the hard disk is currently supported as proof
of concept of the rest of the features.
It is being developed under Linux. It is written in C.
It requires glib, gtk+ and gnome. I intend to un-gnome-ify
it sometime as some people only use KDE. It will always rely on
glib and gtk however. It is distributed under the GNU General Public
License (GPL) version
2 of June 1991.
It differs from other gui front-ends in two major ways:
It relies on playlists (m3u).
It filters on the fly from high bit rate file to low
bitrate files. In some cases this can be achieved by bit pealing (ogg to
ogg), in others by re-encoding. This allows more files to fit on the
player. The filtering capabilities are customizable so one could also
have, for example, 256KBps ogg VBR to a regular 112Kbps mp3s.
Other distinguishable features:
It uses a two pane window. One for player contents one
for playlist. Other player managers only have one with the player
contents
It can support multiple types of players. To add support
for a given player one file must be edited and two new files must be
created: <player_support>.c and <player_support>.h. I hope
this means that existing command line programs for other players can
be adapted easily for use within mousikos.
It features a bookmarks(hotlist) menu for quick access to
favorite playlists.
I need lots of help with this
so please contact if you want to help out or just have a few wishes or
suggestions.
You can email me at: sopho at users dot sourceforge dot net
