Plaiter (pronounced "player") is a command line front end to command
line music players. It uses shell scripting to try to create the
command line music player that Plait would have used if it already
existed. It complements Plait but is also quite useful on its own,
especially if you already use mpg123 or similar programs and find
yourself wanting more features.
What does Plaiter do that (say) mpg123 can't already? It queues tracks,
first of all. Secondly, it understands commands like play, plause,
stop, next and prev. Finally, unlike most of the command line music
players out there, Plaiter can handle a play list with more than one
type of audio file, selecting the proper helper app to handle each
type of file you throw at it.
Plaiter will automatically configure itself to use ogg123, mpg123,
and/or mpg321, if they are installed on your system. If you have a
helper application that plays other types of audio, Plaiter can be
configured to use it as well.
Like many of us, Plaiter is part daemon and part controller. The
controller builds a play list from the files you provide on the
command line and forwards commands to the daemon. The daemon reads
commands and executes them by running helper applications.
Options
--daemon,-d
daemon mode
--queue,-q
add tracks to queue
--enqueue
add tracks to queue
--random
random shuffle
--play
play
--pause
toggle pause mode
--stop,-s
stop
--latch [on|off]
toggle or set stop after current track
--next,-n [n]
skip forward [n tracks]
--prev [n]
skip backward [n tracks]
--search
search in playlist
--rsearch
reverse search in playlist
--reset,-r
play track 1
--loop [on|off]
toggle or set loop mode
--quit
quit daemon
--status
show status
--list,-l
show playlist
--help
show help
--version
show version
-v
be verbose
Copyright
Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 by Stephen Jungels. Released under the GPL.
The Humdrum Toolkit provides a set of free software tools intended
to assist in music research. The toolkit is suitable for use in a
wide variety of computer-based musical tasks.
The Humdrum web site contains a
comprehensive collection of over 200 web pages providing both
detailed and summary information concerning all aspects of the
Humdrum Toolkit.
About 15% of the code is written in C,
another 15% in kornshell, and about 2% using the
LEX lexical parser and YACC compiler-compiler.
The bulk of the code is written in AWK.
Questions that can be answered in Humdrum are:
Determine the rhyme scheme for a vocal text.
Identify any French sixth chords.
Locate instances of the pitch sequence D-S-C-H in Shostakovich's music.
Are German drinking songs more likely to be in triple meter.
Determine whether Haydn tends to avoid V-IV progressions.
Locate any doubled seventh scale degrees.
(For a longer list of such questions, see the Humdrum
sample problems page.
