AudioPreview

This post announces the release of the second version of AudioPreview: AudioPreview 0.2

This version is a proper and well tested version. If you see any bug, please refer to the bug page to see how to submit a bug report (the 'bug' page will be added soon).

New features:

• Added --volume option, to change the initial output volume.
  • audiopreview -V 85 *.mp3
• Added option --entirely to play each stream entirely.
  • audiopreview -e http://radio/
• Added --shuffle option to shuffle the playlist before playing 1st stream.
  • audiopreview -S *.*
  • audiopreview -S -e *.* (to play all your files entirely!)

Fixes:

• "loading file..." is now shown only in verbose mode. It was obstrusive.
• Fixed segmentation fault and added warnings when stream is not found.
• Fixed and improved a bit the documentation.

Features from previous versions:

• Preview hundreds of media files without any freeze/lag:
  • audiopreview *.*
• You can set the playing duration:
  • audiopreview -d 65 yourfile.ogg anotherfile.mp3
• Change the position from where to start playin:
  • audiopreview -p 1 somefiles.*  to preview a part in the middle of each file
• You can preview anything (using Gstreamer plugins):
  • audio files (mp3, ogg, rm, flac, ...)
  • video files (avi, mpg, vorbis, mkv, ...)
  • internet streams, etc... !
    • audiopreview video.avi http://coolradio:port/ coolfile.ogg
• For videos, you can even watch them!
  • You can disable this behaviour by using the -a option: audiopreview -a video.avi
• Shows the current song for streams and audio files (if available)
• Shows the current elapsed time and total time (if available)
• Use it as a normal media player (play till the file's end)
  • audiopreview -e file.ogg
  • audiopreview -e http://radio:port/

Download.