OpenBSD and FreeBSD users, behold!

Audiopreview has now ports available for both OpenBSD and FreeBSD!
Big thanks to Kevin Lo (kevlo.org) who created the ports and notified me.

Links to the ports trees:

• Audiopreview port for FreeBSD
• Audiopreview port for OpenBSD

Enjoy!

A few months ago, Audiopreview has joined the Debian repositories. This, of course lead to it eventually being added to Ubuntu repositories. And this is what happened.

Audiopreview is now available in Lucid Lynx, which is the new 10.04 version of Ubuntu that is due to be released on April 29th 2010.

If you are already running a pre-release version of Ubuntu Lucid, you can try audiopreview by installing through Synaptics or just type:

sudo apt-get install audiopreview

Enjoy, and feel free to send your feedback!

This version contains a few fixes and features. Upgrading is recommended.

If you find any bug, please refer to the bug page to see how to submit a bug report.

New features:

• New shortcut 'R' restarts playing the current stream (see manpage for more details)
• New shortcut 'P' plays the previous stream in the queue list
• Now shows [paused] when stream is paused, instead of [playing]
• Capital letter equivalents are now accepted for shortcuts

Fixes:

• Fixed not showing stream title/duration when STDERR is a file.
• Fixed "g_set_prgname" multiple-call warning
• Lots of code clean-up

Download.

This version contains bugfixes and cool features.

If you find any bug, please refer to the bug page to see how to submit a bug report.

New features:

• Display is now in colors! See screenshots!
• Added --colors=TYPE to select when to show colors (type: yes, auto or no)
• Added --loop/-l to activate the loop mode, plays all the streams in a loop.
• Improved anti line-wrapping (for when the terminal is being shrunk)

Fixes:

• Fixed running audiopreview in background and being stopped by SIGTTIN.

• Fixed error when DISPLAY environment variable is undefined or empty, it now plays without video support (like --no-video).
• Fixed a bad placed new line that was printed when a stream was done playing.

Download.

This version introduces some more fixes and a few new features.

Note that this version is stable enough for personal uses and would probably be suitable for production uses.

If you find any bug, please refer to the bug page to see how to submit a bug report.

New features:

• Added --enable-debug (for ./configure) to allow enabling/disabling asserts,debug functions, ...
• Changed "Previewing:" into "[playing]" when printing stream info
• Added support for --max-duration (useful with --entirely)
  • audiopreview --entirely --max-duration=60 --file=playlist.txt #(with playlist.txt containing, for example, internet radio streams)

Fixes:

• Now prints stream info depending on terminal column size to avoid line-wrap
• Fix characters that are not cleared when reprinting stream info
• autogen.sh: Reverted changes to previous one
• Now stores and updates terminal column-size (in ap_config) with signal SIGWINCH.
• Better printing of current stream info (use "\r").
• Fixed non-void return with void function in stream_get_elapsed_time.

Download.

This version introduces some more fixes and a few new features. It is stable enough for personal uses and would probably be suitable for production uses.

If you find any bug, please refer to the bug page to see how to submit a bug report.

New features:

• Added some keyboard shortcuts:
  • N: to play the next stream.
  • Spacebar: to pause/resume playing.
  • Q: to quit.
• Better duration checks and better keeping track of current stream.
• Added support for simple playlists (new-line separated list of files):
  • audiopreview --file files-to-preview.txt
    
  • or even: audiopreview --entirely --shuffle --file <(find ~/Music/ -name ’*.mp3’)

Fixes:

• Fixed Segmentation faults with very very long args
• Fixed a few memory leaks that were left over.
• Fixed warnings are now sent to STDERR instead of STDOUT.
• Fixed possible race condition.
• Fixed a minor packaging related issue about potfiles.in.

Features from previous versions:

• Preview hundreds of media files without any freeze/lag:
  • audiopreview *.*
• You can set the playing duration:
  • audiopreview --duration 65 yourfile.ogg anotherfile.mp3
• Change the position from where to start playin (see the man page in tarball):
  • audiopreview --position 1 somefiles.* # to preview a few seconds 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 --entirely file.ogg
  • audiopreview -e http://radio:port/
• --volume option, to change the initial output volume.
  • audiopreview --volume 85 *.mp3
• --shuffle option to shuffle the playlist before playing 1st stream.
  • audiopreview --shuffle *.*
  • audiopreview -S -e *.* (to play all your files entirely!)

Download.

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.

This version might still contain a few bugs but it is safely useable.

Features:

• 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 -d -1 file.ogg
  • audiopreview -d -1 http://radio:port/

Download.