I should have mentioned from the get-go that this is built on daedalus libraries and probably won't work on excalibur. arrrgh.

Packaged it up finally and ready for testing if anyone has a little time to do so!
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … apps/VSMP/

Vuu-do Simple Music Player, no frills, no features, plain interface. Just music.

  * Builds a local music database from ~/Music and a radio database automatically
    on first run.
  * Re-scan function for adding new local music.
  * Simple dialog to add new radio stations to the database.
  * Supports mp3, ogg, and flac for local playback.
  * Supports mp3 and aac radio streams.
  * Create and save playlists with a drag-and-drop interface.
  * Record internet radio streams, with options to split and name tracks or
    save as a single file.
  * Integrates with AlsaTune for real-time audio tweaks (if installed).

VSMP is made to be brute simple, there is no replay-gain or re-sampling done by
the player, just pure unfiltered music. Controls are easy, this is a set-and-forget
type of app for those who just want to start the music, minimize the player and get
on with other tasks. There is no provision to right-click a music file in your file
manager and open it in this app, playing a single song is already an option in the
context menu in Vuu-do so no need. It also currently does not support playing music
directly from a CD in your optical drive, that would be less-simple, but may be a
future option, for now I recommend Asunder for ripping CD's to your HD/SSD and
adding to your collection.

To play music, first select station/album/playlist in the treeview, then select
the track to start with in the main pane and then hit "play". The "Pause" button
toggles pause on/off.

To add a new playlist just click that button and a drag-n-drop window opens on top
of other windows, so you can add songs from your file-manager or from the main pane
of the player itself, note that when adding from the player's main pane you can only
grab one song at a time, but in your file manager you can select multiple songs and
drag them all at once. Note that you can't grab a whole folder and drag/drop it,
only songs at this time. To delete playlists no longer wanted, open your file-manager
to ~/.local/share/vsmp/playlists and delete the ones you don't want.

Adding a radio station is easy, just click that button and fill in the form that pops
up. The first field "Provider" can be anything you choose, and is intended for things
like "SomaFM" and "Radio Paradise" that provide multiple stations, if in doubt just
throw up something like "Internet Radio". The station name is the next field, this also
can be anything you like, the name of the station or a descriptive title like "Blues Radio".

The last field must be precise, the URL of the stream itself. There are various ways
to find this, most stations have online players you can start that open a new window,
and frequently the URL of that window is the stream URL you need.
A nice website that hunts those pesky url's for you: https://streamurl.link/
To delete stations, open ~/.local/share/vsmp/vsmp_radio_db in your text-editor and
delete the ones you don't want. Be careful to maintain the format!

The Record Radio button does just that, you must have a station streaming to activate
this function, once started it forks off as a separate process with it's own window,
recording the station you selected until you tell it to stop. So you can listen to other
music in the player or turn it off entirely and the record function will continue to run.
It uses Streamripper for the backend and will store new tracks in your ~/Music directory.
After recording new tracks, just hit the "Re-scan Collection" button to add them to
the VSMP database.

Currently this is an alpha version, might be quirks, please let me know if you have any
issues!

~greenjeans

OP, what kernel are we talking about?

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I'm aware of that and the other info posted afterward, for brevity's sake I didn't post it all because OP just wanted an answer to his question so I made a quick reply.

I'm really loving this simple app, it has multiple uses depending on how you compile it, I just now thought of using it as a recipe app, gonna compile a new binary and change name and DB folder to have a dedicated recipe version.

Lol, chatting with wife now, and she wants one for knitting/crocheting patterns.

Yeah at least on Daedalus, running it right now, works fine after you do some initial work on settings. Ad-blocking is pretty good.

Main thing I like about it, is that it's not Firefox. Second thing I like about it is that it's not Firefox. No ridiculous scrollbar nonsense, that's another plus.

Not a problem, gnlug is what I use but whatever works best.

Cool, did not know that as I don't use Ventoy, just did some reading of the threads here about issues.

Well i'm your huckleberry for sure when it comes to testing Snapshot, lol. It's no exaggeration for me to say i've used Refracta Snashot around 250-300 times in the last year, both on Daedalus and Excalibur, and never once experienced a failure. I have isos available online now made with it, again with both daedalus and excalibur.

FYI Devuan doesn't work properly with Ventoy, there's some threads about that on here.

Check your other thread OP, this may be related to: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … ug=1123750

It's the same kernel that's giving you problems, just manifests differently maybe.

Can you narrow down when this started with respect to package upgrades (if any)?

If you haven't updated recently and the problems just started out of the blue, then I suspect that's old hardware giving up the ghost slowly.

I have a 2005 lappy, old Athlon chip and 1 gb of ram that i've nursed along for quite a few years, but it started doing something similar and then just got worse until one day it simply would not power up.

Right back atcha friends, thanks for a great year, i'm excited about what comes next in this new year!