New Project, a simple music player. And now a video player!!

swanson · 2025-08-07 07:00:18

It reminds me of a bass player I used to play with. I suggested that we could compose our own tunes. He said: "All the songs are already composed". The end.

stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn · 2025-08-07 07:50:04

^^^@swanson & all

re: "all the songs are already composed"

reminded of Barry Manilow's version of "i write the songs"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Write_the_Songs

and now it's an earworm...argh

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-you-cant-get-a-song-out-of-your-head-and-what-to-do-about-it-2017100412490

greenjeans · 2025-08-07 14:22:32

Lol, if you take a look at my last screenshot and the songs in the playlist I was making, you'll learn a bit more about me.

Got to move some code around today, been letting it marinate for a few days just enjoying listening, there's a blues station out of Athens, Greece that is just amazing. I picked up some material I needed yesterday to fix one of my drumstands, so I may even make a little music myself today.

greenjeans · 2025-08-07 15:42:43

I don't mean to toot my horn here (pardon the pun), but I must say this app is amazing when it comes to brevity of code.

1. The gui itself, the playlist script, the recorder script, the local and radio DB scripts, altogether add up to 98.7kb. If you want AlsaTune that's another 39 kb.

2. All the dependencies already come standard in Vuu-do anyway, and also in Devuan and others.

Today i'm also adding a special DB text file for radio stations for the folks in my town, all the local broadcast stations have an internet stream, plus I can of course get stations from however far away that they might like but their radios won't receive.

EDIT: Today's work, moving a tab, moving some buttons etc. cleanup. Tomorrow have to make some error-handling stuff in the radio section more robust.

EDIT-2: TV sucked so I just came back and fixed that error-handling stuff already, lol. This thing is almost done.

EDIT-3: And I set the playlist creator window to always be on top when it's running, that way you can have your file manager maximized if you want while dragging-n-dropping files into the creator window.

Last edited by greenjeans (2025-08-08 21:44:14)

greenjeans · 2025-08-22 00:01:44

Another mountain of work the last two days, squashing bugs, then squashing the bugs and regressions from the previous bug-fix etc etc. It's like Murphy's Law, you squash 3 bugs and 2 new ones appear. Converted all the pathways in the scripts for a standard install, the re-scan for new playlists button went bye-bye as it will now auto-update on any new playlists. I used that button for a new function to add radio stations, simple gui dialog with a sanity check to probe the stream inputted to see if it's valid before saving it to the radio DB

It's fairly easy to make something that does a basic job of doing what you want, MUCH harder to make it behave properly. Helluva ride this project has been for me.

greenjeans · 2025-08-23 01:41:40

Working on a dedicated EQ plug-in for the player, for systems that aren't alsa-pure and can't use AlsaTune, it's just specific to the app and uses ffmpeg instead of lbasound2-plugin-equal to provide the EQ function, so it's not system-wide like regular AlsaTune is.

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