AudioPreview 0.4

It is a small command-line tool that can play previews of:

• Audio Files - mp3, ogg, flac, rm, wma…
• Video Files - avi, mpg, ogg, mkv, …
• Internet Streams - radio stations, video streams and audio streams, …

Major Features:

1. Lightweight
   • Only 66 Kb in size as a binary (or even 22Kb if debug information are stripped)
   • Uses around 8mb in memory size (compared to 53mb for Banshee!)
2. Extensible
   • It is based on Gstreamer framework. Using the Gstreamer plugins you can play almost any formats!
3. Easy to use and fast 
   • Written in C.
   • Using the command-line, you can play a preview very quickly (e.g. audiopreview yourfile.mp3).
   • Starts playing in less than a second, even when asked to play hundreds of files!

Enhancements: May 19th, 2009

• 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.

• GStreamer