mixplayd 0.60

mixplayd is a daemon that can be told to play mp3 (and now also ogg) files from the local file system. It cannot be controlled directly but with telnet. It has a built-in multi-channel mixer, so you can play several files on different channels with different volumes simultanously.
This is very useful for crossfading between songs. Another very useful feature is the change of the number of channels and even the number of soundcards and named pipes at run time! Yes, it also supports unix named pipes, so you can run it even without a soundcard!
The main purpose of mixplayd is to use it with special clients (= frontends) which can be found here (when theyre developed). A sample perl-client is included with the package.
mixplayd doesnt come with its own decoder, instead it needs a preinstalled working decoder. I strongly recommend madplay from underbit Technologies which can be obtained for free from http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/.
For OggVorbis listen support you will need an external decoder like ogg123 of the vorbis-tools.
Enhancements:
- version jump because of a lot of changes
- now recommended encoder is madplay because it better deals with corrupted files
- added second decoder definition for decoding ogg files
- automatic file type detection to choose the right decoder by looking at the file ending
- new function to skip silence at the beginning of a file: autocue
- fixed some bugs with process management (no more zombies)
- removed the whole mp3info subtree and left just the few files needed
- added ogginfo to get time information from ogg files (libvorbis needed!)
- now a check if the defined encoders can be found is done at start
- applied patch from Thomas Orgis to add the display of the status "stopped-pause" when a channel is paused
- code is more "purified" (great thanks to Andreas Hauser!)