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musixbox

The MusiXBox project is my attempt to create an easy-to-use yet powerful music player. It consists of a library, musixbox, capable of playing music in a variety of input formats and output providers and several frontends: musixplay which is just a command line player, musixbox which is a minimal SDL client and musixcurses which is a ncurses-based client. The currently supported input providers are:

• AdLib (using adplug)
• Amiga Modules (using mikmod)
• Commodore 64 SID files (using libsidplay2)
• FLAC (using libFLAC++)
• MIDI (using SDL_mixer)
• MP3 (using libmad or libmpg123)
• Ogg Vorbis (using libogg, libvorbis and libvorbisfile)

Information on an input file (i.e. title, artist and album) can be obtained as well. Output can be handled provided using:

• ALSA
• libao
• OSS

Software volume control can be used if desired.

Screenshots

musixbox, minimalistic UI designed for small touchscreens:

musixcurses, ncurses-based general UI:

musixplay, command-line player:

Hardware frontend support

Originally, the <i>musixbox</i> player frontend was intended to handle interactions using a touchscreen 320x160 LCD display connected using an AVR as a serial port. The schematics and code are available at GitHub. Note that a SDL input provider is available which mimics the hardware.

The hardware looks like this (I didn't design the enclosure, it was made by a neighbour at the time):