Juice - playlist editor / player frontend

juice filename ...

Juice is a frontend for mpg123 and other players. It provides a nifty dialog-based playlist editor.

It basically allows you to browse through your files in a "Midnight Commander"-like fashion. The MP3's you select is treated as a playlist which can be shuffled, rearranged, saved, etc.

In order to play audio files, two player interfaces is provided. The mpg123-specfic interface uses the remote protocol of mpg123 (This feature was introduced in version 0.59r in order to accommodate generic frontends.) The other player frontend is generic and allows for any player to be used. This is useful if you do not want to limit the functionality of juice to MP3's. Please note that this generic frontend is still in early beta phase and is pretty buggy.

Of course juice comes with all the bells & whistles you'd expect from a quality application and has (among others) full integrated help functionality as well as full dialog based configuration file editor.

From version 0.03b onwards, juice allows you to specify files to be played on the command-line. I don't know if this is a good thing, so I might take this option away at a later stage...

/etc/juice.conf

System-wide configuration file.

/usr/share/juice/help/*.hlp

Help files

/usr/share/juice/saved.jpl

Intersession memory playlist

juice.conf(5), descript.ion(5), mpg123(1)

Written by Abraham vd Merwe <abz@juicy.sourceforge.net>

Andreas Neuhaus <andy@fasta.fh-dortmund.de> for some ideas and code I borrowed from his program IRMP3

Michael Hipp <hippm@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> for writing mpg123 (:

Robert Alto <badcrc@tscnet.com> for the list of genres as found in ID3 tags as well as the format in which ID3 tags can be extracted from MP3's.

J. Kercheval for PD pattern matching routines published in C snippets of 03/95

Open Sound Systems (OSS) for info found on their web page (www.4front-tech.com/pguide/)

Midnight Commander guys for pty opening routines (as found int mc-4.1: subshell.c)