User:viggosimonsen

Klactoveedsedstene

Developer(s)	Viggo Simonsen
Initial release	1.0 (2010-01-01)
Written in	Java
Operating system	Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD
Platform	Java
Available in	English
Type	Audio player
License	Creative Commons
Website	www.klactoveedsedstene.com

Klactoveedsedstene Klactoveedsedstene is an Audio Player frontend to the popular Mplayer engine, written in Java. It is not an all-round over-all Media Player, like Mplayer, but only an Audio frontend for WMA and MP3 files. It has a low footprint, as is fast to load and use. It can be launched directly from the Internet, using Java Web Start.

Features

Features:

• Fast and compact
• Advanced Album Art support with over 90% accuracy.
• Select and Play
• All-in-one window
• Drag and Drop music into the library
• Supports MP3 and WMA
• Highly configurable
• Stateful (remembers your window settings)
• All parts of the GUI can be colored
• Album-Artist-Track view
• All track columns sortable and movable
• Minimizable

Media Library

Klactoveedsedstene has no concept of a playlist. It has a Media Library, into which one imports ones music collection. The library is organized in three hierachical panels, Artist, Album, Track, as is common to many Audio Players. In these panels, the user can select any subset of tracks and play them, in effect as a virtual playlist. Audio files can be imported by Drag-and-Dropping them onto the GUI from any graphical File Manager. The Track panel is organized in multiple columns such as title, artist, album and genre which can be sorted and moved.

Supported formats

Klactoveedsedstene can play any Audio formats, supported by Mplayer, however only for MP3 and WMA, are meta-tags and embedded Album Art read. Thus, it is in practice an Audio Player for these two formats, which are by far the two most common. Support for other formats might be part of a future release.

Tagging

Klactoveedsedstene uses the ID3 tags to find pertaining Album Art from the Internet. Only the two tags Artist and Album are used as search criteria. Tags can not be edited in Klactoveedsedstene, but must be done with some other software. A tag editor is planned for a future release.

Album Art Support

The Album Art Support is quite comprehensive. For each album imported to the Media library, Klactoveedsedstene will try to find some associated Album Art. There are three possible sources, searched in the following priority:

• Cached Album Art - Look for Album Art in your local cache, which has been fetched during a previous import
• Embedded Album Art - Sometimes the MP3 or WMA file has Album Art embedded in it, and Klactoveedsedstene will extract it.
• Album Art in directory. If there is exactly one graphic file in the directory of the media file, Klactoveedsedstene will assume that this contains the Album Art. Note that this assumption can be wrong, and so you may end up with a wrong image. But it gives you the possibility to show Album Art by organizing your media files and images accordingly.
• Album Art from the Internet. If no local Album Art is found, Klactoveedsedstene will search the Internet and make qualified decision based on the ID3 tag in the media file. The algorithm is fairly advanced, and depending on the exactness of the Artist and Album Title tag, it can make a correct match for over 90% of the albums. One can configure one or more of the four methods to used.

GUI coloring

Almost all GUI elements can be colored through configuration settings.

Player Controls

The Player is controlled at the bottom of the GUI on a panel that ressembles that a Stereo rack. Track progress is shown as a Progress Bar that overlays the Song information in the same simulated LED panel. One jumps back and forth in the track by clicking on the Progress Bar with the mouse.

External links

• Home Page - klactoveedsedstene.com