Re: [LAU] Klactoveedsedstene - a new MPlayer Frontend

On Wednesday 06 January 2010 18:00:54 Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> Excerpts from Viggo Simonsen's message of Wed Jan 06 16:40:54 +0100 2010:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am happy to announce that a new Mplayer frontend (for Linux) has been
> > launched.
> >
> > Klactoveedsedstene is an Audio Player frontend to the popular Mplayer
> > engine, written in Java.
> > It has an advanced support for Album Art. It recognizes embedded Album
> > Art, and is also mostly able to find the correct Album Art from the
> > Internet, based on the "Artist" and "Album" ID3-tags
> >
> > Features:
> > Fast and compact
> > Advanced Album Art support with almost 100% 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
> >
> > Have a look, and a try at
> > http://www.klactoveedsedstene.com
> >
> >
> >
> > Best regards
> > Viggo Simonsen
>
> No Free Software License, no sourcecode.. I would have liked to have a
> look at the code since I have to dabble in java anyway, and I might have
> learned a thing or two or maybe even contributed, but I guess I'll have
> to stick with smplayer.
>
Use of creative commons is weird since this touches performance rights with
options like: Give credit to author when performing, parody without prior
permission, etc.

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There are non-opensource java licensing options such as (previously) used by
Sun.

For those who have no respect for the law or other's intellectual property,
.jar files can be un-jarred and there are utilities around to generate
readable java-source from contents. I only used this when I accidentally lost
my sources for a project of mine.
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