Cynthiune is a versatile music player able to play a lot of different audio formats.
Cynthiune was initially written by Wolfgang Sourdeau. The initial homepage is gone. He we happy
He was with the proposal to give Cynthiune a new home on GAP.
Features:
- MP3 support (via libid3tag and libmad)
- Ogg support (via libvorbis and libogg)
- Musepack support (via libmpcdec)
- wav, au and many other uncompressed file formats (via libaudiofile)
- flac support (via libflac)
- wma and asf support (via libaudiofile)
- taglib support (required for mp3 and musepack, via libtaglib)
- esound output support (via libesd)
- arts output support (via aRts)
- OSS output support (via libossaudio)
- OpenBSD sndio output support (via libsndio)
- Windows port
- Macintosh port
Prerequisites:
- depending on the audio file types you want to play, you need the external libraries installed (and devel packages where necessary)
- depending on the type of output you want to use, you need the external libraries installed (and devel packages where necessary)
Feature wishlist:
- fix the deactivated libmusicbrainz (uses old API in the code)
- replace the wma and asf support via libaudiofile to use ffmpeg
News
Version 1.0.0:
- This is the first GAP release of Cynthiune. Notably changes:
- many build impprovements
- New OpenBSD Sndio audio output backend bundle
- New libao based AO audio output backend bundle
- New Linux ALSA audio output backend bundle
- Windows support updated
- Macintosh supported again, (10.3 or later)
- disabled MusicBrainz Support for now
- many other minor bug fixes
Cynthiune 0.9.5 on OpenBSD/i386:
