This is epris, your small audio player!

Unlike xmms2 or mpd, it uses GStreamer and DBus. It is written in Vala.

Like screenshots?

  ~/$ epr clear
  ~/$ epr add ~/Desktop/*.ogg
  ~/$ epr list
 .. list your ~/Desktop/*.ogg
  ~/$ epr play
  ~/$ epr show
 artist:         "foobar"
 uri:            "http:///..."
 other-tag:      info
 state:          Playing
 position:       0:00:09.793391000 / 0:02:10.833062500
  ~/$ epr seek 45%
  ~/$ epr skip
 .. go to next track
  ~/$ epr stop
 

epr is the command line client.

epris is the D-Bus service, you don't have to run it manually, it will start and shutdown automatically.

It is based on excellent GStreamer playbin2. And it supports gap-less playback! (or almost)

Build dependency

• GStreamer > 0.10

• dbus-glib-1 > 0.70

If you want to build the from the vala (not from a distribution tarball):

• Vala > 0.7.4 + patch (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584306 and http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584305 at least)

The code is hosted on Gitorious:

git clone git://gitorious.org/epris/mainline.git

Why?

Epris name come from MPRIS, the Media Player Remote Interface Specification. Unfortunately, I didn't like it so much, and I started to have disdain for it ("avoir du mepris" in french).

However, writing Epris could help me to help improve future versions of MPRIS.

Being not satisfied by the monolithic, itune-like, player, or any of the xmms2 or mpd player, I couldn't resist to do my own small service.

"Epris", because all you need is love...

Discussion list

Feel free to join the silent noise of http://groups.google.com/group/epris

(author mail is marcandre.lureau@gmail.com)