The MusiXBox project is my attempt to create an easy-to-use yet powerful music player. It consists of a library, musixbox, capable of playing music in a variety of input formats and output providers and several frontends: musixplay which is just a command line player, musixbox which is a minimal SDL client and musixcurses which is a ncurses-based client. The currently supported input providers are:
- AdLib (using adplug)
- Amiga Modules (using mikmod)
- Commodore 64 SID files (using libsidplay2)
- FLAC (using libFLAC++)
- MIDI (using SDL_mixer)
- MP3 (using libmad or libmpg123)
- Ogg Vorbis (using libogg, libvorbis and libvorbisfile)
Information on an input file (i.e. title, artist and album) can be obtained as well. Output can be handled provided using:
- ALSA
- libao
- OSS
Software volume control can be used if desired.
musixbox, minimalistic UI designed for small touchscreens:
musixcurses, ncurses-based general UI:
musixplay, command-line player:
Originally, the musixbox player frontend was intended to handle interactions using a touchscreen 320x160 LCD display connected using an AVR as a serial port. The schematics and code are available at GitHub. Note that a SDL input provider is available which mimics the hardware.
The hardware looks like this (I didn't design the enclosure, it was made by a neighbour at the time):
