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Adam Luter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> described the package as follows: License: gpl Other License: Package: Ruffle - Ruby-base Music Shuffle Player System name: ruffle Type: non-GNU Description: http://c3.ath.cx/~gryn/ruffle/ruffle-0.4.0.tar.bz2 Ruffle is a Ruby/Ncurses based music player. It is fully functional and learns the user's preferences for good and bad songs automatically (determined by skip/not-skip for each song play). However Ruffle is released dead (as far as the only developer [me], is concerned), because on my small 400mhz Celeron it is too much of a CPU and memory hog. Also the Ruby language does not have real threads so it is easy for Ruffle to skip even though it is "multi-threaded". Ruffle is replaced by nplayer a C-based version. Ruffle does contain a nice windowing engine and good example code for people looking to try this sort of project on their own. Other Software Required: Ruffle requires Ruby. Also for mp3 playback a command-line tool that can output to stdout (mpg321 works). And for ogg playback a command-line tool that can output to stdout (oggdec works). Trivial to add other format support. Additionally several free Ruby extensions (such as the Joystick and Ncurses extensions) are also required but are included in the tarball. (Since the extensions are often hosted on Japanese websites that are hard to read unless you can read Japanese). Other Comments: I plan on releasing nplayer now too. Nplayer has all the functionality that ruffle has but much smaller footprint. Also it has a niffty text-based spectrum analyser. Nplayer will (hopefully soon) also allow you to tweak the playlist, instead of just being on automatic pilot all the time. _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Savannah-hackers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers
