Ann: Cynthiune 0.9.3a

[Wolfgang Sourdeau]

Hi all,


This is to let you know that Cynthiune 0.9.3a was just released.
This is a minor release mainly targetting MacOS X users.

What is Cynthiune?
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Cynthiune is a free software and romantic music player for GNUstep and
MacOSX. I wrote it originally as a christmas gift to a girl that I liked
because she could not listen to the music on her Mac with a free program.

It is very similar in use to XMMS and Winamp, although it is currrently
less complete. A plugin architecture is being designed.
For the moment, input and output bundles can easily be written and
Cynthiune is already quite usable for playing Ogg's, MP3's, Mod's an
plenty of other formats to an OSS device or an Esound socket.

Changes
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This release is a minor update:
- this version now builds and runs on MacOS X again;

Downloads
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The current version (0.9.3a) can be downloaded from
http://organact.mine.nu/~wolfgang/cynthiune/Cynthiune-0.9.3a.tar.gz

MacOS X binary:
http://organact.mine.nu/~wolfgang/cynthiune/Cynthiune%200.9.3a.dmg

Screenshot:
http://organact.mine.nu/~wolfgang/cynthiune/screenshots/cynthiune-macosx-0.9.3a.jpg

Requirements
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The extra libraries needed for Cynthiune are:

mp3 support:
- libid3tag and libmad 0.15.0b
  (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12349)
ogg support:
- libvorbis 1.0.1 and libogg 1.1.0
  (http://www.vorbis.com/download_unix_1.0.1.psp)
mod, xm and all the possible tracker formats out there:
- libmodplug 2.04 (http://modplug-xmms.sourceforge.net)
wav, au and many uncompressed sound formats:
- libaudiofile (http://www.68k.org/~michael/audiofile/)
flac support:
- libflac (http://flac.sourceforge.net/)
esound output support:
- libesd (http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/download.html)

Cynthiune is my first GNUstep project and my coding style has changed
over the year during which I wrote it. Therefore, if you have any code,
ideas, translations, comments or useful criticism, feel at ease to submit
them to me!

Cynthiune has matured a lot in the recent months. A couple of features
are incomplete but since the changes to come are complex and important,
I thought a preliminary release would still be nice to have. Consider
this software beta.

Happy thiuning!


Wolfgang
-- 
"An eye for an eye only makes the world blind." (Ghandi)

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