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Purpose: Musicale means "a private performance" which is appropriate for a software that enables a person to build and play playlists of any size and length. It supports any format that has a command line player and lets songs of different formats to be mixed in the same playlist file.
Features: Musicale features a simple command line interface with built-in playlist builder and editor. It, by default, runs silently to be non-intrusive while the user works. It includes an optional Interactive mode which allows navigation of the playlist realtime. The Default MIDI player is Playmidi written by Nathan Laredo <laredo@gnu.org>, and the Default MP3 player is Splay by Wu-jae Jung <jwj95@nownuri.net>. If you do not want to use the defaults or want to configure them, then see /etc/musicale.conf for details to adjust Musicale.
Install: To install musicale on your system, decompress the archive (into a directory such as /usr/local, and 'cd' to it, then run './install.sh' in the musicale directory.
Usage: musicale [options] playlistfile

For further information, type 'musicale -h' at the command line.

        The Built-in Playlist Editor (option '-el') allows for the adding of
        single files, entire directories, and also removing all from the 
        playlist, or single entries.  There is also a cleanup feature to remove
        "dead" files from the playlist.  A file converter is also included to
        work with the <0.9.5 playlist format.  The editor also fully supports
        the readline file completion.

Interactive: The interactive mode allows to navigate through the playlist realtime. Pressing 'n' goes to the next song. The 'b' command plays the song before the one currently playing. Remember [Ctrl] \ since by pressing that, you can return to the non-interactive mode. However, it restarts the current song.

~/.musicale:

        This hidden user file contains the users default playlist directory.
        It can be easily changed since the format is a simple path.

                /home/user/playlists

        In this example, the default location for playlists for user is in his
        home directory under the playlists directory.

File Format:

        The file format is a simple file listing in the following format which
        is compatible to the m3u lists and xmms playlists:

                /file/name
        
                Where /file/name in the path to the item

        Example:
                /root/midi/good/some.mid
                /root/midi/secret/neat.mid

Contact: Feel free to send suggestions, comments, bug reports, fixes, etc to the e-mail address below.

Robert Wagner
<thiefius@users.sourceforge.net>