# mp3blaster/cfg - "Build" settings for package

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[technotes]

# 1. Presently, the version of "mp3blaster" built by this package sup-
# ports the following input-file formats: mp3 ogg sid wav

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[buildtimes]

00.01 hours (or 000.35 minutes) - ThinkPad E540 i7 4x2 16GB RAM
00.01 hours (or 000.50 minutes) - Dell Inspiron 6400 2.0 GHz Intel Duo
                                  7200 2GB RAM
00.07 hours (or 004.07 minutes) - Compaq 1.7 GHz Intel Pentium 4 512MB
                                  RAM

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[settings]
build   = default
cppstd  = gnu++98
exepack = yes
license = See "license*.txt" in installed tree
licfile = COPYING
tmpsize = 4M

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[depends]
actools
alsa
esound
gawk
grep
libvorbis
ncurses
pth
sdl

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[configure]
MANBASE=$PKGDIR_PROD/man
mkdir -p $MANBASE

bash ./configure \
    --prefix=$PKGDIR_PROD          \
    --disable-dependency-tracking  \
    --mandir=$MANBASE

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# Original URLs. These URLs were valid at one point, but may have died
# since then. If you download newer versions of tarballs [etc.], don't
# delete  the  original versions,  as you may not  be able  to replace
# them.

[urls]
url_debian  = http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/\
mp3blaster

url_home    = http://mp3blaster.sourceforge.net/
url_lfs     = n/a

url_tarball = http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mp3blaster/\
mp3blaster-3.2.5.tar.gz

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[about]
"mp3blaster" is a  venerable  text-mode  MP3 player that dates back to
1997.

Remarks by the original author:

[The program's] interface is entirely text based,  thereby eliminating
the need  for  a  graphical environment like X-Windows.  This does not
limit  the  way you can control the player whilst playing though; just
like any  graphical mp3 player,  there are cd-style buttons like play,
stop, pause, next track, etc.

History: While hardly anyone had ever heard of mp3 back in early 1997,
I began  to build up my own mp3 collection.  As a Linux (text console)
adept,  I  was  heavily frustrated by the lack of a decent mp3 player.
There  was  a (at the time) very popular command-line based mp3 player
though,  called  'splay'. I figured I could use its mpeg decoding lib-
rary and write my own interface in ncurses to control it. The plan was
there!

Thinking about  how  to implement this interface,  I also wondered why
all  mp3players  had  such  plain  playlist  functionality! I like the
ability to  chuck  a  bunch of CD's in a multi-CD cd player,  and then
play the  CD's  in random order.  In such a way that the cd player se-
lects one of the five CD's at random,  and then plays the entire disc.
This continues  until all discs have been played.  No mp3 player could
do this, so I decided to add it to mine.

The first  usable  version (0.9.0) (named 'mp3player',  how's that for
originality?) reared its ugly head in august 1997. Since then, lots of
things  have  changed...  You can read the ChangeLog supplied with the
source if you are [interested].