SLART: SvOlli's Little Audio Related Thingies

This page is intended to grow as the project grows.

About:

"SvOlli's Little Audio Related Thingies", or "SLART" for short, is a collection of tools I hacked together myself for myself. These tools, once complete, will cover every aspect of handling audio files I came up with.

These tools are

Some of these programs are rather useless if they are not used together with at least one of the others.

Download:

• source: slart-0.7.3-457.tar.bz2 (Size: 193675; Date: 2009-04-20, 17:12 CEST)
  Note: if you download the sourcecode to build it for a distribution, please send me an email to svolli@(this.domain), so I can add a link on this page.
• Package build on Debian Lenny 5.0 i386 (rpm done with alien):
  slart_0.7.3-457_i386.deb (Size: 1197860; Date: 2009-04-20, 17:12 CEST)
  slart-0.7.3-457.i386.rpm (Size: 1205643; Date: 2009-04-20, 17:14 CEST)
• Package build on Debian Lenny 5.0 amd64 (rpm done with alien):
  slart_0.7.3-457_amd64.deb (Size: 1248016; Date: 2009-04-20, 17:13 CEST)
  slart-0.7.3-457.x86_64.rpm (Size: 1253161; Date: 2009-04-20, 17:14 CEST)
• A package build for Asus/Xandros Linux for Eee PCs is available at my EeePC page.
• A package (not build by) me for openSUSE is available at packman.links2linux.de.
• Funkytown for Windows with Qt linked in statically (built on NT 4.0):
  Funkytown-0.7.3-457-win32.zip (Size: 2299853; Date: 2009-04-20, 17:48 CEST) (zipped executeable, no installer needed)
  MySpace downloading is broken, see news posts.
• Funkytown for MacOS X with Qt linked in statically (built on 10.4/Intel):
  Funkytown-0.7.3-457-macx.zip (Size: 4071447; Date: 2009-04-20, 17:40 CEST) (zipped .app-Folder)
  MySpace downloading is broken, see news posts.

News:

2009-07-01

I did some further analysis on MySpace. To me it looks like they're tunneling RTMPE though HTTP. I've got no intensions in investigating this topic any further, since I've downloaded only two or three mp3s per month from MySpace. If anyone presents me with a working solution to this problem, I'm more than willing to integrate it, but my priorities are not gettings Funkytown working with MySpace again.
Sorry.

2009-06-28

MySpace have changed access to mp3s, so Funkytown does not work with MySpace anymore. The access to the mp3s have been changed from http to rtmp. The solution to this problem would be including rtmpdump, but that has been banned by legal threats of Adobe. (German Link, Original Document from Adobe.)

2009-06-27

The git repository was moved. It is now available at
git://svolli.org/SLART.git
or
http://git.svolli.org/SLART.git
for the internet access impaired.
The old one has been provided with a redirector, so it should continue to work.

2009-04-20

Released Version 0.7.3.
This release has the main focus is on Funkytown:

• The whole parsing engine has been rewritten from scratch.
• Will now download mp3s displayed in current MySpace player.
• Standalone downloads for Windows and MacOS X.

Also some minor improvements made it into Partyman:

• F-keys now change tabs.
• Updated documentation.

And some build-scripts have been reworked.

2009-03-31

The 32 bit version of DerMixD bundled with SLART is broken. A new version will be released because of that very soon. In the meantime you can use these replacement DerMixDs.

2009-03-28

Released Version 0.7.2.
Features and bugfixes for Partyman include:

• Mouse wheel can be used for fast forward/rewind.
• Kiosk mode.
• Umlauts in parameters were broken.
• Some small enhencements.
• Fixes for bugs that occur only on very rare occasions.

Added rpm archives converted with alien.

2009-01-24

Released Version 0.7.1.
Release cycles will now include also minor improvments and bugfixes, not only the big steps. Features and bugfixes include:

• Tray icon can now be clicked on for pause and double clicked for next track.
• The warning "Object::connect: No such signal MainWidget::requestChangeTitle(QIcon,QString)" has been fixed.
• A lockup when dermixd reported an error during decoding has been fixed.
• Changed slider behavior: if the slider bar, but not the slider has been clicked on, the slider jumps to that position.

2009-01-09

Released Version 0.7.

2009-01-08

Owning an Eee PC? Precompiled SLART is availablex here.

2009-01-05

Code in git repository has gone from 0.7α to 0.7β. Everyone who can build SLART from source is invited for a test drive. Expect the 0.7 release in the course of this month.

2008-08-04

Hacking still continues, the next version will feature using an sqlite database for much faster startup time (1 to 3 seconds with ~20000 tracks instead of ~30 seconds), a setup wizard and much more. Stay tuned for the next release, or if you want to test the development version, I can provide you with very straight-forward instructions on how to setup an environment for compiling SLART yourself.

2008-05-17

Some more features, some bugs fixed, and now Version 0.6 is ready.

2008-04-06

Screenshots added.

2008-04-05

A beta release of SLART ist now available, expect the release next weekend... if no serious bugs are discovered.

2008-03-16

Although I did some research on the name "SLAT", I didn't know until now, that there is already a tool with that name. So my "SLAT" has been renamed to "SLART".

2008-03-15

Added first version of Creep. Remote control handling is done by using the lirc client library.

2008-02-27

Added first version of Karmadrome, which should now be usable.

2008-02-22

The current development version can be checked out via git.

Screenshots:

Known bugs:

Feature Requests:

Development Version:

git clone git://svolli.org/SLART.git

git clone http://git.svolli.org/SLART.git

apt-get install libvorbis-dev libcdio-paranoia-dev

make

An updated howto is available, please contact me by writing an email to slart at svolli dot dynxs dot de.

Partyman also needs DerMixD for playing anything and mpg123 for playing mp3s. For more Details take a look at the Partyman Website.

This software is free software and distributed under the license terms of the GPL. Enjoy,   SvOlli