Surely, many people remember the old Mielof (which, by the way, can still be found on the net ). Unfortunately, he was pressed by the Russian representatives of the copywriters. The colleague with whom I wrote him was slain (children-wife-court-lawyers-kuchadedeneg, you can understand) and closed everything. But I did not give up, I threw out almost all the old code and wrote Mielofon again. This time trying to make it a real open source project. Description of the functional, appearance, requirements, as well as video with a screencast inside.
What's inside?
Like the previous version, the new Mielofon is written in actionscript 3 using Adobe Flex and AIR. From this we can draw two conclusions: 1. it will work on all operating systems (win, mac os, linux, and in the future on mobile devices) 2. you will need Adobe AIR (but you can without it, more on that below) The second paragraph with the release of AIR 3.0 becomes not so categorical. AIR will be required only for users of Linux systems. For Win and Mac, it is planned to make bundles that will not require a separate installation of AIR or the presence of administrative privileges. Built-in auto-update, of course, is attached.
The main feature of the new Mielofon is the plugin system. They are the ones who search for threads and mp3. Anyone can write your own plugin. In the near future, it is planned to launch Plugin Market, a single directory of all plug-ins with a 1-click installation. Such a system also allows you to easily and easily expand the sources of streams and mp3 almost imperceptible to the user. ')
And now let's move on to the delicious - what exactly is waiting for us inside? This is the first release after a long time and at the moment he does not know how much, but of course there are already basic things. So you can: 1. Search by artists, albums, songs 2. Watch tops for this whole thing. 3. Of course, listen separately songs or entire albums. That's all for now. Possibilities to download, compile playlists yet. They will be in the next versions (more details about the next release will be discussed later in the application blog). Of course, I will be happy to hear from you about any bugs, glitches, brakes, or your cool ideas.
What does this look like?
Let us turn to appearance. I tried to make it as minimal as possible and simpler. It turned out, you decide. The main application window was at the beginning of the article. The artist page looks like this:
Album tracklist:
Player in mini version:
How does it work?
If you are too lazy to download and put a bunch of things (or you want to wait for bundles), the work of the new Myelophone is shown in the screencast below: