PyTone

PyTone is a music jukebox written in Python with a curses based GUI. While providing advanced features like crossfading and multiple players, special emphasis is put on ease of use, turning PyTone into an ideal jukebox system for use at parties. Features:concise curses based GUI simple song selection using an arbitrary number of music databases with hierarchical (artist/album/songs, some tags/artist/album/songs) navigation, from list of top and last played songs, from list of most recently added songs, random song list, stored playlists, or alternatively from file system editable playlist: deletion MOVE song up/down delete played songs shuffle repetition automatic addition of random songs, when the playlist is empty save to and load from .m3u file pluggable players, currently internal mp3/Ogg Vorbis player with crossfading and gap killing and/or xmms based external player and/or mpg321 or (the non-free) mpg123 based external player display of information for currently selected song: ID3 tag length, BitRate, sample rate, BPM, ReplayGain information, part of a compilation, podcast times played and skipped last played song rating (1 to 5 stars) plays currently selected song on second player (if your computer has a second sound card or one card with more than one line out) search functionality: quick search by first letter incremental search by regular expression random song selection taking into account song rating and time at which song was last played description of important key bindings in status bar and context sensitive help logging of played songs Execution of arbitrary command when playback of new song starts basic mixer functionality customizable key bindings customizable look English, French, German, Italian and Polish user interface external control, e.g. from the shell plugin system; currently plugins for the Audioscrobbler service and for displaying the title in the terminal