Development snapshots - download

The snapshots should compile, and might work. They need qt with header files, often called the development package, or qt-devel for short. Note that configure.sh is not the typical gnu auto tools configure script, and it does not (yet) support the --prefix argument. Use install.sh --prefix instead. Or just copy the apollo executable to where you want it.

Help out

If you have problems with it, suggestions for features or any other comments you can use the source forge tools, or send email to the most appropriate of bugs@apolloplayer.org, suggest@apolloplayer.org and support@apolloplayer.org. We have more planned features than time, so code is very welcome.

New Features since 1.2

• Play First: Midclick on the the songs you want to hear and they will be played in that order. Especially useful at parties when people request songs.
• Continue Here: After the current song, or all the PlayFirst songs, continue playing from this song in the playlist.
• xmms remote control protocol: you can use any program that can control xmms to control apollo, such as xmmsctrl, xmms-shell,  xmms-kde, etc.
• id3: read id3 version 1 and 2 tags, as supported by id3lib was used for some time, but is effectively not maintained at the momenet, and had bugs which required using the cvs version
• loop: playlist
• simple random mode: chooses a song at random, doesn't remember which ones have been played.
• search playlist for songs: Ctrl+F.
• key bindings: a basic config screen for some key bindings.
• playlist generation: generate playlists for each artist, and put them in the playlist browser
• KDE system tray menu
  
• recent files list
• apollo-client: basically xmmsctrl, with commands to load files.

25 May 2002

apollo-2002-05-25.tar.gz

Use libid3tag from libmad instead of id3lib. It is included in the tar ball, but needs to be built seperately before building apollo:

$ cd libid3tag
$ ./configure
    

Similarly apollo-client needs to be build:

$ cd apollo-client
$ make
    

20 May 2002

apollo-2002-05-20.tar.gz

apollo-client: a modified xmmsctrl. A seperate program used to control apollo (or xmms), for example: apollo-client next, apollo-client stop, apollo-client shuffle, apollo-client add *.mp3, apollo-client add-to-playlist-and-playfirst foo. With the `launch' command apollo-client will spawn apollo if it isn't running already. For use with the window manager, file manager, shell, etc.

a recent files menu

improved playlist search

01 Apr 2002

apollo-2002-04-01.tar.gz

An apollo menu in the Kde system tray.

Loop 1 mode: repeat one track endlessly.

Bugfixes in playlist generation, reGroup and playlist browser.

20 Mar 2002

apollo-2002-03-20.tar.gz

Some bug fixes and polish. xmms compatible song name format in playlist, for example %p %a %2n %t to show artist, album, song number (from original cd) and song name. A seperate format for songs from multi artist cds.

Calculation of mp3 song length copied from mp3info by Cedrik Tefft, read along with the id3-info.

Amos is implementing a system tray menu for the KDE panel (kicker).

20 Feb 2002

apollo-2002-02-20.tar.gz

UI gliches fixed. This appears to be the 2.0 release, pending Marius/Amos actually making the file release (and not finding more bugs in the meantime :)).

10 Feb 2002

apollo-2002-02-10.tar.gz

Some bug/consistency fixes. 2.0 release candidate.

5 Feb 2002

apollo-2002-02-05.tar.gz

Some small fixes since last snapshot. Needs testing. Well, needs using. Not compiled on FreeBSD: on a first glance the FreeBSD ports seems to place QTINC and QTLIB under different directories, so our $QTDIR needs breaking up. Not much work - feel free :)

19 Dec 2001

apollo-src-2.0alpha1-1.tar.gz

To try: ./configure.sh and make

cd /tmp                                                         &&
mkdir apollo                                                    &&
cd apollo                                                       &&
wget http://www.apolloplayer.org/alpha/apollo-2002-02-20.tar.gz &&
tar zxfv apollo-2002-02-20.tar.gz                               &&
cd apollo-2.0alpha1-1                                           &&
./configure.sh                                                  &&
make                                                            &&
./apollo