Herrie – minimalistic music player

Herrie is a minimalistic music player that uses the command line. It is written to support a variety of operating systems, audio subsystems (including ALSA, Apple’s CoreAudio, Open Sound System, and PulseAudio), as well as different file formats including playlists.

Herrie has a split-screen user interface. At the top of the screen resides a playlist, with a file browser at the bottom half. When tracks are added to the playlist, Herrie automatically consumes them one by one.

It is therefore an application that allows you to batch music for playback.

Features include:

• Two operation modes: Party mode and XMMS mode.
• Supports multiple audio file formats including MP3, FLAC and Ogg Vorbis.
• Send playback statistics to AudioScrobbler, the music technology from Last.fm.
• chroot() itself into a directory (the chroot call does not change the working directory) for untrusted setups.
• Extremely light on resources.
• Internationalization support.

Website: github.com/EdSchouten/herrie
Support: github.com/mawww/herrie
Developer: Ed Schouten
License: Open Source License

Herrie is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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