Mesk – audio player

Mesk is an open source audio player.

It sports a Gtk+ graphical user interface.

The software has similarities with the Windows freeware audio player called Foobar 2000, known for its highly modular design.

Features include:

• Supports MP3 and Ogg Vorbis audio files.
• CD audio support with album information fetched from FreeDB.
• HTTP support, including basic authentication.
• Supported playlist formats: XSPF (spiff) (the default), M3U, PLS.
• Support for multiple playlists with the ability to cut/copy/paste between them.
• Queue individual tracks or reordered with drag-and-drop.
• Add files directly from other applications.
• Search playlists.
• Playlist modes shuffle and repeat.
• Playlists can be set read-only.
• Playlist state is automatically saved.
• Playlists can be exported to any of the supported formats.
• System tray icon with menu support.
• The application and UI can be controlled remotely from the command line or other applications using the per-session DBus interface.
• Album cover art and song information for the currently playing track is displayed.
• The user interface supports both normal and compact mode.
• Plugin support:
  • Audioscrobbler plugin – share music preferences with Last.fm, the popular Web 2.0 service.
  • gajimstatus plugin changes the XMPP status in Gajim.
  • albumart plugin will download missing album covers from Amazon.com.

Website: Website down
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Developer: Travis Shirk
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

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