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