Album Player is a simple GTK+ based audio player to play albums that are encoded into a single FLAC file. It is a common way to archive ones CD collection as a single FLAC file and an accompanied cue sheet for each CD. Album Player allows to play back FLAC files with an embedded cue sheet. It uses the cover art, track listing, and cue sheet embedded in the FLAC file. Just choose an album from your CD archive and listen to the music; as a matter of fact, the playback of consecutive tracks of a CD works gaplessly. The embedded track listing can be used to jump between tracks. The embedded album art is displayed. Album Player offers a Canteen Mode, suggesting four random albums to the user. A script to embed cover artwork and cue sheets (as created by CD ripper programs) is included.
On Linux, rip your CD using abcde -1 -M -o flac.
You obtain an album.flac and an album.cue
file. Just scan or download the album cover art and save it as
album.jpeg and execute ap_flac_embed album.flac
album.cue album.jpeg and metaflac
--import-cuesheet=album.cue. The resulting
album.flac file is ready for your CD archive and can
nicely be played back using Album Player.
To trigger canteen mode, open a .m3u playlist file
using Album Player. Canteen Mode lets you choose from the albums
listed in that file. Pressing the "canteen mode" button takes you
to the last-visited canteen.
Album Player is available as source code. It is available in NetBSD thanks to Matthias Drochner.
© 2010 René van Bevern. Last modified 2010-07-29.