Calliope Music Player

Calliope is an attempt to break free from imitating iTunes or Winamp. It has been a work in progress for about two years but I guess it's pretty close to a rough first release now. Code is in Bazaar, but no promises on the state of it until the project is a bit more mature.

It was started on GNOME but now runs on Windows as well using the same libraries. Decoding library is GStreamer and database library is SQLite.

New: jhbuild and msys+mingw, in which I discuss a torturous but successful week.

Key features of Calliope (some of which are entirely fantasy at this point):

• Music libraries are relational databases, in contrast to the rather pointless approach taken in most other players of storing exactly what the file's tags store. Calliope understands several recordings being of the same composition, the same recording being on multiple albums, etc.
• Fully-customisable flat or tree views onto your music collection, sorted by any number of properties.
• Volume normalisation (replay gain) for individual tracks.
• Best-guess metadata from filename, tags, musicBrainz etc.
• Close integration with last.fm and musicBrainz.
• Tagging (in the web 2.0 sense)
• Actually that's pretty much it so far.

Some useful links in the mean time:

• Sourceforge project page
• Forum
• Source code
• A calliope

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