knobo / ernestine

Ernestine is a music management application in McClim.

Ernestine

Ernestine is a music management application. see INSTALL file for more explanations.

2 frontends exists :

• a McClim player.
• a web radio in Flash.

McCLim Player

Dependencies

Install theses packages :

$ sudo apt-get install mp3info aumix mplayer

Launch the mcclim frontend

CL-USER> (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :ernestine-gui)
CL-USER> (ernestine-gui:player)

Add you music with the C-i command or Music button. Put in the line the directory which contains you music files. You could use the File Browser (Browse button). Then start the music scanning with the "Search" button.

Available commands from the GUI

C-q : quit ernestine

C-Return : start playing selected song
C-Space : stop playing current song

C-n : next song
C-p : previous song

C-a : add to playlist selected song
C-d : delete selected song from playlist
C-z : shuffle

C-i : import music files

C-s : save current playlist
C-o : open a file selector to search a playlist

Screenshots

• 0.4
• 0.3
• 0.2
• 0.1

Web radio

Launch the web frontend

CL-USER> (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :ernestine-web)

Creates the web radio

You must specify the virtual host, the Ernestine source directory and the port for the web server :

CL-USER> (defparameter *radio*
              (ernestine-web:create-web-radio "my.host.info" 9090
                                              :covers-p t))

If covers-p is t, Ernestine will search covers, download and update database of each album.

Add music

If all your music is store in directory /opt/music/, you could add this directory, and Ernestine will scan recursively all directories to creates the music database :

CL-USER> (ernestine-web:add-music *radio* "/opt/music/" t)

The add-music method take an optional argument : covers-p. If it is t, Ernestine will download covers albums.

Manage the web radio

CL-USER> (ernestine-web:start-radio *radio*)
CL-USER> (ernestine-web:stop-radio *radio*)

Screenshots

• 0.4
• 0.3
• 0.3

Benchs

Benchmarks of the database backend :

CL-USER> (time
           (let ((backend (ernestine-database:get-backend :prevalence "/tmp/")))
             (ernestine-tools:scan-directory backend "/opt/music/")))

Version 0.2

Date ; 2007-08-11
Size : 16G for /opt/music/
Without covers :
Evaluation took:
  314.1 seconds of real time
  12.96081 seconds of user run time
  44.514786 seconds of system run time
  [Run times include 0.564 seconds GC run time.]
  0 calls to %EVAL
  0 page faults and
  230,012,408 bytes consed.

With covers :
Evaluation took:
  1211.078 seconds of real time
  370.02313 seconds of user run time
  147.08118 seconds of system run time
  [Run times include 188.276 seconds GC run time.]
  32040 calls to %EVAL
  15 page faults and
  93,196,758,304 bytes consed.

Version 0.1

Date : 2007-05-08
Size : 14G for /opt/music
Evaluation took:
  226.969 seconds of real time
  10.200638 seconds of user run time
  41.40659 seconds of system run time
  [Run times include 0.949 seconds GC run time.]
  0 calls to %EVAL
  0 page faults and
  263,101,968 bytes consed.

Changelog

A changelog is available here.

Contact

Nicolas Lamirault [email protected]