sadplay

Sadplay is a simple, old-school AdLib player that uses the AdPlug library to play music, FFTW to analyze its spectrum, and SDL2 to show the result in a nice way.

In case you are sad and have nostalgia of the old times, you can play your favorite Adlib tunes and release your sadness.

Invoking the command line

The program must be called with either a list of files to play or the -f option followed by a text files containing the names of the files to be played (one per line).

sadplay [-v] [-l <logfile>] [-f <list_file>] [-r] <file1> [<file2>] [...]

Follows a description of the arguments:

Switch	Argument	Description
-v		Turn on verbose messages
-l	<logfile>	Output messages to <logfile>
-f	<list_file>	Get the file list from <list_file>
-r		Repeat the file list
-c		Continuous play of each song (until interruptes)
-s		Shuffles the playlist before playing it
	<file1>	Files to be played. With -f they are ignored

Commands during execution

The following keys can be used to control sadplay during the execution.

Keys	Command
q	Quits the program
n RIGHT ARROW DOWN ARROW	Plays the next song
LEFT_ARROW UP ARROW	Plays the previous song
SPACE	Pauses/resumes the song
C	Show the license
W	Show the (no) warranty
I	Show song information
H	Get help on commands

Compilation

The compilation has been tested on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS and on MacOS Mojave (10.14.6)

Prerequisites

The following libraries should be installed, with their headers:

• AdPlug v2;
• FFTW v3: also the fftw-mpi module is required;
• SDL2.

Compilation

The sources can be configured using the "standard" autoconf/automake magic:

./configure

And running make:

make

The following step could need superuser privileges to install the executable in /usr/local/bin:

make install

Binary packages

No binary packages at this time. Maybe in the future, in the meantime you can compile from the sources and feel even more nostalgic. :-)

Authors

Right now I (Marco Confalonieri) am the only developer. Many thanks to the authors of the wonderful libraries that allowed me to write this little piece of code with just a fraction of the effort that I would have needed to write everything from scratch.

Credits

The routine for feeding the SDL audio buffer is shamelessly taken from the UNIX version of AdPlay. I believe the authors are Simon Peter and Mike Gorchak.