Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: Floppi-Music
Version: 0.1
Summary: Crazily advanced floppy music player for Raspberry Pi
Home-page: https://github.com/Natureshadow/floppi-music
Author: Dominik George
Author-email: nik@naturalnet.de
License: MirOS
Description: Floppi-Music - Crazily advanced floppy music player for Raspberry Pi
        ====================================================================
        
        The Floppi-Music project aims at creating a "crazily advanced" floppy
        music library for the Raspberry Pi, written in pure Python.
        
        Motivation
        ----------
        
        Everyone is doing floppy music these days, and it really gets old and
        boring. However, Eike badly wanted to try floppy music himself, and of
        course I wanted to meet his desire. Our plan was to create the floppy
        music code in pure Python, and we wanted to use the Raspberry Pi to have
        a lot of high-level interfaces available.
        
        The final goal is to build a "floppy music jukebox" for presentation at
        events and conferences.
        
        Implementation / design goals
        -----------------------------
        
        Our intention was to break loose from the low-level approach to floppy
        music controller programming and use modern paradigms in a modern
        language instead.
        
        The floppy music engine is entirely multi-threaded, with a playback
        engine scheduling playback of notes for the various floppy drive
        threads.
        
        The framework is designed so it can be easily extended or used as a
        library. For example, all recognized input formats are parsed by
        seperate functions and converted to an internal format suitable for
        playback by the engine. It is easy to create such parsers for any other
        (sensible) file format.
        
        Wiring scheme
        -------------
        
        The wiring scheme for the Raspberry and floppy interfaces can be found
        in WIRING.txt.
        
        What works
        ----------
        
        -  Parsing of MML (Music Macro Language) files, via
           `MMLlib <https://github.com/Natureshadow/mmllib>`__
        -  Playback of 4 (or 8) simultaneous tracks
        -  floppi-play command to play recognized, single files through the
           engine
        
        What is planned (Roadmap)
        -------------------------
        
        -  Parsing of MIDI files
        -  A webserver to select tracks and manage a playlist
        -  An mpd-compatible network interface
        -  Control through an LCD display and buttons on a controller
        -  Self-tuning of floppy drives
        
        Credits
        -------
        
        Credits go to:
        
        -  Felix "theftf" Falk (felix@b9d.de), for the wiring and hardware
           advice
        -  Thorsten "mirabilos" Glaser (tg@mirbsd.de), for his floppy drive
           donation and magically always being right
        
        Awards
        ------
        
        The Floppi-Music project has won the following (more or less serious
        ;-)) awards:
        
        -  "Coolest problem of the friggin' month"-award in #python for "Floppy
           disk drives being out of tune"
        
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved
Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Topic :: Artistic Software
Classifier: Topic :: Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
