Benben: An audio player for the terminal, written in Common Lisp (opens in new tab)

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80 pointstrocado8mo ago8 comments

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If you read the fine print, the next significant release will be written in Common Lisp but the current releases are written in Crystal.

vindarel8mo ago

It's a Common Lisp program for end users and I can literally use it in 3 clicks, thanks to its AppImage (for Linux x86-64). Good (and rare) stuff!

It's also impressive to see that the audio decoding is mostly done in CL, without bindings.

pjmlp8mo ago

Kind of, given that Common Lisp is highly influenced by Interlisp-D, Lisp Machines, so naturally it has the necessary language features for such kind of low level coding.

superdisk8mo ago

Nice, last time I used this it was actually written in Crystal. I used it at the time to render VGM files, very handy and fast. Author is nice and responsive as well, I reported an odd issue with a VGM I had and she responded quickly.

wtn8mo ago

It seems the developer has no plans to support MPEG-4 audio files.

EnigmaCurry8mo ago

Maybe try https://github.com/nschlia/ffmpegfs

user39393828mo ago

cmus is also very cool, it’s a TUI. Paging through tracks in cmus blows iTunes out of the water.

moonlion_eth8mo ago

when you have a thirst but only common lisp can quench it

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