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29 <h3>Paraslash: Play, archive, rate and stream
30 large audio sets happily</h3>
32 A set of tools for doing just what its name
38 <br><a href="#feature_list">Feature list</a>
39 <br><a href="#screenshots">Screenshots</a>
40 <br><a href="#download">Download</a>
41 <br><a href="#live_demo">Live Demo</a>
42 <br><a href="#changes">Changes</a> <br><a
43 href="#documentation">Documentation</a>
44 <br><a href="#license">License</a> <br><a
45 href="#author">Author</a>
51 <li>2005-12-27: paraslash-0.2.7 "transparent invariance"</li>
52 <li>2005-10-29: paraslash-0.2.6 "recursive compensation"</li>
53 <li>2005-10-27: <a href="doc/html/index.html">manual pages</a> online</li>
54 <li>2005-10-13: paraslash-0.2.5 "aggressive resolution"</li>
55 <li>2005-09-21: paraslash-0.2.4 "toxic anticipation"</li>
56 <li>2005-09-01: paraslash-0.2.3 "hydrophilic movement"</li>
57 <li>2005-08-19: paraslash-0.2.2 "tangential excitation"</li>
58 <li>2005-08-15: paraslash-0.2.1 "surreal experience"</li>
59 <li>2005-08-06: overview.pdf</li>
60 <li>2005-08-06: paraslash-0.2.0 "distributed diffusion"</li>
61 <li>2005-08-01: paraslash live stream</li>
62 <li>2005-04-18: paraslash-0.1.7 "melting penetration"</li>
63 <li>2005-03-05: paraslash-0.1.6 "asymptotic balance"</li>
64 <li>2004-12-31: paraslash-0.1.5 "opaque eternity"</li>
65 <li>2004-12-19: paraslash-0.1.4 "tunneling transition"</li>
66 <li>2004-12-10: paraslash-0.1.3 "vanishing inertia"</li>
67 <li>2004-11-28: paraslash-0.1.2 "spherical fluctuation"</li>
68 <li>2004-11-05: paraslash-0.1.1 "floating atmosphere"</li>
69 <li>2004-10-22: paraslash-0.1.0 "rotating cortex"</li>
72 <h3><a name="feature_list">Feature list</a></h3>
74 <li>network audio streaming software</li>
75 <li>client/server tcp-networking</li>
76 <li>command line interface</li>
77 <li> <a href="http://www.openssl.org/">openssl</a> user authentication</li>
78 <li>several grafical user interfaces</li>
79 <li> <a href="http://www.mysql.com">mysql</a>-based audio file selector</li>
81 See <a href="FEATURES.html">FEATURES</a> for a more detailed list.
84 <h3><a name="screenshots">Screenshots</a></h3>
85 Everybody loves screenshots, so
86 <a href="screenshots/">here</a>
90 <h3><a name="download">Download</a></h3>
92 <p> Only <a href="versions/">source</a> is available,
93 including the <a href="versions/paraslash-cvs.tar.bz2">
94 nightly cvs snapshot</a>. All regular releases are
95 <a href="PUBLIC_KEY">cryptographically signed</a>.
96 Anonymous (read-only) cvs access is also
97 available. Checkout a copy with </p>
100 :pserver:anonymous@cvs.systemlinux.org:/var/lib/cvs
102 <p>(empty passwd)</p>
103 <p> cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.systemlinux.org:/var/lib/cvs co paraslash </p>
106 <p> Finally, you can <a href="HTML/index.html">RTFS online</a>.
109 <h3><a name="live_demo">Live Demo</a></h3>
111 <p> There is a public paraslash stream at www.paraslash.org,
114 <a href="http://www.digitalvibes.de/">the music of Henri Petterson</a>.
117 You can listen to the stream with any mp3 player that supports
118 http streaming. Both </p>
120 <p>mpg123 http://www.paraslash.org:8009/</p>
124 <p>xmms http://www.paraslash.org:8009/</p>
126 <p> are known to work.</p>
128 <p> Moreover, there is an anonymous paraslash account
129 available which you can use to have a look at paraslash
130 without configuring and running para_server on your own box.
131 Just download and run
133 <a href="demo-script">this shell script</a>
135 on your Unix system. If you prefer to do things manually,
136 simply cut-and-paste the instructions given below verbatim
137 to your shell. No root-privileges are required.</p>
141 Check that both aplay and mpg123 are installed on your system
145 <a href="versions">Download </a>
146 a recent paraslash package. You
147 you need paraslash-0.2.0 or later
148 for the demo, paraslash-0.1.x will not work.
153 Install the neccessary paraslash binaries
154 (you can safely ignore any warnings about
158 <li>tar xjf paraslash-cvs.tar.bz2</li>
159 <li>cd paraslash-cvs</li>
160 <li>bin="para_client para_audioc para_audiod para_gui" # all we need
161 <li>(./configure --prefix="$HOME" && make $bin) > /dev/null</li>
162 <li> mkdir -p $HOME/bin; cp $bin $HOME/bin
163 <li> export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
166 There should be no errors.
169 Get the key for the anonymous account on
173 <li> dir="$HOME/.paraslash"; server=www.paraslash.org</li>
174 <li> mkdir -p $dir</li>
175 <li> wget --directory-prefix=$dir http://$server/key.anonymous</li>
179 Tell para_client that we want to connect to
180 www.paraslash.org as user anonymous:
183 <li> conf="$dir/client.conf"; socket="$dir/socket"</li>
184 <li> echo user \"anonymous\" > $conf</li>
185 <li> echo hostname \"$server\" >> $conf</li>
186 <li> echo key_file \"$dir/key.anonymous\" >> $conf</li>
187 <li> echo socket \"$socket\" >> $dir/audioc.conf</li>
194 para_audiod -d --stream_read_cmd
195 "mp3:mpg123 -s http://$server:8009/"
196 --stream_write_cmd "mp3:aplay -fcd" -L $dir/audiod.log
209 <h3><a name="changes">Changes</a></h3>
211 <a href="ChangeLog.html">ChangeLog</a>
213 <a href="NEWS.html">NEWS</a>
214 containing a brief summary of the changes for each version.
218 <h3><a name="documentation">Documentation</a></h3>
220 <a href="overview.pdf">overview</a>,
221 a pdf file containing a sketch which illustrates how the pieces of paraslash work
223 <a href="README.html">README</a>
224 for general information,
225 <a href="INSTALL.html">INSTALL</a>
226 for installation notes, and
227 <a href="README.mysql.html">README.mysql</a>
228 for instructions on how to use the mysql database tool
229 shipped with paraslash. There is also an online version
231 <a href="doc/html/index.html">manual pages</a>.
234 <h3><a name="license">License</a></h3>
235 Distribution of Paraslash is covered by the GNU GPL. See file
236 <a href="COPYING.html">COPYING</a>.
239 <h3><a name="author">Author</a></h3>
241 <a href="mailto:maan@systemlinux.org"
242 >maan@systemlinux.org</a>
244 Several people helped by reporting bugs, improving documentation,
245 constructive discussions, or, last but not least, by writing
246 free software on which this project is based on. See
247 <a href="CREDITS.html">CREDITS</a>
248 for an incomplete list of people.
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