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  29                         <h3>Paraslash: Play, archive, rate and stream
  30                         large audio sets happily</h3>
  31
  32                         A set of tools for doing just what its name
  33                         suggests.
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  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>
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  49                         <h3>Events</h3>
  50                         <ul>
  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>
  70                         </ul>
  71                         <hr>
  72                         <h3><a name="feature_list">Feature list</a></h3>
  73                         <ul>
  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>
  80                         </ul>
  81                         See <a href="FEATURES.html">FEATURES</a> for a more detailed list.
  82                         <hr>
  83
  84         <h3><a name="screenshots">Screenshots</a></h3>
  85         Everybody loves screenshots, so
  86                 <a href="screenshots/">here</a>
  87         we go.
  88         <hr>
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  90         <h3><a name="download">Download</a></h3>
  91
  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>
  98
  99                 <p> cvs -d
 100                 :pserver:anonymous@cvs.systemlinux.org:/var/lib/cvs
 101                 login </p>
 102                 <p>(empty passwd)</p>
 103                 <p> cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.systemlinux.org:/var/lib/cvs co paraslash </p>
 104
 105
 106                 <p> Finally, you can <a href="HTML/index.html">RTFS online</a>.
 107         <hr>
 108
 109         <h3><a name="live_demo">Live Demo</a></h3>
 110
 111         <p> There is a public paraslash stream at www.paraslash.org,
 112         streaming
 113
 114                 <a href="http://www.digitalvibes.de/">the music of Henri Petterson</a>.
 115
 116
 117         You can listen to the stream with any mp3 player that supports
 118         http streaming. Both </p>
 119
 120                 <p>mpg123 http://www.paraslash.org:8009/</p>
 121
 122         and
 123
 124                 <p>xmms http://www.paraslash.org:8009/</p>
 125
 126         <p> are known to work.</p>
 127
 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
 132
 133                 <a href="demo-script">this shell script</a>
 134
 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>
 138
 139 <ul>
 140                 <li>
 141                         Check that both aplay and mpg123 are installed on your system
 142         </li>
 143
 144                 <li>
 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.
 149                 </li>
 150
 151                 <li>
 152
 153                         Install the neccessary paraslash binaries
 154                         (you can safely ignore any warnings about
 155                         missing software):
 156
 157                         <ul>
 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:$PATH
 164
 165                         </ul>
 166                         There should be no errors.
 167                 </li>
 168                 <li>
 169                         Get the key for the anonymous account on
 170                         www.paraslash.org:
 171
 172                         <ul>
 173                                 <li> dir="$HOME/.paraslash"; server=www.paraslash.org</li>
 174                                 <li> mkdir -p $dir</li>
 175                                 <li> wget --directory-prefix=$dir http://$server/key.anonymous</li>
 176                         </ul>
 177                 </li>
 178                 <li>
 179                         Tell para_client that we want to connect to
 180                         www.paraslash.org as user anonymous:
 181
 182                         <ul>
 183                         <li> conf="$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\" >> $dir/audioc.conf</li>
 188                         </ul>
 189                 </li>
 190                 <li>
 191                         Start para_audiod
 192                         <ul> <li>
 193
 194                                 para_audiod -d --stream_read_cmd
 195                                 "mp3:mpg123 -s http://$server:8009/"
 196                                 --stream_write_cmd "mp3:aplay -fcd" -L $dir/audiod.log
 197                                 --socket=$socket
 198
 199                         </li> </ul>
 200                 </li><li>
 201                         Start para_gui
 202                         <ul> <li>
 203                                 para_gui
 204                         </li> </ul>
 205                 </li>
 206         </ul> <hr>
 207
 208
 209         <h3><a name="changes">Changes</a></h3>
 210         Read the complete
 211                 <a href="ChangeLog.html">ChangeLog</a>
 212         or the file
 213                 <a href="NEWS.html">NEWS</a>
 214         containing a brief summary of the changes for each version.
 215         <hr>
 216
 217
 218         <h3><a name="documentation">Documentation</a></h3>
 219         Have a look at this
 220                 <a href="overview.pdf">overview</a>,
 221         a pdf file containing a sketch which illustrates how the pieces of paraslash work
 222         together. Read
 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
 230         of paraslash's
 231                 <a href="doc/html/index.html">manual pages</a>.
 232         <hr>
 233
 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>.
 237         <hr>
 238
 239         <h3><a name="author">Author</a></h3>
 240         Andr&eacute; Noll,
 241                 <a href="mailto:maan@systemlinux.org"
 242                 >maan@systemlinux.org</a>
 243         <p>
 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.
 249         <hr>
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