MusikCube
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- The correct title of this article is musikCube. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
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| Maintainer: | Casey Langen, et al. |
| Stable release: | 1.0 (December 3, 2006) [+/-] |
| Preview release: | none (none) [+/-] |
| OS: | Microsoft Windows (only 2000, XP, 2003 Server) |
| Use: | Audio player |
| License: | Interface: BSD, Audio Playback: Proprietary |
| Website: | www.musikcube.com |
musikCube is a fast, lightweight, freeware / partially open source audio player with library support. It supports MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Monkey's Audio, and CD audio file formats. It also features a CD ripper. It has an input plugin API for added format support, as well as another plugin system for additional features.
musikCube does not and will not support skins - the interface will match the theme of the operating system, but there is a built in theme editor for those wishing to tweak the colors.
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[edit] About
Casey Langen, the developer of musikCube is one of the original developers of wxMusik. Langen left that project, which Gunnar Roth now develops, to work on his latest project - musikCube.
musikCube uses a backend entitled musikCore, this controls the database and playback functionality of the software and has no gui code of its own. From this framework it is possible to build an alternative GUI for any operating system. A Linux version exists but has not been promoted due to lack of configure scripts and makefiles.
The library database uses SQL, this way of storing data allows it to be very accessible. For example the user can create dynamic playlists that sort and gather tracks together through simple queries. This feature and examples can be found on the musikCube wiki.
The only drawback of musikCube is that it does not have integration with any music stores, meaning it only supports un-encrypted music. Thus, musikCube is only for people who have un-encrypted music collections. You can usually get un-encrypted music from CD's that you bought, or the select few music stores that don't encrypt their music (such as Magnatune).
While the interface and musikCore portions of the application are open source under a BSD-style license, audio playback is achieved via the BASS audio library from Un4seen Developments. This library is not open source and may not be used in commercial projects without paying a licensing fee.[1]
[edit] Features
- Very low memory footprint
- Clean and intuitive user interface
- Fast navigation
- Fully drag and drop compatible
- Powerful batch tagging
- Dynamic Playlists
- Integrated cross fader
- Integrated CD ripper
- Extendable interface via plugins
[edit] Plugins
[edit] Feature Adding Plugins
- I Like This!
- miniPlayer (Comes with default installation and can be deleted if desired)
- Playlist Import/Export
- MSN Messenger Plugin
- iTunes Ratings import
- cubeScrobbler
[edit] Format Adding Plugins
- AAC (no "raw AAC" support, iTunes-style MPEG 4 tags fully supported on M4A, M4B, and MP4 files, FairPlay-encrypted music not supported)
- WAV (Raw WAV files, no tag support)
- WMA (Windows Media Audio, read only tag support, WMA DRM-encrypted music not supported)
- MOD (IT, XM, S3M, MTM, MOD, MO3, UMX, only "Title" tags supported)
- MPC (MusePack, full APE tag support)
[edit] Plugin Information
[edit] See also
[edit] Latest release
The latest version of musikCube is 1.0 and was released on the 3rd of December, 2006.
[edit] Translations
There are 3 translations done by insomnia, MEstk, and amgeex. We now have Spanish, German, and French, all of which can be found here
