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submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by GustavoM@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Click here to download it.

This is basically "winamp, but it plays (exclusively) .ogg files instead and is heavily optimized to provide the lowest CPU usage possible" -- there's an equalizer, playlist, a volume bar. A feature that minimizes CPU use when the application is on the foreground. And yes, the graph does work and is perfectly syncronized with the song. And all you see here are purely made of code -- no .png or .bmp files included, don't worry about it. And logically, no need to run wine or some other shoddy translation layer -- it all runs natively on your PC.

CPU usage is comically low, as you can see here (tested on a orange pi 5 max):

To unpack the file, download dependencies and compile (on a debian distro, while in the same directory as where the llamamp.tar.gz file has been downloaded): tar -xf llamamp.tar.gz && sudo apt install -yq build-essential pkg-config libsdl2-dev && make -j$(nproc). Install it with sudo make install.

Compatibility: Pretty much anything you've got. It runs on X11, wayland or on nothing at all.

How to use it: Run "llamamp /path/to/song.ogg" or use the playlist.

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[-] halm@leminal.space 3 points 3 hours ago

Why forego a repo URL in favour of a download link? The repo at https://gitlab.com/gee.8ruhs/writteninc has no development files, no version tracking, no licenses...

That, and the obvious LLM reference in the name, makes this whole project a big no-go for me.

[-] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

Before you get too far into reinventing the wheel, you might want to check out xmmp or webamp which both do a fine job of supporting Opus, Ogg, and FLAC.

I set mine up with support for ever winamp skin i could find

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

What license? Public domain?

[-] TrollAccount69@lemmy.ml 6 points 14 hours ago

Why not fork xmmp or qmmp or any of the other Winamp clones?

I’m not complaining, I genuinely want to know what differentiates this software.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 17 hours ago
[-] m532@lemmy.ml 3 points 13 hours ago

The download link goes to gitlab, you can cut off the end to go to the source.

[-] fhein@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The gitlab repo appears to be a dump of random small .c programs and different .tar.gz archives. The download link OP provided is the source.

[-] m532@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

Oh. I was a bit confused at the names of the files, but now it makes sense.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 hours ago

i hope that this project can survive the ai hysteria that's going on rn.

[-] GustavoM@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

It won't, sadly. All it took was a single baseless reply to throw this project into the trash can (see: the downvote barrage happening right after it).

At least I had fun doing this... so it's all good.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 hour ago

I downvoted not because of any AI concern but because it's clearly a crappy personal project. Nobody should use this.

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