Oldschool music players >

https://github.com/EdSchouten/herrie ^[ 1 ] redirects from herrie.info (still mostly-gone as of 2016-03-31 - archive.org)

I don't know where I heard of this music player, but I had recently bookmarked it. I took a moment to check it out.

It failed my review.

• git://git.80386.nl/herrie

  • http://web.archive.org/web/20130922232332/http://git.80386.nl/cgit/herrie/

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• 2016-03-31 - 2.2, on Slackware 14.1

• 2014-05-07 - (version not recorded), on Lubuntu 14.04

2016-03-31 - 2.2 ∞

I installed this with slpkg:

\slpkg  -s sbo  herrie

• Can't press enter, to enter a directory.
• Needs shift-q to quit without prompting.
• Can't press enter to play a song.

• No ? or h to get help.

Oh hell, I'm giving up.

2014-05-07 - (version not recorded) ∞

I compiled this myself.

Installation ∞

\sudo  \apt-get  install \
  libmodplug-dev \
  libncursesw5-dev \
  libalsaplayer-dev \
  libasound2-dev \
  libid3tag0-dev \
  libmad0-dev \
  libsndfile1-dev \
  ` # `

./configure \
  no_scrobbler \
  no_http \
  no_xspf \
  ` # `

\make
\make  install

• no_scrobbler and `no_http (together) remove libcurl dependency.
• I am unable to have inline comments, configure will break.
• There is no no_alsa option, so alsa really isn't optional.

• no_xspf Disable XSPF (`Spiff') playlist support

  • I cannot figure out how to install that dependency.

• no_modplug Disable libmodplug linkage

  • This seems to be broken in the program.

./src/audio_format_modplug.c:34:21: fatal error: modplug.h: No such file or directory

Thoughts ∞

• Holy shit, I can't press enter to play a song?
• Holy shit, I can't press enter to change directory?
• There is no shift-q to exit without being prompted.
• I press cursor-left/right to go down/up a directory, but I can't press cursor-right to add a file. Odd.

• I start with herrie -x and then x will start playback. But playback doesn't work:

  • Sample rate or amount of channels not supported.
  • fail

Maybe a dependency isn't being provided, or there's some sort of coding cruft that's preventing things from working.

At any rate, I don't like the key bindings, and the website is gone. Maybe the project has died.

Music on Console remains my current champion.