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Siren: a text-based audio player

Siren is a text-based audio player for UNIX-like operating systems. Various aspects of Siren have been inspired by cmus. Siren is distributed under the ISC licence.

Siren supports Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, WavPack, WAVE, AIFF and a few other file formats. Playback is possible through sndio, PulseAudio, OSS, Sun audio and libao. Siren has been tested on OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and Linux.

Availability

Releases

The latest version is 0.2, released on 24 October 2012. A summary of the changes between versions can be found in the CHANGES file. The releases are signed with my OpenPGP key.

0.2 2012-10-24 siren-0.2.tar.gz signature SHA-256 digest
0.1 2012-07-07 siren-0.1.tar.gz signature SHA-256 digest
0 2012-01-14 siren-0.tar.gz signature SHA-256 digest

Packages

Packages for the following systems have been kindly made available by others.

Repository

The source is maintained in a Mercurial repository. It can be browsed online with the web interface or downloaded with the following command.

hg clone http://www.kariliq.nl/hg/siren/

If you don’t have Mercurial installed, you can download the latest revision of the repository as a tar.bz2, tar.gz or zip archive.

The repository also is mirrored by Bitbucket.

Documentation

Dependencies

Build dependencies:

Required run-time dependencies:

Optional run-time dependencies:

Screenshots

Click on a screenshot to see a larger version of it.

Contact

Please send questions, bug reports and patches to Tim van der Molen.