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. Supported file formats include Ogg Vorbis, MP3, Opus, FLAC, AAC, WavPack, WAVE and AIFF. Playback is possible through sndio, PulseAudio, ALSA, OSS, Sun audio, PortAudio and libao. Siren is known to run on OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Linux and OS X.

Availability

Releases

The latest version is 0.8, released on 23 July 2018. A summary of the changes between versions can be found in the CHANGES file.

• siren-0.8.tar.gz (PGP) (SHA-256)

Repository

The source is maintained in a Mercurial repository.

• Download the full repository:

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

• Download the latest revision of the repository as a tar.bz2, tar.gz or zip archive. This does not require Mercurial to be installed.
• View the repository online.
• A mirror of the repository is available at Bitbucket.

Packages

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

• Arch Linux
• DragonFly BSD
• FreeBSD
• OpenBSD
• openSUSE
• Puppy Linux

Documentation

• Installation instructions
• Manual page

Dependencies

Build dependencies:

• C compiler (with reasonable C99 support)
• BSD or GNU make
• pkg-config

Required run-time dependencies:

• curses (e.g. ncurses)
• pthreads

Optional run-time dependencies:

• faad2 & libmp4v2
• ffmpeg
• flac
• libid3tag & libmad
• libmpg123
• libsndfile
• libvorbis
• opusfile
• wavpack
• alsa-lib
• libao
• oss
• portaudio
• pulseaudio
• sndio

Screenshots

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Contact

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