Noatun is nothing more than a plugin loader with an
aRts interface. Because of
its
modular design, plugins could be written to do just about
anything.
It is the
brainchild of Charles Samuels with help from Neil Stevens, Stefan
Westerfeild, Martin Vogt, Malte Starostik, Nikolas Zimmermann and Stefan
Schimanski.
Plugin list bundled with noatun as of
CVS HEAD 04-29-2002 is as follows. The
ones in bold are enabled by default:
UIs
- AlsaPlayer - Modern virtual cd player like interface
- Charlatan - Sleek, efficient, uses very little of your valuable desktop
space (also my favorite)
- Excellent - Simple but looks more like an ugly cd
player
- K-Jofol - Loader for K-Jofol skins
- Kaiman - GQMpeg skin interface
- Milk-Chocolate - Simple but looks like it was designed for a blind
grandmother
- WinAmp Interface - Winamp skin loader, by default looks very much like
XMMS
Playlists
- Hayes - Filesystem based playlist
- Split Playlist - The name is terribly inaccurate. Again, very
simple.
Visualizations
- Blurscope - A fading monoscope
- Monoscope - Waveform analyzer
- Synaescope - Uh.. I don't know how to describe this one..
- Tippecanoe - Seems to be the same vis as Synaescope
- Tyler - A port of Infinity (xmms) to Noatun
- Voiceprint - Self explanatory
And the rest
- HTML Playlist export - 'nuff said
- Infrared Control - Kick ass! Now you can change songs from
across the room!
- Keyz - Global shortcuts
- Lucky Tag Reader - Uses the filename to display ID3 tags
- Madness - And I quote: "A weird and annoying scope that moves your
windows"
- Network Interface - A read only network interface
- Pitchable Playing Sound - Adds a slider widget for adjusting playback
speed
- Tag Reader - Reading/writing tags in your songs
- WakeUp - Alarm clock
- Wave Capture - Self explanatory
- Young Hickory - Adds a control to the KDE system
tray
Sources: http://noatun.kde.org and obsessive use on my desktop box.