Hystrix Audio - A cross platform music library.
Reasons why hystrix is awesome:
Descriptive tagging.
Complex searches.
Cross-Platform.
Simple interface.
Blue monkeys.
Features:
(Hystrix is still in pre-alpha, not all of this works yet)
(Actually at this point a lot of it doesn't work)
- Open source.
- Cross platform.
- Portable libraries.
- Support for large libraries.
- Recent testing done with 16668 songs (~100GB).
- Support for multiple libraries.
- Tagging of artist, album, track or playlist.
- Complex searches.
- Drag and drop to your favorite music player.
- Native drag and drop in windows.
- Simple intuitive interface.
- Plug-in support.
- Support for many media types.
- Uses the mutagen library
- mp3, ogg, mpc, . . .
- Identification of music by musicbrainz ID (when possible).
What Hystrix is not:
(At least not yet)
- A music player.
- Eventually I want to integrate XMMS2 (or something) as a plugin.
- A media library.
- Hystrix is focused on music.
Hystrix is in development and will be awesome.
However it not done yet and it might be a while.
If you need something now check out Songbird or Amarock.
