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Thanks to Paul Jennings (note the new developer on the project) for cleaning up MPy3 and implementing quite a few changes! In any case, i've put what is ostensibly MPy3 2.1-pre6 into CVS under the modulename "mpy3". Check it out! It works.

mpg123 library now included, as well as a library to control LCDproc, and a library to take input from LIRC! Plenty of new changes, and she's more stable than ever -- 2.1 release in the near future.

Considerable speed-ups, X support, new libraries, the whole freakin' works! Check out the README in the tarball for the whole story!

Greetings all -- v2.0 worked has started again (i started it earlier in the summer), but as fall has set it, I'm going to be re-visiting it. v2.0 is multi-threaded, and a definite enhancement. X support is now added, as are other usability features.

Yea! Well, I finally got around to releasing 1.0 in some official fashion. Documentation is somewhat included (it's in the files themselves). Currently, MPy3 only works with rxaudio and a CrystalFontz LCD player, but considering it's all written in Python, it should be pretty hackable! So, without further ado, download it, and if you like it, then shoot me an email!

MPy3 -- witty, isn't it? Ok, so maybe it isn't. Anyway, this MPy3 project is an MP3 management/player tool designed for mobile audio/standalone audio systems. It uses an serial LCD as an output, though an X interface is planned later on.

Many props must go to Paul Bournival, the creator of <a href="http://cajun.sourceforge.net/">CAJUN</A>, the Car Audio Jukebox Using uNix. MPy3 was started as a re-write of CAJUN (3.0) in Python, frankly because I didn't know Perl, and the learning curve for Python is much lower. I wanted to make a system that is easily extendible, and easily hackable, even for the armchair hacker out their.... read more