Mp3stat 2.6.01 review

Mp3stat is an MP3 and Vorbis bitstream graphing program. Requirements: · You'll need libmagic, dlopen, C++ and a unix based OS

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 29K Developer: Mp3stat Team

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Mp3stat is an MP3 and Vorbis bitstream graphing program.

Requirements:
You'll need libmagic, dlopen, C++ and a unix based OS. Plugins require additional depencies.

mp3 plugin: Shouldn't require anything special
vorbis plugin: Requires libogg, libvorbis, pkg-config
console plugin: Shouldn't require anything special
GTK2 plugin: Requires libgtk2.x, pkg-config

Compiling:

Edit top level Makefile to choose which plugins you wish to build and where you would like to install them. mp3stat is built with a non-configurable (after compile time) plugin search dir, so if you're building on top of a previous install of mp3stat you'll want to install in to the same directory to avoid copying over older plugins.

Rebuild mp3stat and stock plugins: just run make all in top directory

To install : just run make install.

It is not necessary to rebuild mp3stat if you just want to rebuild a plugin. Simply enter the plugin's directory and make/make install/ make clean whatever.

make install installs plugins into $INSTALLDIR/lib/mp3stat
installs headers into $INSTALLDIR/include/mp3stat
installs mp3stat into $INSTALLDIR/bin/

Running:

after running make install. simply execute "mp3stat" mp3stat by default will want to use gtk2 as it's default ui, but if you didn't build it with gtk2 at the time of compiling mp3stat, then it will default to the first UI plugin it reads.

mp3stat

The different UI plugins each have their own valid argumenst the base mp3stat program only has two. -u/-U/--ui and -l/-L/--list --list will list available UI plugins found by mp3stat.

-u will allow you to override the default UI
eg. mp3stat -u console

The order of arguments has some significance, since arguments are not removed from the list that have been used by the base program (-u and -l) This will be fixed in later versions.

Until then you'll want to specify any mp3stat specific arguments first and any UI specific arguments after

an eg of using console ui:
mp3stat -u console -b /path/to/some/music/*.*

What's New in This Release:
Fix rounding problem with total bitrate calculation.
Added tooltip popups for graph boxes indicating detailed graph option.