Short:        The GUI for *all* shell-based music players
Author:       rade@coli.uni-sb.de (Ralph Debusmann)
Uploader:     rade@coli.uni-sb.de (Ralph Debusmann)
Type:         mus/play
Replaces:     mus/play/EasyPlayer.lha

** EasyPlayer (EYP) 1.24 (30.5.2004)

  EasyPlayer (EYP) is a user-friendly GUI for shell-based music player
  programs such as MPEGA, GMPlay or SIDPLAY. Contrary to most similar
  GUIs, it is not tied to one particular player program. EasyPlayer is
  *one* GUI for *all* shell-based music players that exist or that are
  still to come.

  By its concept, EasyPlayer can also be an alternative for AmigaOS 4 or
  MorphOS: Although it is 68k, music playing is delegated to the shell
  programs, which of course may be PPC-native.

** New features in this version

  * added new preferences option "Timeout" to set the timeout for
    playing modules. Note: 1.24 cannot load prefs from older versions,
    please create a new prefs file (it's only very few options anyway :)
    The timeout is in seconds, and 0 means no timeout.

  * playlists, preferences and interfaces now have disjoint version
    numbers

  * updated my snail mail address (postcards pretty please :)

** Old features of all versions

  * all-in-one: provides one GUI for all shell-based music players.
    Already supports MPEGA, GMPlay, SIDPLAY (and PlayTHX, OctaMEDPlayer,
    ProTracker, ModPlay, EasyMOD, Clips).

  * extensible: add support for any other shell-based music player in no
    time

  * easy-to-use: intuitive, multithreaded, font-sensitive and resizable
    GUI, online-help and extensive keyboard support

  * playlist: music modules can be comfortably arranged in a playlist
    which can be shuffled, saved, loaded, appended etc.

** Requirements

  * an Amiga running AmigaOS 2.04 (V37) or higher

  * reqtools.library V38 or higher

  * amigaguide.library V34 or higher (optional)

  * some (shell-based) music player programs