OvoPlayer

Info

OvoPlayer is a multiplatform music player for various audio formats.

Features

• Can play MP3, FLAC, WMA, APE, OGG, MP4, AAC, M4A files (if supported by selected audio engine)
• Can read and update tags of MP3, FLAC, WMA, APE and OGG files. Can read tags of MP4 and AAC.
• Cover viewer
• Cross platform - works on Linux and Windows
• Multiple audio engines supported
• 10 bands equalizer on supported engines
• Can import M3U, ASX, PLS, XSPF, BSPL, WPL playlists

Supported Engines

Ovoplayer can use various multimedia playback engines:

• VLC - preferred choice, tested on Linux and Windows
• MPlayer - plays almost any format, tested on Linux and Windows
• XINE - almost complete (some performance issues), tested on Linux
• BASS - complete, tested on Windows
• GStreamer - complete, tested on Linux
• Direct Show - complete, Windows only, may need to install codecs for Flac and Ogg
• Media Foundation - complete, Windows only, may need to install codecs for Flac and Ogg
• UOS (United Openlib of sound) - complete (no WMA, APE, MP4), tested on Linux and Windows
• LibMPV - complete, tested on linux

Experimental or incomplete support

• FFMPEG - abandoned, API is very complex and somewhat unstable
• libZPlay - Windows only, some issues on detecting song end

Download

Binary releases for Windows and Linux can be found here:

http://ovoplayer.altervista.org/downloads.html

Source code: see below.

To Do

• macOS port
• More audio engine support (libzplay, FMod, ...)

Development

OvoPlayer is hosted in SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ovoplayer/

Source code is mirrored and kept synchronized on:

• GitHub - https://github.com/varianus/ovoplayer
• GitLab - https://gitlab.com/Varianus/ovoplayer

Git

Use this command to check out the latest project source code:

git clone https://github.com/varianus/ovoplayer.git

A compressed source code archive can be downloaded here: http://ovoplayer.altervista.org/downloads.html

Screen Shot

See Also

• Free Pascal Application Suite
• FPSound

From the Free Pascal wiki, page "OvoPlayer", as it stood on 2020-02-16 after a change by Trev, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's Licensing page. If you have concerns about this material, message the admin.