Shrill: a Perl-GTK Jukebox

Introduction

Shrill is a kiosk-style digital audio jukebox written in Perl, designed with simplicity and ease-of-use in mind. The application is built as a frontend to mserv, a featureful MP3/OGG/etc playback server. I wrote this frontend specifically to be used in my living room on my HTPC. Shrill is released under the GNU General Public License.

Features

• Albums browsable by album art
• Easily navigable by keyboard, and by extension, remote control
• Individual track queueing, and random play mode when queue is empty
• Supports playback of any format that mserv supports

Screenshots

This is what it looks like:

Extra

• ogg_meta.pl - All of my music is encoded in Ogg Vorbis format. Mserv's handling of vorbis metadata is pretty poor, so I have included in the distribution a script called ogg_meta.pl, which will create all of the proper files from vorbiscomment data. It requires the Perl module Ogg::Vorbis::Header::PurePerl.

Older releases available here.