# rubyWax 0.11.04 audio player released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubywax-0-11-04-audio-player-released/205408>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 5, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubywax-0-11-04-audio-player-released/205408 "2011-04-05T23:42:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubywax-0-11-04-audio-player-released/205408/1 "2011-04-05T23:42:49Z")

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hello all,

hot off the presses -  
rubyWax 0.11.04 ‘wicked’ alpha - an audio player for folks who miss  
their vinyl… this release is intended for testing, but should be  
stable enough to not cause any disasters. rubyWax requires gtk2 and  
gstreamer.

tested (by yours truly) on ubuntu 10.04 with ruby 1.8.7, gtk 0.19.3,  
and gstreamer 0.10. i’m having problems installing the latest version  
of gtk2 for testing with later ruby versions, and i’ve basically given  
up for the moment. hopefully this will run for you - it does for me!

i’m no kind of programmer, please forgive any barbaric code! that  
said…

features:

looks wicked - see screenshot  
handles large playlists, which can be saved and loaded  
drag and drop files or directories to load into playlist, or select  
through file browser  
customizable colors, fonts, and title-formatting

read the, well, readme.txt file for more info…

here’s the link: [http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubywax-0-11-04/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubywax-0-11-04/)

rock and roll, buddy -

-jk

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**Author:** ![lljk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/a9a28c/32.png) [@lljk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lljk)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubywax-0-11-04-audio-player-released/205408/2 "2011-04-06T23:26:37Z")

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sorry about broken screenshot…  
we’ll see if this one works -

-jk

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**Author:** ![lljk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/a9a28c/32.png) [@lljk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lljk)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 1:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubywax-0-11-04-audio-player-released/205408/3 "2011-04-07T01:59:16Z")

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Looks cool, will try it out!

Amarok dropped ruby support, for scripting, right? Maybe this will be  
a good outlet for those liked coding for that.

P.S. Nice choice of song for the grand unveiling.

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**Author:** ![lljk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/a9a28c/32.png) [@lljk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lljk)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 11:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubywax-0-11-04-audio-player-released/205408/4 "2011-04-07T11:49:05Z")

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hi johnny -

not sure about amarok, looks like it’s done in javascript now - but i  
know there are libraries for controlling mpd  
([http://librmpd.rubyforge.org/](http://librmpd.rubyforge.org/)) and mplayer  
([http://mplayer-ruby.rubyforge.org/mplayer-ruby/index.html](http://mplayer-ruby.rubyforge.org/mplayer-ruby/index.html)). i messed  
around with both before settling on gstreamer for playback.

thanks for checking out the player, i hope it works for you - let me  
know how it goes…

i’er heights -

-j