What is it?
Dancing QT is a combined music database and player application
specially designed for dancing schools and equivalent
applications. Key features are an easy-to-use interface, fast
search capabilities, playlist management, exact pitching and
crossfading.
Looking around the open source landscape for a while, I tried to
find a music database and player that is suitable for use in a
dancing school environment - without success. Most mixing
applications tend to be too confusing for the intended audience,
most players lack database searching capabilites and most song
databases don't know how to pitch :-(
Because of this, I decided to setup a new application - Dancing
QT. It uses alsaplayer because of its excellent interface and
pitching capabilites, it uses an embedded SQLite DBMS to maintain
a song database, and it uses taglib to populate the database. The
interface is written in C++ using Qt. Because of the alsaplayer
dependency, the target platforms will be limited to environments
providing alsaplayer.
Status
This program is beta software right now - which means that it
shouldn't do any damage but still might contain bugs and cause
problems. Please report any issues you encounter to the author,
preferably by mail to mail@volker-wegert.de. Also,
stay tuned for updates. Even better - if you'd like to tackle some of
the problems or issues on the TODO list yourself, don't hesitate to
contact me.
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