About Luisterpaler
Luisterpaler is created to play albums on VPRO's Luisterpaal in your favorite mediaplayer. The Flash player on the website does not work very well and could slow down your computer. The Luisterpaler makes it possible to listen to the albums wherever you want and with your favorite media player. It's written in Processing, a language based on Java.
The software and the developer have no relation with the VPRO in any way, other than being a user of the Luisterpaal.
Features
The current features of Luisterpaler are:
- View all albums and tracks
- Extra information from MusicBrainz database
- Links to MySpace, Wikipedia, Discogs and others
- Downloads .swf files
- Multiple downloads simultaneously
- Toggle the settings window by pressing the TAB-key
- Indicator of progress
- Extracts .mp3 file from .swf file
- Automatically adds ID3 tags
- Change the gain of the album
- Saves the album cover
- Create m3u playlist file of downloaded album
- Play m3u playlist
Click on the images below to see a screenshot.
Download
Luisterpaler is available for Linux and Windows. To run it on Linux you need the Processing Development Environment. Download the source code and change the code so that it uses the Linux versions of swfextract and id3. These can be found on their websites.
Last update: 21 January 2010
Windows executable (includes swfextract.exe and id3.exe but not MP3Gain)
Source code as Processing project (Extract the zip-file to sketches folder)
Links
http://home.wanadoo.nl/squell/id3.html
http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/luisterpaal/
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/service/tools
Contact
For more information, bug reports or feature requests, send an email to luisterpaler@bredend.com in eighter Dutch or English.
Listen
To listen to the current albums on the Luisterpaal you can use the player below.