WHAT IS SONIC SCOUT DRIVER?

The Sonic Scout Driver is a tool to explore the Sonic Universe, where artists become stars, album become continents and a track playing becomes a landscape hiking.

It is the local side of the Sonic Universe, for the corresponding online initiative, see here (wiki)

Purpose

The main purpose is to display a different visualization of the music universe that is your local music library, and hopefully get an easier navigation. The system allows to play the selected continents (if the track is present on the user's file system), to annotate it and to keep track of the journey.

Notice that if you only listen to online music, the interest of this tool will be very low for you.

The long-distance goal is to create an open-source software and a common base for international and platform-free environment for music exploration, de-correlated with the actual content of tracks to avoid copyright issues.

Features

About the music player side: SSD can do a lot of things:

• Music play: recognizes mp3, ogg, flac, webm, mp4, and fetches file metadata
• History: possibility to keep track of all listened songs,
• Advanced navigation through previously heard songs,
• Scoring: automatic evaluation of each track
• Autopilot: Focusing on the visible elements, random selection avoiding track replay
• Subtitles: System handles .lrc and .srt text files for subtitles, they can be automatically imported from a SAF instance
• Session transfer: Possible to export/import exploration data to/from a SAF instance

To learn more

To have further information about installation and requirements, look the Install section.

For the launch options, see the Launch page.

Some basic tutorials are accessible in the Tuto page

For advanced analysis of the concepts and elements used in SSD, look the Concept index.

Current state

The current version, SSD 0.2, is a draft. It contains all the fundamental features needed for the upcoming development, nothing less but nothing more. The point of this alpha version is also to have your feedback and issue report. For advanced feedback, you can send an e-mail to lemni (dot) ze (dot) kat %arobase% gmail (dot) come (without the e at come), and for bug report you can use the convenient tool of gitlab.

Evolution

Many aspects are under construction, and most of the aspects are under-exploited. Many paths begin at this crossroad, but there is not enough time nor energy to take them all. So it will be a collective task to determine the chosen directions, based on the required conception, development and testing time and interest of the feature.

For example a central point would be to make SSD a multiplayer system, to allow the share of comments and impresses on music elements.

Enjoy your trip in the first effective space opera!

NB: if you are interested in being part of the development crew, the code is open and I will be happy to check your merge request and credit your participation ;)