tandamaster 0.3

A music player specialized for playing music at milongas

TandaMaster is a music player dedicated to playing tango music at milongas.

TandaMaster does not have playlists. It has playtrees, which makes it easy to create and manipulate tandas.

It comes with a configurable gap between songs in a tanda. The gap is precise, as TandaMaster automatically detects silence at the beginning and the end of the song, and takes it into account when playing the gap.

TandaMaster has a lock mode to prevent playback accidents during milongas. While a tango is playing, pausing or switching to another song is prevented. Changing the playing order during a cortina, however, is allowed. And when the cortina is interrupted, it will fade out gracefully.

Some other handy features include replay gain calculation, calculation of the remaining time in the milonga, printing out song information on A4 sheets (using LaTeX), and a stop-after-N-songs mode useful for classes.

TandaMaster has been used for more than a decade by several people (in production, i.e. at milongas), and has performed nicely, but bear in mind that this is still an unfinished project, and might remain this way forever. Feel free to contribute.

TandaMaster is a cross-platform program, but note that it has been developed on Linux, and used almost exclusively with this OS. A decade ago I successfully created a Windows package, but since then some Linux-specific code (like journald dependency) got in, so adapting it to Windows or Mac might take a couple of hours of work.