v0.1.0

Pausetape 0.1.0: the first release

Like the tapes once made from the radio, pause button at the ready: Pausetape takes the music
folder you already have and puts your own selection on a card, laid out the way the
Snowsky Echo Mini browses it (with the RECHO firmware or its own). It plays your music on
the computer too.

New to it? The website has a step-by-step tour: https://cese04.github.io/pausetape/

What it does

• Reads your music where it is, tidy or not. Nothing in your music folder changes unless
  you ask.
• Tidies names: "Bjork" and "Björk", "The Beatles" and "Beatles, The" become one artist;
  MusicBrainz suggests corrections, applied only when you accept them.
• Writes to the card only what you choose: Artist/1997 - Album/01 - Title.flac.
  Writing again copies only what changed, and removes only what Pausetape put there.
• Converts what the player can't play: lossless files become FLAC, nothing lost; the rest
  MP3 320.
• Playlists for a player without playlists, as folders of numbered songs.
• Albums stored as one file plus a .cue sheet become separate songs; covers kept only as
  an image in the folder can be put into the songs, so the player shows them.

Download

System	File
macOS 12 or later (Apple Silicon and Intel)	Pausetape-0.1.0.dmg	ffmpeg included
Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit)	pausetape-v0.1.0-Windows.exe	one file, nothing to install
Linux (x86-64)	pausetape-v0.1.0-Linux	one file; not yet tested on Linux

Opening it the first time

This release isn't signed yet, so each system asks once whether you trust it.

• macOS: drag Pausetape to Applications and open it. When macOS says it can't check the
  developer, click Done, then go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click
  Open Anyway.
• Windows: run the file. If Windows says it protected your PC, click More info, then
  Run anyway.
• Linux: make it executable (chmod +x pausetape-v0.1.0-Linux) and run it.

On Windows and Linux, the rarer formats (Dolby, Opus, APE, WavPack, WMA) need ffmpeg:
winget install Gyan.FFmpeg on Windows, or your distribution's package
(sudo apt install ffmpeg).

Good to know

• Pausetape has been used most on macOS, and tried on Windows 11. Linux builds, and passes its
  tests there, but nobody has run it on a Linux desktop yet: if you do, a few lines on how it
  went help a lot.
• Use a card formatted FAT32 or exFAT, as the player wants. Pausetape warns if it isn't.
• Your settings and library database live in ~/Library/Application Support/Pausetape
  (macOS), %APPDATA%\Pausetape\data (Windows) or ~/.local/share/pausetape (Linux).

Something not working? Open an issue: https://github.com/cese04/pausetape/issues

Pausetape is free and open source (MIT). It isn't affiliated with Snowsky or with RECHO.