nominate gmusicbrowser for an Xubuntu Music Player
Ronnie Whisler
mrwislr at gmail.com
Mon Jun 12 03:51:25 UTC 2006
http://squentin.free.fr/gmusicbrowser/gmusicbrowser.html
requirements:
* perl
* gtk+2 and its perl bindings
* gstreamer and its perl bindings OR mpg321/ogg123/flac123/amixer
* (optional) the Gtk2::Trayicon module is needed to put an icon in
the system tray
* (optional) the Gtk2::MozEmbed module is needed for the MozEmbed
plugin (used for wikipedia artist page and searching lyrics with
google) (on some systems, may requires the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment
variable to be set to the mozilla lib path,
"/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-1.0.6/" on my system)
main features :
* fast even with 10,000s of songs (developped with over 17000 songs
on a duron800)
* powerful browser which doesn't interfere with the playlist
* artist/album lock : easily restrict playlist to current
artist/album
* easy access to songs related to the currently playing song
o songs from the same album
o album(s) from the same artist(s)
o songs with same title (other versions, covers, ...)
* support ogg vorbis, mp3 and flac files (and mpc with gstreamer)
* fully featured tag editor (support all id3 versions, limited
support for APE & lyrics3 tags)
* simple mass-tagging and mass-renaming
* support multiple genres for a song
* support multiple artists for each song by separating them with '&'
* customizable named 'flags' can be set for each song (ex :
bootleg, live, -'s favorites, ...)
* filter history in the browser window
* filters with unlimited nesting of conditions
* customizable weighted random mode (based on rating, last time
played, flag, ...)
* tray icon, with tip window
* customizable window layouts (layout documentation draft)
* plugin system (experimental), included plugins :
o nowplaying (to update an external program when the playing
song changes) o last.fm
o fetch cover from google image
o simple lyrics
o MozEmbed : use the mozilla engine to display wikipedia
artist page and search lyrics with google
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