gmusicbrowser: A Linux Music Player for Big Libraries (> 10,000 songs)

gmusicbrowser is an open-source jukebox for large collections of mp3/ogg/flac/mpc files, written in perl.

main features

• made with big (> 10,000 songs) libraries in mind (developed with over 17000 songs on a duron800)
• customizable window layouts
• 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
  • songs from the same album
  • album(s) from the same artist(s)
  • songs with same title (other versions, covers, ...)
• support ogg vorbis, mp3 and flac files (and mpc with gstreamer or mplayer)
• simple mass-tagging and mass-renaming
• tray icon, with a very customizable tip window, which can be used to control the player
• very customizable SongTree widget for a pretty list of songs (example)
• fully featured tag editor (support all id3 versions, limited support for APE & lyrics3 tags)
• support multiple genres for a song
• support multiple artists for each song by separating them with ', ' or ' & '
• customizable labels 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, label, ...)
• The possibility to act as a icecast server, to listen to your music remotely (experimental)
• plugin system, included plugins :
  • nowplaying (to update an external program when the playing song changes)
  • last.fm
  • find pictures
  • simple lyrics
  • WebContext : use the mozilla/webkit engine to display wikipedia artist page and search lyrics with google

It comes with pre build packages for Ubuntu / Debian, Mandriva, Fedora, Gentoo and Archlinux.

For debian/ubuntu users, a very basic repository is available by adding this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list :

deb http://squentin.free.fr/gmusicbrowser ./

To check the authenticity of the package, you need to import this key into your trusted software providers list.

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