GNOME Music

GNOME Music is an open source project designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It provides users with a basic, yet modern music player graphical application. The application is part of the new re-design of the GNOME desktop environment, as well as a replacement for the Rhythmbox audio playback application. It follows the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG).

Features at a glance

It allows users to listen to local and online/cloud collections, audio files located on attached devices, music shared by friends, or audiobooks. In addition, it lets users to share music, upload music, and playback files from DLNA media servers.

Offers a minimalistic user interface

The program provides users with one of the most minimalistic user interfaces found on a music playback application. By default it displays thumbnails (if artwork is available) for all the music albums found in the Music folder from your Home directory. Double clicking an album will display all the songs from that album, as well as some basic information like running length and release date.

Two more views are provided, Artists, which displays all the artists in a sidebar, and Songs, which will list all your tracks. You can also search for a song or artist, create playlists, shuffle an album or playlist, as well as to repeat a song or all songs. The currently playing song will be displayed at the bottom of the window at all times. Additionally, the application displays notifications every time a new track starts.

Designed for GNOME

It is distributed as a standalone package with a couple of dependencies, which means that it can be easily installed and used in any other open source desktop environment. If you like the simplicity of GNOME apps, you will love this application when interacting with your music collection.

What is new in this release:

• Finished moving the existing ui to use Gtk.Template
• Added some minor transitions going to selection-mode
• Add OARS tag
• Reword application description
• Bugs fixed:
• Wait for last album to load (#174)
• appdata: Add OARS tag & reword description (!177)
• disable sidebar stack transition (!206)
• playlistview: Add translator context to Play menu (!211)
• add GOA dependency (#212)
• use Gtk.Template for AlbumCover (#183)
• tarball fails to build (#211)
• use Gtk.Template for About dialog (#183)
• App-bundles selection-mode headerbar color incorrect (#208)
• Use Gdk.Event accessors (#213)
• Add SidebarRow widget (!221)
• use Gtk.Template for Searchbar and move to widgets (!226)
• Translations updated:
• Spanish
• Slovenian
• German
• Polish
• Turkish
• Czech
• Lithuanian
• Chinese (Taiwan)
• Greek

What is new in version 3.29.2.1:

• Update appdata
• Fix issue with untranslated UI elements
• CI use flake8 instead of pep8 & pyflakes
• CI generate flatpak bundles for every commit and MR
• Use libsoup for http requests
• Use CSS styling instead of widget attributes
• Merge emptystate views
• Add optional suspend inhibition gsetting
• Cleanup and split of Player and Toolbar classes
• Numerous miscellaneous cleanups
• Bugs fixed:
• Partly untranslated user interface (#169)
• albumartcache: Do not close non-existing stream on error (!95)
• albumartcache: Fix possible lookup loop (!95)
• albumartcache: Do not send two signals on error (!95)
• Minor optimizations (!138)
• flatpak: Enable MPRIS and GNOME media keys (!129)
• notificationspopup: Fix source not found warning (!131)
• Ellipsized songs in Artists View are improperly aligned (#173)
• Fix notification calls on startup (!147)
• grilo: Fix audio check (!159)
• AlbumsView: Fix runtime updates still triggering
• [playlist dialog] implement empty state dialog (#74)
• Default search does not search in composer field (#140)
• SearchView does not use the same model as other views (#160)
• Use CSS style instead of html markup to color text (#163)
• Fix Running Length label translation in AlbumViewWidget (#177)
• local searchtag not removed when doing non-local searches (#130)
• Replace requests usage with libsoup (#144)
• Use DzlBoldingLabel for TrackWidget (#178)
• player: Add optional inhibition of system suspend (#182)
• Pressing escape when renaming a playlist does not cancel rename (#188)
• Translations updated:
• Danish
• Croatian
• Greek
• British English
• Turkish
• Russian
• Slovenian
• Romanian
• Friulian
• Czech
• Indonesian
• Spanish

What is new in version :

• Translations updated:
• Dutch
• Icelandic
• Persian

What is new in version 3.26.0:

• Translations updated:
• Catalan
• French
• Romanian
• Danish

What is new in version 3.24.2:

• Bugs fixed:
• 776668 fix seek stutter
• 781684 In Playlist view album title is displayed instead of artist name
• Translations updated:
• Belarusian

What is new in version 3.24.0:

• Translations updated:
• Russian
• Latvian
• Brazilian Portuguese

What is new in version 3.23.4:

• Revamp notifications and drop GdNotification
• More cleanups
• Bugs fixed:
• 776157 Improve notifications' interaction
• 776849 Gnome-music crashes on clicking "select all" in album
• 777127 Pressing back after no search results from single album view leads to force close
• 777235 Pressing back button when searching through a subview, should turn search off and go back
• 777216 PEP 8 fix : __init__.py
• 776673 Recompile resources when builddir is not same as srcdir
• 772975 In a playlist repeatSong/shuffle/repeatSong take effect from the next song
• Translations updated:
• Finnish
• Kazakh
• Spanish

What is new in version 3.23.3:

• Start to use Grilo for storing metadata
• Rework starring widget
• DistListBox improvements
• Stop walking directories for no reason
• Finish move to tracker async calls
• Bugs fixed:
• 774754 Use correct Grilo property for favourite tracking
• 772689 Use tracker async queries
• 775759 create_playlists cursor_callback method has a TypeError
• 775930 Correct error variable names
• Translations updated:
• German
• Hungarian
• Russian

What is new in version 3.23.2:

• Rely on Cairo for cover scaling
• Smooth progressbar
• Make more tracker calls async
• General cleanups
• Tackle long-standing issues with album separation
• Bugs fixed:
• 773478 artistviews: pep cleanup
• 772263 Use unicode in translatable strings
• 772698 async work
• 774260 handle optional album-artist in queries
• 774481 Add missing license header to gnome-music.in
• 773769 songsview: pep cleanup
• 772628 player: make progress scale move smoothly
• Translation updated:
• Czech
• Friulian
• Hungarian
• Norwegian bokmal
• Slovenian

What is new in version 3.22.2:

• Translations updated:
• Chinese(simplified)
• Norwegian bokmal

What is new in version 3.22.1:

• Make some tracker playlist calls async
• Bugs fixed:
• 765476 Crashes upon opening with GLib error
• Translations updated:
• Chinese (Taiwan)
• Italian
• Danish
• Basque

What is new in version 3.22.0:

• Update mainters in doap
• Translations updated:
• Ukrainian
• Catalan
• Scottish Gaelic
• Persian

What is new in version 3.20.2 / 3.22.0 Beta:

• New keyboard shortcuts and a shortcuts window to go with it
• Move to cleanup the codebase style (PEP-8) & use docstrings, see README
• Better sorting in albums and artists view
• Playlist dialog enhanced with a 'new playlist' entry
• Move to GtkFlowBox for albums view, a significant performance improvement
• Bugs fixed:
• 761502 Include playlists from Music dir only & order static playlists on top
• 766115 Return songs only once
• 746447 Require tracker 1.8 for titled playlists
• 765609 Fix mpris repeatmode
• 761625 Cleanup artist/author ambiguity
• 747953 Don't leak information over http through Grilo & unregister sources
• 754700 Require Grilo 0.3.1 and use the album-artist key if available
• 742531 Ignore punctuation when sorting albums and artists, requires tracker 1.9
• 758637 Implement new keyboard shortcuts
• 757833 Add GtkShortcut window
• 769774 Fix sidelist shadow
• 769772 Use GtkSearchBar for the searchbar + misc fixes
• 744834 Add new playlist entry to playlist dialog + misc fixes
• 760164 Use GtkFlowBox for albums view
• Thanks to our contributors:
• Billy Barrow
• Carlos Garnacho
• Divyanshu Vishwakarma
• Elias Entrup
• Evandro Giovanini
• Felipe Borges
• Gaurav Narula
• Georges Basile Stavracas Neto
• Kevin Haller
• Marinus Schraal
• Translations updated:
• Occitan
• Catalan
• Spanish
• French
• Friulian
• Slovak
• Czech
• Indonesian
• Brazilian Portuguese
• German
• Hungarian
• Finnish
• Polish
• Portuguese

What is new in version 3.20.2:

• Bugs fixed:
• Let GtkApplication automatically load the app-menu
• Refactor the way we connect menu actions
• 758942 Use grilo 0.3 for GNOME 3.20
• 758942 Fix deprecation warnings in GTK+
• Update libgd from master
• Scale the playlist name to match the mockups
• 759024 Use the path of the filter model in search results
• 739924 Make search find strings with accents
• 759882 Fix warnings when switching between stack pages
• Add symbolic icon
• 760033 Make albumart fetching truly asynchronous
• 760033 Defer serialization of default icon
• 760033 Set model on the view after all insertions happened
• 760033 Remove check for dup jobs
• 760033 Don't add items on idle
• 760033 Depend on Tracker >= 1.7.1
• 759587 Rework songs, artists, playlists, and albums queries
• Pass width/height during pixbuf loading
• 751163 Restrict music catalog to the Music folder
• 760381 Use GIO async APIs to download cover art
• 734958 Increase the maximum width of the artist and track name
• Translations updated:
• Spanish
• Slovenian

What is new in version 3.18.2:

• Bugs fixed:
• 755601 Fix styling for entry tags (libgd)
• 756256 Fix XML tag in help
• 746446 Reset app title to Music after leaving album view
• 756330 Fix crashes when coming back from search view
• 757227 Fix missing toolbar when coming back from search resultg
• Translations updated:
• Serbian
• German
• Greek
• Czech
• Basque
• Lithuanian
• Hungarian

What is new in version 3.17.3:

• Bugs fixed:
• 747749 Cant't play favourite song in Album view
• Translations updated:
• Esperanto

What is new in version 3.16.1:

• Bugs fixed:
• 747749 Cant't play favourite song in Album view
• Translations updated:
• Esperanto

What is new in version 3.14.3.1 / 3.16.0 Beta 1:

• New smart playlist - Favourite tracks, all views updated to allow making a track favourite
• All Artists is not selected by default - improves performance
• All smart playlists now retyurn max 50 items
• Playlists menu now uses popover
• Notification appears on loading operations
• Favourite songs are now displayed on search view
• GStreamer discoverer performance fixes from garnacho
• Minor UI fixes
• Bugs fixed:
• 744005 stars in Album/Artist/Search views
• 729525 Show a loading animation when Add to Playlist is clicked in Albums and Artists view
• 729377 Convert menu of gear button in the Playlists view into a popover
• 743310 Updates to Smart Playlist functionality in 3.15.4
• ]Updated translations and help files

What is new in version 3.14.3.1:

• Fixed an important bug on startup
• Tags in search entries are now visible
• Bugs fixed:
• 743484 gnome-music-3.14.3 doesn't detect music directory properly
• Updated translations and help files

What is new in version 3.15.4:

• Smart playlists - Most Played, Never Played, Recently Played. The list is not yet final, stay tuned. Note that we use Last.fm's way to count song as 'played' - more than 40% of song content should be played.
• Chunked loading was removed - scrolling should be faster
• Content is now hidden before fully loaded - notification on the progress will land in master in next version.
• Playlists are remvoed after time out, removal can be undone
• Dependency cnahge: libmediaart-2.0.pc is now required
• Replaygain tags are now supported
• Overall performance fixes
• Bugs fixed:
• 729376 New Playlist in application menu doesn't do anything
• 704257 Visible content loading
• 742603 Regression: empty covers are oversized in playbar, still 'in-progress' on artists view
• 742451 Support Undo when removing playlists
• 733686 Gnome music will not launch
• 726459 Crash on playlist tabs when new media has been scanned
• 702519 Smart playlists
• 742800 Playlist broken due to typo
• 742123 Hitting 'cancel' while creating new playlist crashes program
• 731613 gnome-music-3.12.2 fails to start if xdg default directories are not created
• 742011 Query: add a/an to articles
• 730269 ReplayGain support?
• Updated translations and help files

What is new in version 3.14.3:

• Bugs fixed:
• 740330 Album view - music icons are badly rendered
• 740524 Missing license headers in playlists.py and searchbar.py
• 731639 The pictures have different proportions, influencing the effect of alignment
• 729459 under Artists, tracks in the same album are very far apart from each other
• 740490 Music "forgets" search string, but search results remain
• 731613 gnome-music-3.12.2 fails to start if xdg default directories are not created
• 726459 Crash on playlist tabs when new media has been scanned
• 733686 Gnome music will not launch
• 742123 Hitting 'cancel' while creating new playlist crashes program
• 743042 Gstreamer error messages should be more detailed
• 729376 New Playlist in application menu doesn't do anything
• Updated translations and help files

What is new in version 3.15.2:

• Better thread handling while fetching album art
• Some UI/UX goodies
• Notification can now be disabled
• 'The' (and translation) is not disregarded during sorting
• MPRIS improvements

What is new in version 3.14.2:

• Bugs fixed:
• 734513 play/pause is activated twice when pressing spacebar and play/pause button is active/selected
• Updated translations and help files

What is new in version 3.14.1:

• Bugs fixed:
• 736925 Remove deprecation warnings from AlbumWidget.ui
• 737571 No covers loaded on libmediaart 0.6.0
• 736241 Prefer embedded album art over downloaded
• 733686 Gnome music will not launch
• Updated translations and help files

What is new in version 3.14.0:

• Updated translations and help files

What is new in version 3.14 RC1:

• Bugs fixed: 735890 Fix the icons in RTL with new GTK+
• Updated translations and help files

What is new in version 3.14 Beta 1:

• Ported to GtkActionbBar - now requires GTK+ 3.12
• Correct icoin is displayed for playlist menu (https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/GearIcons)
• Better search UI
• HighContrast icons
• Improved Back navigation
• Notifications now behave correctly when paused and less flicker
• Bugs fixed:
• 734786 center the search results
• 734404 Missing high contrast icon
• 734122 unable to switch to all albums view after return from search view
• 734117 Pause button does not change to play button in the notification
• 732150 Remove custom player bar styling
• 732951 Don't use emblem-system-symbolic
• Updated translations and help files

What is new in version 3.13.4:

• Bump python3 requirement to 3.3 (due to str.casefold)
• Bugs fixed: 733095 Seeking in track above 36 minutes leads to crash
• Updated translations and help files

What is new in version 3.13.3:

• Playlists are now stored in Tracker
• Back button now returns back to Search if available
• Bugs fixed:
• 707461 add man page
• 729311 Use Tracker to save Playlists
• 728254 Incorrect item is removed in playlists if it has duplicates
• 728255 Don't show playlists in Songs
• 728330 Crash when the name of the new playlist contains special characters
• Updated translations and help files

What is new in version 3.13.2:

• Improved search with source and match type selection
• Remote sources support: Jamendo, Magnatune, UPnP/DLNA
• Player bar now looks better when window is small
• Bugs fixed:
• 729100 Media art in notifications is blank instead of symbolic when media art is not found
• 729102 Notification doesn't show up when media art doesn't exist
• 728255 Don't show playlists in Songs
• 725949 gnome-music buttons have no tooltips
• 728407 Enabling selection mode via right-click doesn't work inside albums in Albums view
• 729521 Albums list in Artists view shouldn't be sensitive when in selection mode
• 706948 Only show music from my ~/Music folder
• 699807 PlayerToolbar - artist and track name can shrink to nothing
• 730205 AttributeError: 'Stack' object has no attribute 'get_child_by_name'
• 726713 Update of songs interferes with selection mode
• Updated translations and help files

What is new in version 3.12.2:

• Loggins is now less agressive
• Several improvements for playlist UI
• Audio files ouside XDG_MUSIC_DIR and XDG_DOWNLOADS_DIR are ignored
• Bugs fixed:
• 728323 Set the icon name of the window as "gnome-music"
• 724112 Crashes when cannot connect to tracker
• 729096 Media art is not shown in MPRIS clients
• 726459 random crash after a couple of minutes
• 728255 Don't show playlists in Songs
• 725949 gnome-music buttons have no tooltips
• 706948 Only show music from my ~/Music folder
• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.13.1:

• Thumbnail fetching was reworked. now should be much faster
• New dependency: libmediaart
• Updated playlist UI
• Now requires GTK 3.10
• Shuffle menu is now a popover
• Load More button was removed
• Bugs fixed:
• 724627 Playlists UX review
• 726721 Some tracks are identified as 'MediaVideo' and crash in various places
• 727444 gnome-music crashed with OSError in_on_source_added(): [Errno 5] I/O error
• 727522 Accelerator for Select All doesn't work
• 728323 Set the icon name of the window as "gnome-music"
• 724112 Crashes when cannot connect to tracker
• 702565 Load cover art on scroll in Albums and Artists view
• 699832 Replace Load More with autoloading on pressure
• 729096 Media art is not shown in MPRIS clients
• Updated translations and help files

What is new in version 3.12.1:

• Bugs fixed:
• 726721 'MediaVideo' object has no attribute 'get_artist'
• 727444 gnome-music crashed with OSError in_on_source_added(): [Errno 5] I/O error
• 727522 Accelerator for Select All doesn't work
• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.12.0:

• Bugs fixed:
• 726721 'MediaVideo' object has no attribute 'get_artist'
• Updated translations:
• Aragonese
• Basque
• Danish
• Hungarian
• Korean
• Norwegian bokmA¥l
• Polish
• Punjabi
• Serbian
• Slovak
• Telugu

What is new in version 3.10.3:

• Bug fixes:
• 709234 don't crash if we can't connect to settings daemon
• 721595 Typing should trigger a search
• 724016 don't segment artist list sidebar
• 723942 Search on keypress function opens search bar even when pressing any key
• 708154 Crash when Search button is toggled on No Music view
• 723765 Static spinner superimposed over album artwork
• 721297 Shuffle is not random enough
• 700022 app no longer fits half maximized
• 707744 Song is being replayed when paused

What is new in version 3.12 Beta 2:

• Initial help infrastructure
• More info is printed if the track cannot be played
• Last 10 played tracks are stored in shuffle history
• Other minor improvements and bug fixes
• Bugs fixed:
• 707744 Song is being replayed when paused
• 724228 Remove 'now playing' from the app menu
• 707457 Restart current track when Previous button was clicked and position is more than 3 seconds
• 725355 Do not crash if we happen to come across a filename we can't decode
• 723942 Search on keypress function opens search bar even when pressing any key
• 724954 Selecting all albums is not visible at first
• 707376 Set the position of the view scrollbar to current song when a song is changed
• Updated translations:
• Spanish
• Norwegian bokmA¥l
• Tajik
• Czech
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Hebrew
• Chinese
• Lithuanian
• Italian
• Hungarian
• Finnish

What is new in version 3.12 Beta 1:

• Initial playlists support
• Filter-as-you-type
• Misc fixes and improvements
• Bugs fixed:
• 700022 app no longer fits half maximized
• 721297 Shuffle is not random enough
• 723765 Static spinner superimposed over album artwork
• 708154 Crash when Search button is toggled on No Music view
• 724027 theme: actionbar has a doubleborder
• 724025 searchbar isn't styled properly
• 724016 don't segment artist list sidebar
• 721595 Typing should trigger a search
• 723750 The stack switcher is gone when run gnome-music with GTK+ 3.11
• 709234 Music cannot be run via ssh forwarding
• Added translations:
• Aragonese
• Esperanto
• Updated translations:
• Hebrew
• Lithuanian
• Traditional Chinese
• Norwegian bokmA¥l
• Turkish
• Finnish
• Czech
• Greek
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Galician
• Chinese simplified
• Slovenian
• German
• Italian
• Spanish
• Tajik

What is new in version 3.11.2:

• Exit selection mode on pressing Esc
• Pep8 compatibility
• Broken AppData file was removed from sources
• Bugs fixed:
• 707590 Fix app menu accelerator conflict
• 708279 Make the cancel button as center vertically
• 709033 Album Cover art not displayed in the notifications
• 707399 Add translator comment to not translate GSettings values
• 705853 Enter selection mode on right-click
• 707633 Save window position, size and maximization state
• 709465 Update position while switching songs
• Added translations:
• Afrikaans
• Catalan (Valencian)
• Malayalam
• Telugu
• Updated translations:
• Norwegian bokmal
• Turkish
• Persian
• Simplified Chinese
• Slovenian
• Tajik
• Spanish
• Galician
• Greek
• Dutch

What is new in version 3.10.1:

• Bugs fixed:
• 708279 Two patches for buttons in the headerbar
• 709033 Album Cover art not displayed in the notifications
• 705853 Toggle selection mode on right click, cancel on Esc
• 707633 Window size and maximize status are not saved on shutdown and not loaded on start up
• 709386 Music progress slider (scale widget) bounces to 0 then back to chosen value
• 709465 Music progress slider (scale widget) bounces around before zeroing when next song is played
• Added translations:
• Catalan (Valencian)
• Persian
• Updated translations:
• Norwegian bokmA¥l
• Galician
• Turkish
• Serbian
• Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)

What is new in version 3.10 Beta 2:

• All songs will now be loaded in Songs view after switching to it for the first time
• First song in Songs view will play if Play is executed in MPRIS and there is no current playlist
• The URIs are now discovered asynchronously, to make loading songs faster
• An error icon will now show up when the file is deleted
• The message when no music files are found is now more verbose
• Bugs fixed:
• 700776 Licensing problems
• 705855 Crash when attempting to get properties over DBus
• 706019 Don't use the discoverer if we don't care of the results
• 706294 Duration in Albums view increases every time an album is se...
• 706353 About box changes size when license button is toggled on, l...
• 706457 Invalid copyright headers
• 706533 More explanation when Music says "No Music Found"
• 706800 Cancel button in toolbar shouldn't be emphasized
• 706947 Can't shuffle my entire library without clicking "load more...
• Added translations:
• Irish
• Tajik
• Updated translations:
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Czech
• Galician
• Italian
• Lithuanian
• Norwegian bokmA¥l
• Polish
• Slovak
• Slovenian
• Spanish

Requirements:

• GTK+