Musique

From the creator of Minitube, we welcome you to Musique, a multi-platform, open source and completely free software project that allows users to playback their entire music collection from the comfort of their Linux, Windows or Mac desktops.

You can look artists in the face

The application has been designed in such a way that it allows users to look their artists in the face, by browsing their entire music collection by album covers and artists pictures, and it will find and display the lyrics of any track.

It uses a simple play queue

Another interesting feature of Musique is the ability to allow users to browse folders and files in order to view their music collection exactly the way they organized it. In addition, it uses a simple play queue.

Supports lyrics

The application will automatically find and display song lyrics in the Info View. In addition, you can easily switch to full-screen mode from the View menu, as well as to activate the shuffle and repeat modes with a click of a mouse button.

It’s cross-platform, written in Qt

Just like Minitube, Musique’s graphical user interface has been written entirely in the Qt GUI toolkit, which means that it’s a platform-independent application that supports a wide range of operating systems and desktop environments.

The application runs well on GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows

Being designed from the ground up as a cross-platform application, Musique runs well on GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It can use either the GStreamer or VLC multimedia backends.

Supports Ubuntu and other Linux OSes

Officially, Musique supports Ubuntu, as you can easily install the application with a click of a mouse button from the project’s website (see link above). You can also download the source code if you want to install it on other Linux OSes.

What is new in this release:

• Style refresh to make Musique feel at home on OS X Yosemite and Windows 8
• Enhancements to the search suggestions
• Make the volume handle red when volume is zero
• Hide the status bar when in the Info View
• Remote collections: do not update collection if dir does not exist or is empty
• Added -stop-after-this command line switch
• Fixed duplicate tracks when playing an artist
• The Mac version is now 64bit and works on 10.6 or later
• The Windows version has been updated to the latest VLC
• Linux: Added Stop After This Video Unity & Gnome 3 action
• Goodbye Ubuntu Software Center!
• New and updated translations

What is new in version 1.3:

• Album and artist sorting
• Album covers in the playlist
• Faster artist and album views
• Notification at end of collection scan
• Notification support on Ubuntu
• Gapless playback (Only works on Linux with the GStreamer Phonon backend)
• Find more local covers (added GIF, PNG, BMP and JPEG file types)
• Fixed homonymous albums from different artists being erroneously merged
• Fixed albums not correctly sorted when playing an artist
• Fixed play icon hover animation in Folders view
• Fixed lyrics showing showing garbage in some cases
• Fixed handling of tracks that have no associated album
• New and updated translations. A big thank you to the translators!

Requirements:

• Qt