Nightingale

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Nightingale
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Version: 1.12.1
Upload Date: 17 Feb 15
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 47

Rating: 1.0/5 (Total Votes: 1)

Nightingale is an open source graphical software written in C++ around the GTK+ toolkit and forked from the popular Songbird media player, which is no longer available for Linux operating systems.

With its beautifully crafted user interface, Nightingale is capable of playing MP3, FLAC, OGG Vorbis, WAV, OGG Theora, as well as many other formats that are supported by the GStreamer multimedia framework.

Nightingale is easily extendable via add-ons, can be customized to look the way you want, includes fast full text library search, an integrated browser, powerful library browsing and organization, and support for multiple operating systems, including Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

What is new in this release:

  • We cleaned up quite a bit: More legacy code from Songbird was removed or disabled, thus we expect the release to be more stable. There are also some bugs fixed, such as the Unity integration causing a crash in Ubuntu 13.04, battery drain in OS X Lion or newer and playback not properly updating the play counts.
  • As mentioned in a previous blog post, freaktechnik implemented some beautiful firstrun pages, which will present you changes after updates or overall information on the very first start. Through our newly introduced statistics page, this will also help us to track installations and upgrades to find update-related issues. Note that if you dislike the firstrun page, you can visit about:config and set the preference ‘nightingale.update.url' to ".
  • Additionally, GeekShadow implemented a new localization infrastructure and will contact past Songbird translators. He got rid of the last Songbird references, and thanks to our translators and reviewers many locales were improved quite a lot. However, there are still some locales without maintainers; and even if your locale already has one it would be great if you volunteer for proofreading and translating Nightingale's strings! When updating, you may need to re-download the language packs for this change to take effect.
  • We also did some backend work switching to a new update infrastructure, as Google Code shuts down its downloads section. Updates are now handled through GitHub, where we also keep our main source code repository. An issue preventing Linux updates got fixed as well, so you should be able to auto-update from tarballs in the future.
  • As this is our first release after the shutdown of Songbird we replaced everything provided through Songbird infrastructure with our own services. To see everything we changed in 1.12.1, check out the official release notes.
  • The IDs of some add-ons changed, namely mashTape, SHOUTcast and Last.fm. This means Nightingale will find new add-ons and ask you, if you want to install them. Since the ID changed, they will not override the existing extensions. The previous versions of those add-ons will show up in the extensions manager as incompatible with Nightingale 1.12.1 and can be uninstalled.
  • Unity and libnotify integration have been split up into two optional components. Thanks to this the nightingale-nounity package now also includes libnotify integration. For those who don't want, or can't use our PPA, we still offer GNOME/Unity integration builds.

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