Rhythmbox

Rhythmbox is an open source music playing application designed to be distributed along with the GNOME desktop environment. It is powered by the well know GStreamer multimedia framework.

Designed for GNOME

The software will come preinstalled on every fresh installation the GNOME desktop, under any Linux-based operating system. If not, users can easily install it separately from the default software repositories of their distribution.

Features an iTunes-like user interface

It provides users with a graphical user interface (GUI) that is both familiar (iTunes-like) and easy to use. It comprises a music browser, searching and sorting functionality, Internet radio support, play queue and playlists.

Features at a glance

The view mode of the software can be easily customized. If using Rhythmbox under GNOME, you can click on its panel entry to change its look by enabling the party mode or move the Play Queue in a separate container in the side pane.

In addition, the application comes with support for the Libre.fm and Last.fm music platforms, dedicated import functionality, as well as support for podcasts. It also also includes a plugin architecture that makes enhances the app’s functionality.

Additionally, you can also enable or disable the side pane, song position slider, status bar, follow playing track, and album art. Furthermore, the panel entry provides users with quick access to the application’s preferences and plugins.

Among the included functionality provided by the built-in plugins, we can mention support for recording Audio-CDs, support for FM radio broadcasting services, instant messenger integration, remote control support, song lyrics, Zeitgeist integration, and support for Magnatune.

Under the hood and supported desktop environments

Under the hood, we can mention that the application’s GUI is written with the GTK+ tookit, which means that it works well with other GTK-based desktop environments, such as Unity (Ubuntu), Xfce, Cinnamon, MATE, or LXDE.

Bottom line

Overall, Rhythmbox is not just GNOME’s default music player, it is also a very good, standalone music organizer and playback application that works well on any other open source desktop environment.

What is new in this release:

• Bug fix release for 3.4
• Visualization plugin removed
• Responsiveness improvements during media player sync
• Better network buffering when crossfading is enabled
• Bugs fixed:
• 697567 Critical Assertion Errors
• 701608 accept --version command-line option
• 770358 IM status plugin: Remove Gossip support
• 770462 Rhythmbox should not display "Examining files 0 of 0"
• 770486 grilo plugin leaves empty directories in /tmp
• 770920 rhythmbox crashed with SIGSEGV during import
• 770983 Expand playing icon column in entry view
• 771335 Use generic signal marshallers
• 771337 Ensure same size progress bar in task list
• 771405 Update README
• 771884 Rhythmbox should confirm before overwriting playlists.
• 772997 Search not cleared on clicking "View All"
• 773404 Client: Disconnect doesn't reset browser selection
• 773466 Server: Do not transmit unplayable rhythmdb entries to the DMAP client
• 773695 Import hangs for special file ( socket )
• 773729 Playqueue UI improvements
• 773858 Link podcast feed / episode plugin menus
• 774336 Properties with long text is not ellipsized in property view.
• 775294 GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget) assertion failures when selecting "Radio France" source
• 775447 Grilo plugin needs quality column
• 776292 Memory leak in error handling of utimes on podcast-timestamp
• 781184 Send tracks: update plugin description
• 783016 iradio plugin should include WUVT-FM
• 784957 build failure with gcc 7.1.1
• 785304 open settings crashes the app
• 785805 Keyboard navigation with tab is broken by search entry widget
• 787785 DLNA audio playback stops after 30 sec, can get back briefly with seeking
• Translation updates:
• ca, courtesy of Jordi Mas
• cs, courtesy of Marek Cernocky'
• de, courtesy of Mario Blattermann
• es, courtesy of Daniel Mustieles
• fi, courtesy of Jiri Gronroos
• gl, courtesy of marcos
• hr, courtesy of gogo
• hu, courtesy of Mesko Balazs
• id, courtesy of Kukuh Syafaat
• it, courtesy of Milo Casagrande
• lt, courtesy of Aurimas Cernius
• nb, courtesy of Kjartan Maraas
• pl, courtesy of Piotr Drag
• pt_BR, courtesy of Isaac Ferreira Filho
• pt, courtesy of Tiago Santos
• ro, courtesy of Daniel Șerbanescu
• sk, courtesy of Dusan Kazik
• sr, courtesy of Милош Поповић
• sr@latin, courtesy of Milos Popovic
• sv, courtesy of Anders Jonsson
• vi, courtesy of Trần Ngọc Quan
• zh_CN, courtesy of 甘露(Lu Gan)
• zh_TW, courtesy of Cheng-Chia Tseng

What is new in version 3.4.1:

• Bug fix release for 3.4
• Bugs fixed:
• 770044 rhythmbox-3.3.1 grilo plugin crashes on reload
• 770071 rhythmbox crashes while updating metadata for file stored in read only filesystem
• 770134 RhythmDB-CRITICAL **: rhythmdb_entry_unref: assertion 'entry != NULL' failed
• 770148 rhythmbox crashes while stopping track extraction from CD
• 770167 "View All" button in iRadio plugin doesn't fire filter changed notification
• 770209 Missing sort order label in Automatic playlist dialog
• 770212 Magnatune: "Select All" -> "Download Album" halts entire system
• 770262 Rhythmbox GIR Bindings Broken With 3.4 (rb_application_add_accelerator)
• 770411 Rhythmbox should not allow deletion of default items in side pane.
• 770601 webremote plugin: Missing files in installation.
• 770920 rhythmbox crashed with SIGSEGV during import
• Translation updates:
• lt, courtesy of Aurimas Cernius
• nl, courtesy of Justin van Steijn
• pl, courtesy of Piotr Drag
• pt, courtesy of Tiago Santos
• sr, courtesy of МироCлaв Николић
• sr@latin, courtesy of Miroslav Nikolic

What is new in version 3.4:

• New web remote control plugin
• Grilo plugin now uses Grilo 0.3
• Soundcloud plugin fetches more search results and allows pausing
• No longer uses webkit (partly due to OpenBSD W^X enforcement)
• Slightly better handling of keyboard shortcuts for playback
• Core and some plugin data files compiled into binaries using GResources
• Bugs fixed:
• 703910 Entering then leaving Party Mode breaks the app menu; Party Mode status incorrectly reported
• 721926 TerraParser (lyric's plugin) is not fetching lyrics correctly
• 759589 grilo: Port to 0.3.0
• 765833 [regression] Cover art shown superposed over the song titles and artist names when cover art is
• disabled
• 766584 Referenced website replaygain.org is not about ReplayGain
• 767318 Use correct pkg-config binary
• 767466 daap: Fix warnings when configuring music sharing
• 767524 "To translators: the context is" doesn't continue the sentence
• 768545 Cannot change MP4 encoder settings
• 769404 Memory leak
• Translation updates:
• ca, courtesy of Jordi Mas
• cs, courtesy of Marek Cernocky'
• da, courtesy of Ask Hjorth Larsen
• de, courtesy of Mario Blattermann
• es, courtesy of Daniel Mustieles
• fi, courtesy of Jiri Gronroos
• fr, courtesy of Claude Paroz
• ga, courtesy of Sean de Burca
• gd, courtesy of GunChleoc
• hr, courtesy of gogo
• hu, courtesy of Mesko Balazs
• pl, courtesy of Piotr Drag
• pt_BR, courtesy of Enrico Nicoletto
• pt, courtesy of Tiago Santos
• ro, courtesy of Daniel Șerbanescu
• sk, courtesy of Dusan Kazik
• sv, courtesy of Anders Jonsson
• vi, courtesy of Trần Ngọc Quan
• zh_CN, courtesy of shijing

What is new in version 3.3.1:

• Better handling of locked Android devices
• Simplified ReplayGain processing that might crash less
• Switched to webkit2 API, except for the context plugin which is disabled
• Notifications behave better when actions aren't available
• Bugs fixed:
• 678349 Rhythmbox segfaults when trying to access Android 4.0 MTP device already mounted by Nautilus
• 744775 Rhythmbox crashes when trying to access Android device.
• 752019 Port to WebKit2
• 762087 CD playing with cross fading on crashes rhythmbox
• 762203 Display notifications about playing song when pausing
• 763206 RhythmDB-CRITICAL **: rhythmdb_entry_get_entry_type: assertion 'entry != NULL' failed
• 763435 Gtk-WARNING **: Drawing a gadget with negative dimensions. Did you forget to allocate a size? (node grid owner RBHeader)
• 763874 Rework logic of Python support option
• Translation updates:
• cs, courtesy of Marek Cernocky'
• de, courtesy of Mario Blattermann
• es, courtesy of Daniel Mustieles
• fi, courtesy of Jiri Gronroos
• hu, courtesy of Balazs Ur
• it, courtesy of Milo Casagrande
• lv, courtesy of Rudolfs Mazurs
• oc, courtesy of Cedric VALMARY
• pl, courtesy of Piotr Drag
• pt_BR, courtesy of Rafael Fontenelle
• ro, courtesy of Daniel Șerbanescu
• sk, courtesy of Dusan Kazik
• sr, courtesy of МироCлaв Николић
• sr@latin, courtesy of Miroslav Nikolic
• sv, courtesy of Anders Jonsson
• tr, courtesy of Muhammet Kara
• vi, courtesy of Trần Ngọc Quan

What is new in version 3.3:

• New plugin supporting Android devices via gvfs-mtp
• Encoding settings are now configurable per device type
• Encoding settings can force lossless files to be transcoded
• Bugs fixed:
• 733830 While extracting music from CDs, information in the "Year" field is lost
• 748857 Typos in documentation
• 749015 audioscrobbler: Fix displaying icon for libre.fm
• 751265 JSON import errors
• 751630 Sync Preferences Missing
• 751961 iradio: remove Radio GFM
• 752433 [PATCH] data: Add various mod files as supported MIME types
• 753359 Don't handle RTL icons manually for GTK+ >= 3.12
• 753767 error: conflicting types for 'rhythmdb_metadata_cache_purge'
• 755881 crash when adding files found during startup scan
• 756992 hangs after handling mod/xm/it (modplug) file when crossfade is enabled
• 757225 Freezing with crossfade backend and Pulseaudio with GStreamer 1.6.x
• 760192 commit 85c185d breaks compilation with -Wl,-as-needed
• 761030 Album-Art caching issue
• Translation updates:
• cs, courtesy of Marek Cernocky'
• de, courtesy of Mario Blattermann
• de, courtesy of Wolfgang Stoeggl
• es, courtesy of Daniel Mustieles
• fi, courtesy of Jiri Gronroos
• fr, courtesy of Claude Paroz
• gl, courtesy of marcos
• hu, courtesy of Balazs Ur
• ko, courtesy of Seong-ho Cho
• lt, courtesy of Aurimas Cernius
• nb, courtesy of Kjartan Maraas
• oc, courtesy of Cedric Valmary (Tot en oc)
• pl, courtesy of Piotr Drag
• pt_BR, courtesy of Enrico Nicoletto
• pt, courtesy of Pedro Albuquerque
• ru, courtesy of Stas Solovey
• sk, courtesy of Dusan Kazik
• sr, courtesy of МироCлaв Николић
• sr@latin, courtesy of Miroslav Nikolic
• sv, courtesy of Josef Andersson
• vi, courtesy of Trần Ngọc Quan

What is new in version 3.2:

• Support for disc and track total tags (Hubert Figuiere)
• Soundcloud plugin
• Ability to clear, re-fetch and manually set cover art using the song info window
• Build fixes for Mac OS X (Andrew Brown)
• Many style and layout fixes (Trinh Anh Ngoc)
• Bugs fixed:
• 330686 - same songs played after reading a playlist
• 554574 - no easy way to unselect the browse by album,artist,genre option
• 592706 - Unclear string "in" for translation
• 601747 - rhythmbox skips one or two songs after playing certain songs
• 733795 - configure warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
• 737058 - Add track count and disc count to the database
• 737655 - data: Add Vorbis aliases as supported mime-types
• 738101 - Failure to build with tdb 1.3
• 738529 - Crash when right clicking the track list in the library
• 743012 - Rhythmbox fails to import MP3 files with ID3 v2.4 tags created by PicardQT
• 743493 - Tracks with no embedded covert art show a random cover art from the music collection
• 743761 - Right click on any file in 'Tracks list' clashes the application
• 745395 - Duplicate symbol _rb_metadata_iface_xml
• 745399 - gdkx.h explicitly included; prevents building on Mac
• 746047 - symbolic icon is broken
• Translation updates:
• bs, courtesy of Samir RibiA‡
• ca, courtesy of Pau Iranzo
• cs, courtesy of Marek AŒernockA½
• es, courtesy of Irene SAez Sanz
• fi, courtesy of Jiri GrA¶nroos
• gd, courtesy of GunChleoc
• hu, courtesy of BalAzs Asr
• id, courtesy of Andika Triwidada
• it, courtesy of Milo Casagrande
• kk, courtesy of Baurzhan Muftakhidinov
• lt, courtesy of Aurimas AŒernius
• nb, courtesy of Kjartan Maraas
• nl, courtesy of Hannie Dumoleyn
• pl, courtesy of Piotr DrA...g
• pt_BR, courtesy of Rafael Ferreira
• sk, courtesy of DuAan Kazik
• sl, courtesy of Matej UrbanAiA
• sr, courtesy of ÐoиN€Ð¾NÐ"Ð
  23 Nov 17 in Audio Software