Gimmix

Gimmix is one of those tiny and cool programs that open source, lightweight and fast graphical software written in C around the GTK+ toolkit and designed to act as a GUI (Graphical User Interface) front-end for the Music Player Daemon (MPD) program.

Offers an extremely easy to use interface

It provides users with a clean and simple graphical user interface that is extremely easy to use, but feature-rich, offering a pleasant audio experience. It includes both full and compact view modes, a library browser, library search, and a playlist manager for managing mpd playlists.

Additionally, the software provides support for download album cover art from Amazon.com, lyrics from Leoslyrics.com, edit ID3v2 tags, full keyboard control, system tray icon, and notifications.

Getting started with Gimmix

Gimmix can be easily installed from the main software repositories of many modern distributions of Linux or using the source tarball (TAR archive) distributed here on Softoware free of charge.

After installing Gimmix on your GNU/Linux or FreeBSD operating system, you can fire it up from the main menu of your desktop environment. When it opens, you will have to add the details of your MPD server, such as address, port and password (if supported).

Moreover, you can enable the system tray icon, so you can easily interact with the application whenever you want, as well as to enable system tray tooltips. Furthermore, you will have to choose the directory where your music is stored, otherwise the program won’t function properly.

Under the hood

Taking a look under the hood of the Gimmix software, we can notice that the application has been written in the C programming language and uses the cross-platform GTK+ GUI tookit for its graphical user interface. It has been successfully tested on computers supporting either of the 64-bit or 32-bit instruction set architectures.

What is new in this release:

• Fixes a compilation issue with recent glib-2.0
• Includes a Czech Translation

What is new in version 0.5.7.1:

• New translation French (fr_FR). Thanks to Alois Halel.
• Applied a patch from Vincent Legout to make gimmix link against libx11.

What is new in version 0.5.7:

• New Cover art provider (Freecovers.net)
• Fix issues with the ID3 Tag Editor (Gentoo bug #264231)

What is new in version 0.5.6.1:

• Fix location of libmpd headers in gimmix.h [thanks to Qball]
• Check for libmpd>=0.17.0 in configure script [thanks to Qball]
• Set default cover when gimmix starts.

What is new in version 0.5.6:

• Gimmix requires libmpd version to be atleast 0.17.0 or higher
• Fixed lots of crashes/lockups due to cover/lyrics plugins.
• Tag editing support is now optional.
• Revamped tag editor and now it also shows album cover.
• Speed improvements and fixed some memory leaks.
• Added Swedish translation (Thanks to Niklas Grahn)

What is new in version 0.5.5:

• Bug #313023: Fix missing entries in POTFILES
• Bug #313018: gimmix.desktop contains encoding key (which is deprecated)

What is new in version 0.5.4:

• Bug #307527: Fix missing prototypes in some headers (patch from Christoph Mende)
• Added support for columns in Current playlist
• Fixed a bug where newly fetched lyrics were sometimes stored at odd locations
• LOTS of memory leaks fixed
• Fixed some crashes due to cover/lyrics plugins

What is new in version 0.5.3:

• Bug #293908: Segfaults when disabling coverart plugin
• Bug #305662: Segfault with accents and long filename
• Added support for manually setting cover images from files
• Added support for connection through proxy servers
• Fixed random crashes because of cover and lyrics plugins

What is new in version 0.5.2:

• Improved connection handling and fixed almost all crashes
• Fix random crashes occurring because of cover and lyrics plugins
• Fixed a bug that caused Gimmix to freeze sometimes when the user clicked "Get Lyrics" button
• Interface enhancement: Player control buttons made borderless
• Fixed delays/problems while updating song info when user updates an ID3 tag
• Wejpconfig updated to 20061102
• Previously Gimmix could handle only 128 covers in the database. This is now fixed.
• Fixed a crash when saving newly fetched album covers whose album name(s) contained trailing whitespaces
• The system tray tooltip is too close to the panel. make it display a little away from the panel.

Requirements:

• GTK+
• libglade
• libmpd
• TagLib
• Music Player Daemon