gmusicbrowser

gmusicbrowser is an open source project that provides users with a jukebox application whose sole purpose is it to handle music collections with over 10,000 tracks. It supports a wide range of audio files, including, but not limited to MP3, FLAC, OGG, MPC and APE. Its graphical user interface (GUI) is nearly identical with the one of the Guayadeque Music Player application.

Features at a glance

The application features support for multiple genres for each songs, a powerful track browser, a fully featured tag editor, basic mass tagging and renaming, and filter history in the browser window. It also features customizable window layouts and random mode. In numbers, the application can handle a personal music collection of approximately 25,000 songs.

Another interesting feature is the ability to restrict a playlist to a single artist or album, a task that can be easily activated using the integrated artist/album lock function. In addition, the program will allow users to set labels for each track, filter their music collection using unlimited nested conditions, or easily access songs related to the currently playing artist, album or track.

Offers a powerful plugin architecture

A plugin system will extend the default functionality of the application. Among the included add-ins, we can mention support for Last.fm, lyrics downloader, artwork finder, now playing and WebContext. System tray area support is also integrated into gmusicbrowser, allowing users to easily and quickly control the playback functionality (stop, start, skip, next, previous, mute, rate, shuffle). Editing the app’s settings, filter the playlist, or open the browser window is also possible from the tip window of the tray icon.

Bottom line

If you use Linux, and if you own a huge collection of music files, then we strongly suggest to use the gmusicbrowser application. Or you could try the Guayadeque Music Player software, because it's much more popular.

What is new in this release:

• fix not being able to remove filters from lists in playlist mode
• fix performances problems with autoupdated lists
• fix some dialogs appearing below other windows
• fix creating windows bigger than screen
• replace "Do not add songs that can't be played" option by "Ignored file extensions" option
• export plugin: fix wrong encoding of certain file names in .m3u
• export plugin: export more fields in csv files
• don't print messages in normal operation, add -verbose option
• translation updates: Chinese(Taiwan), Finnish

What is new in version 1.1.11:

• improve search responsiveness (improve responsiveness of SimpleSearch)
• add auto-update mode that keeps browser lists sorted and filtered (on by default, can be disabled in the songlist/songtree option menu)
• picture finder plugin: update google image, add bing and yahoo, various small changes
• albuminfo plugin: update and fix parsing of Allmusic's pages
• various improvements to song properties and mass-tagging dialogs
• gstreamer : add option to monitor pulseaudio's volume, off by default as it is unstable due to thread problems with the libraries
• close-to-tray option no longer depends on the use-tray option
• various improvements and small fixes to error dialogs asking to retry
• fix default filters "added today" and "played today" doing the opposite of what they say (only fixed for new users, if you were affected you have to edit them to fix it)
• add a new-page button on TabbedLists/Context/NB (can be disabled with newbutton=0)
• better handling of vertical scripts in vertical tabs
• fix combo boxes for setting artist options in the misc tab of preferences
• fix dialog for selecting label icons up-scaling small icons
• dbus API: make CurrentSong output more fields
• songtree: add $discname group variable
• translation updates: Chinese(Taiwan), Finnish, German, Korean, Russian, Spanish

What is new in version 1.0.2:

• This should be the last release for this branch. it consists of minor fixes and improvements and updates a few translations.

What is new in version 1.0.1:

• This release mainly fix a bug that could damage FLAC files when when editing their tags with non-ASCII characters when using Perl 5.10.
• It also adds support for using WebKit instead of MozEmbed to display Web pages.

Requirements:

• Perl
• GStreamer
• GTK+