Music Applet

Music Applet is a small, simple GNOME panel applet that lets you control Rhythmbox's playback from a panel.

Advantages that this applet has over using the icon Rhythmbox puts in the notification area include:

- One-click access to the main operations needed during playback, without needing to use a context menu.
- Display of the current playing time without requiring a mouse-over.
- Display of the current song's album in the song information.

Music Applet currently supports the following music players:

- Banshee
- Rhythmbox

Music Applet is the successor to Rhythmbox Applet.

What is new in this release:

• Handle the case where a notification popup gets destroyed prematurely, to prevent the applet from hanging when the player closes.
• Fix processing of album art retrieved from Rhythmbox so that it shows in the song info tooltip.

What is new in version 2.5.0:

• Added support for Amarok 2.
• Fixed uncontrolled growth of applet in the panel when displaying long metadata strings.
• Fixed multiple bugs in detecting song changes when playing Internet radio streams.
• Fixed multiple bugs in communications with MPRIS-based players (Amarok 2, Audacious, and VLC).
• Improved loading of album art from Rhythmbox.
• Handle the rating scale change in Exaile 0.2.14 from 8-star to 5-star ratings.
• Fixed improper entity encoding of song titles in notification popups.
• Replaced use of deprecated mpdclient2 library with python-mpd in the MPD plugin.

Requirements:

• Rhythmbox
• xmlBlaster