Ario

Ario is one of those rare application you really need for a command-line project under GNU/Linux operating systems. It’s an open source, fast, lightweight and multiplatform tool designed to act as a client for MPD (Music Player Daemon).

Its GUI (Graphical User Interface) is inspired by the popular Rhythmbox application and can be used to browse your entire music library. It supports all the features that are implemented in the Music Player Daemon program.

Modern, straightforward and easy to use GUI

Ario’s graphical user interface (GUI) is easy to use, straightforward and has a modern look. It is compatible with various desktop environments, including GNOME, Cinnamon, MATE, LXQt, Xfce and KDE.

It comprises of multiple components, allowing the user to easily access artists, albums and songs. On the bottom part of the window, you will be able to view a list of all the songs that are part of an album, with detailed information about album, artist and duration.

While the toolbar lets users to easily stop, pause and navigate between songs, enable shuffle and repeat modes, as well as to change the volume, a status bar will show you the total number of tracks and duration of the currently selected album.

Additionally, the GUI uses tabs, which allow the user to quickly navigate between the library, file system, playlists, web radios and search functionality.

A portable application supported on Linux and Windows systems

Being designed from the ground up as a cross-platform application, Ario is engineered in such a way that it is very portable, supported on various UNIX-like operating systems, such as OpenBSD and Mac OS X.

At the moment, it is distributed as a source tarball for GNU/Linux and UNIX-like systems, as well as a native installer for Microsoft Windows operating systems. The application is written entirely in the C programming language, using the GTK+ toolkit for its graphical user interface.

What is new in this release:

• New features:
• Add a new lyrics provider (Letras)
• 3084476 : Add hotmixradio.fr radios
• Patch 3303037 (Justus Winter) : make the timeout property of connections configurable
• 3134259 - start with specific profile
• Bug fixes and technical improvements:
• Remove deprecated lyrics providers
• Patch 3106565 : libnotify 0.7.0 remove some functions (From Sardem FF7)
• Initialize libgcrypt (Patch from Justus Winter)
• Patch 3308493 (Justus Winter) - cosmetic fixes for the connection widget
• Fix bug 3302529 - segfault on opening/playing radiostreams
• Fix bug 3152140 : wrong query to last.fmA²
• Fix bug 3082592 : Typo in Playlist Overwrite Warning
• Fix bug 3153227 : Must close the window twice
• Fix bug 3153400 : Sort search results by columns
• Remove calls to deprecated methods (GTK 3 preparation)
• Add new translation: Chinese (Hong Kong)

What is new in version 1.2:

• New features:
• Add support of Python plugins
• [ 1994706 ] Add a timeout before tray tooltip showing
• [ 2016602 ] Play on enter
• [ 2017480 ] Authorize Only one instance of Ario
• [ 1897794 ] Notifications options
• [ 2069383 ] Drag and drop images for album art
• [ 2057561 ] Add --minimized option
• [ 2088157 ] New options to update MPD library on startup and stop MPD on close
• [ 2017479 ] "Replace in playlist" command
• [ 2110096 ] Track change notification with libnotify
• New plugin: Song Information
• Add the possibility to reorder columns in the playlist
• Add the possibility to configure the different trees in the library tab
• Support of empty/unknown tags (Require MPD 0.14)
• "Crop" in playlist
• Playlist shuffle (proposition from Bartosz Pastudzki)
• Experimental support of XMMS2
• Experimental support of "idle" MPD command to reduce CPU and bandwith consumption. (Require MPD 0.14)
• New translations: Arabic, Thai, Danish, Turkish, Finnish, Norwegian Bokmal, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Low German.
• Bug fixes and improvements:
• Reduce volume adjustment step (patch from Simon Sehier)
• Fix mmkeys plug-in (patch from Stanislav Shramko)
• Launch web pages asynchronously
• Update radios list
• [ 2071774 ] / Debian Bug #495757: Fix notification icon background
• Debian Bug #495687 : ario_mpd_connect_to : problems getting a response from "localhost" on port 6600 : Connection refused
• Fix text encoding problem with lyric wiki
• Fix drag and drop positions in playlist
• Auto reconnect to MPD on error.
• Fix problem with files on non UTF8 systems (patch from Зaболотный Андрей)
• Rewrite first launch assistant
• Asynchronous fill of long artists/albums/songs lists

Requirements:

• Music Player Daemon
• gtk+