Quimup

Quimup is an open source, cross-platform and free graphical software that has been designed to act as a client for the popular Music Player Daemon (MPD) command-line program. It aims to provide playlist management via drag and drop, as well as playback functions directly accessible from the system tray area.

Easily control your MPD server

The application provides a clean graphical user interface (GUI) that makes controlling your MPD server easily and intuitively, turning it into a perfect desktop music player for any GNU/Linux operating system and desktop environment. Among other interesting features, we can mention that Quimup supports album art and has been designed to be used only with a mouse device.

Getting started with Quimup

After installing Quimup using the below instructions, you should be able to open it from the Audio menu of your desktop environment. Users will be prompted by a welcome that notifies them that the application must access MPD’s music directory in order to find album art.

You can add files straight from your file manager, using drag & drop, into the main window. If MPD is not installed on your computer or it uses a custom configuration directory, you will get a warning dialog after closing the welcome dialog, so make sure that you go to the “Connect” tab of the Settings dialog and adjust the options accordingly.

Supported on Ubuntu, Debian, Arch Linux and openSUSE

Quimup is officially supported on major GNU/Linux operating systems, including Ubuntu, Debian, Arch Linux and openSUSE, with pre-built binary packages that can be easily installed through the integrated package manager of the respective distribution.

Under the hood

Looking under the hood of the Quimup project, we can notice that the C++ programming language has been used to write the code and the Qt GUI toolkit is used for the modern and attractive graphical user interface. Quimup is a cross-platform application, supported on all GNU/Linux operating systems (32-bit and 64-bit), as well as on the FreeBSD distribution.

What is new in this release:

• Coded: Migrated the code to QT5
• Fixed: After changing colors wrong album-art could be shown.
• Added: Use embedded cover art from asf and ape-tagged mp3.

What is new in version 1.4.0:

• Coded: Migrated the code to QT5
• Fixed: After changing colors wrong album-art could be shown.
• Added: Use embedded cover art from asf and ape-tagged mp3.

What is new in version 1.3.2:

• Fixed: Provided password was not used unconditionally.
• Fixed: Playlist not updated when a dropped item was rejected.
• Fixed: Settings were not saved upon system shutdown/logout.
• Fixed: Could not find translation(s) in default location.
• Fixed: Music dir was not always found automatically.
• Added: Use embedded cover art (mp3 ogg mpc mp4 flac wv ape).
• Added: Player and Browser now respond to ‘media keys'.
• Added: Support for *.cue playlist files in folder view.
• Added: ‘Reset status' to playlist context menu.
• Added: ‘-l none' to cmd parameters to force internal locale.
• Added: More extensions are accepted for D&D operations.
• Other: Some cosmetic tweaks, as usual.

What is new in version 1.3.1:

• Added: Support for the 'Disc Number' tag.
• Added: Stream loader can handle compound urls better.
• Added: Manually override MPD's (remote) music dir.
• Fixed: Crash upon calling mpd_return_pair (Archlinux).
• Fixed: Player changed position after hide-show toggle.
• Fixed: Allow more time to connect to MPD at start-up.
• Fixed: Possible wrong sorting order of dragged items.
• Coded: Project 'includes' libmpdclient using pkg-config.

What is new in version 1.3.0:

• Added: "Drag & drop" from file manager to quimup.
• Added: "Open with" from file manager (%U or %F).
• Added: Single-instance-mode (by default).
• Added: Localization support (no translations yet).
• Added: Command line parameters (try "quimup -help").
• Added: Rescan tags for any selection (library menu).
• Added: Folder search in the browser.
• Added: Check if mpd is running when quimup starts up.
• Added: Option to apply colors to the album info widget.
• Added: Music directory is requested from MPD (0.17+).
• Added: Playlist scrolls to drop-position after d&d.
• Added: Drop on playlist allows insert (not just append).
• Added: Manually controlled widths in library and playlist.
• Added: Track titles shown across all colums in library.
• Added: A first-run dialog with some useful tips.
• Added: More details on command line in case of MPD-errors.
• 23 bug fixes and code improvements

What is new in version 1.2.0:

• Settings are now saved when applied (and on exit).
• The volume slider is now always visible (was a pop-up).
• The volume slider keeps the focus after a button click.
• The progress bar is snappier (now based on QSlider).
• "Modified" mode now sorts albums (rather than folders).
• "Modified" now also possible when mpd runs remotely.
• "Modified" now puts most recent item on top of the list.
• "Modified" now handles missing tags correctly.
• New library mode: Albums sorted by year (i.e. date tag).
• Replaygain mode can now be set on the fly from Quimup.
• Library and Playlist can be toggled to use full window.
• Improved automatic column-width handling (i.m.h.o.).
• "Reload audio tags" even when mod-time has not changed.
• Fixed: ‘Played' status was reset by "Reload audio tags".
• Fixed: No response to ‘disconnected' when in ‘idle' mode.
• "Collapse all" was added to the Library context menu.
• Row colors now alternate in the library and playlist.
• Tray icons were replaced (new and larger images).
• Windows now always open normally (and never minimized).
• Some minor cosmetic tweaks, as usual.

What is new in version 0.3.5:

• Fixed: "KDE logout was cancelled by process quimup." (thanks Tilman Vogel).
• Changed: Symlinks can now be used for album art (thanks Tilman Vogel).
• Changed: Main MPD version is now shown as x.x (was the 'API' version x.x.x).

Requirements:

• Music Player Daemon
• Qt