XNOISE

XNOISE is an open source, free, lightweight and fast media player application tailored specifically for GTK-based graphical desktop environments, such as GNOME, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE or Xfce.

It offers a slick GUI (Graphical User Interface), great speed and lots of interesting features that we’ve listed at a glance in the next section. Unlike Rhythmbox or Banshee, XNOISE uses a tracklist centric design that can play any kind of audio/video stream that GStreamer can handle.

Features at a glance

Key features include fast searchable media library, album art view, video and music support, equalizer with sound presets, smart playlists, ID3 tag editing, automatic album art fetching, now playing pane, state restore, can play virtually all media, as well as support for media keys.

While it has been designed from the offset to be used on GTK-based desktops like GNOME, Xfce, LXDE, MATE or Cinnamon, the project integrates well in the Unity user interface of the Ubuntu Linux operating system.

Intuitive and attractive GUI

Its graphical user interface is modern, intuitive and attractive. It will ask users to import their multimedia files from the get-go. The application supports as many folders and media content as you have stored on your computer.

The clean and hippsteristic design of the XNOISE software will make you use it on a regular basis. On the left side of the window, you can easily access the main categories and playlists, as well as to search your entire library. On top of the window, you’ll find the main toolbar that allows you to easily control your media, change the volume or access app’s settings.

The rest of the window is occupied by the tracklist component of the application, allowing the user to view all of the items from the selected category or playlists. Using four small floating buttons, you will be able to clear the tracklist, jump to current position, remove selected tracks, and change the playback mode (no repeat, one after another repeat single track, repeat all and random playlist track playing).

What is new in this release:

• Fix crasher bug with screen saver management
• Add new screen saver manager
• Update some translations

What is new in version 0.2.20:

• Redo the import dialog
• Real-Time Monitor media folders for changes
• Check media folders for changes that happened during the time xnoise wasn't running
• GUI improvements/changes
• Change drawing of album art
• Trim Settings dialog
• Use application menu, only
• Remove title-to-decoration plugin
• Automatically activate some of the plugins
• Use new libtaginfo API for tag reading/writing
• Udate tag editing mechanism
• Many Bug fixes
• Updated translations

What is new in version 0.2.19:

• Don't ignore last song in random mode.
• GUI updates
• Allow compilation with valac 0.22
• Changes for Settings dialog
• AsyncQueues for background worker threads
• Add media browser visibility option to app menu
• Media browser rendering fixes for Adwaita
• Fix rendering of background on Manjaro + Adwaita
• Desktop file fixes
• Localization fixes
• More bug fixes
• Updated translations

What is new in version 0.2.18:

• Improvements for 'various artists' albums
• Make use of disk number tag
• Change caching strategy for album art
• New sort mode for music browser: ALBUM-ARTIST-TITLE
• Change panel icon
• Prevent backlight dimming in fullscreen mode
• Use spin button for year tag editing in albums
• Make insertion of imported tracks into music browser faster
• Improve album art discovery
• Work around memory leak
• Require libtaginfo version 0.1.6
• Changes for possible build with clang
• Automatically expire notifications on xfce
• Do not switch main view if device is plugged in
• Separate handling of toolbars with 'Ambiance' / 'Radiance' theme
• Add some possibility for runtime reference tracking
• Translation updates
• Various bug fixes
• Cleanups

What is new in version 0.2.15:

• Handle 'Various artists' albums and compilations
• Add CD Rom device type (preview listening, only)
• Change button style in toolbar
• Handle tray icon visibility via setting, only
• Add sequencial loading for album art view for better user experience on large search results
• Add commandline option for 'hidden window' mode
• Translate and extend unity quicklist options
• Add DockableMediaManager class (tradiaz)
• Add combobox media selector (tradiaz)
• Add animated showing/hiding of tree media selector
• Add gstreamer-plugins-base to runtime dependencies
• Allow editing of genre
• Adjust volume on scroll on video screen/'now playing' pane
• Add local fallback icons for xnoise
• Use gnome's 'emblem-system-symbolic' for the application button (0rAX0)
• More icon work
• Update some translations
• Many bug fixes

What is new in version 0.2.13:

• Add new Album Art view with search
• New Xnoise Icon (icon by Reda Lazri)
• Recreated 'Now Playing' image rendering with reflections
• Add weblink to keyboard shortcuts in help menu
• Add Ctr-B keybinding for toggling album art view
• Use symbolic icon in volume slider
• Implement MPRIS 2 seek
• Mingw compatibility fixes
• Enable support for more media types
• Update translations
• Bug fixes

What is new in version 0.2.8:

• Add Magnatune plugin
• Put the UbuntuOne plugin into a seperate deb, so that dependeny to libubuntuoneui is avoided
• Add script that autoamtically creates *.deb pakages on dabian and debian based distros (Tal Hadad)
• Add packaging folder to source distrubution
• Update packaging data
• Update po/cs.po (psimacek)
• Use blue color to indicate active searches because red looks like nothing was found
• Automatically distribute changelog
• Fix crasher with title-to-decoration plugin
• Fix potential crasher in signal handler of mpris plugin
• Bug fixes

What is new in version 0.1.31:

• port xnoise to gtk+-3.0
• add option for disabling video subtitles
• stop using uris for the title search
• mediabrowser: gtk3 compatible font rendering with linebreaks
• update some translation
• lastfm plugin: make scrobbling optional (cover fetching can be used without logging an user into lastfm)
• remove deprecated HBox/VBox widgets
• use icons for drag'n'drop
• drop dependency to libunique (now gio's application class)
• remove old versions of notification and soundmenu plugins
• many bug fixes

What is new in version 0.1.30:

• add new lastfm plugin (scrobble, replace lastfmcovers plugin)
• add more support for importing playlist files (Francisco PArez Cuadrado)
• add new jump to position button
• use Ctrl-M for media browser toggling
• add Czech translation
• update translations
• replace markup reader with wrapper class for glib's markup reader
• autotools: remove *_DEPRECATED macros (fix issue 87)
• fixes

Requirements:

• gtk+
• GStreamer
• TagLib
• LibUnique
• SQLite