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gmusicbrowser : A customizable open-source jukebox for large collections.
by Quentin Sculo (squentin@free.fr)

requirements

• perl
• gtk+2 and its perl bindings (gtk3 version is in beta)
• gstreamer  or   mpv / mplayer   or   mpg321/ogg123/flac123/amixer
• (optional) the Net::DBus module is needed to control gmusicbrowser through DBus or to use the included gnome multimedia keys plugin (for gnome >= 2.18)

main features

• made with big (> 10,000 songs) libraries in mind (currently developed with over 32,000 songs)
• customizable window layouts (see layouts documentation)
• artist/album lock : easily restrict playlist to current artist/album
• easy access to songs related to the currently playing song
  • songs from the same album
  • album(s) from the same artist(s)
  • songs with same title (other versions, covers, ...)
• support ogg vorbis, mp3 and flac files (and opus/mpc/ape/m4a with gstreamer, mplayer or mpv)
• simple mass-tagging and mass-renaming
• tray icon, with a very customizable tip window, which can be used to control the player
• very customizable SongTree widget for a pretty list of songs (example)
• support multiple genres for a song
• support multiple artists for each song by separating them with ', ' or ' & '
• customizable labels can be set for each song (ex : bootleg, live, -'s favorites, ...)
• powerful search (nested conditions, can search any field using regular expression or fuzzy search)
• customizable weighted random mode (based on rating, last time played, label, ...)
• browse through pictures and pdf in the album's folder
• custom fields
• The possibility to act as a icecast server, to listen to your music remotely (very experimental)
• plugin system, included plugins :
  • nowplaying (to update an external program when the playing song changes)
  • last.fm
  • find pictures
  • simple lyrics
  • artist or album info
  • customizable desktop widgets

Plans :

• read-only support for other formats, including videos (in git, only the audio part of videos can be played currently)
• add options to read/write custom fields from/to tags
• redesign the weighted random configuration to make it more customizable, support all the fields, and maybe clearer
• handling of static playlists could be improved
• improve the SongTree widget
• support wma file format
• better alternative layouts and more layouts widgets
• translations (see this page for the translation status, contact me if you are interested in translating to other languages)
• better command system
• web-radios
• skinned layouts (partly done, but still experimental)
• lots and lots of small things ...

Feel free to mail me (in english or french) any comments/suggestions/bugs (please include "gmusicbrowser" or "gmb" in the subject), post them in the forums.
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