Rhythmbox
 Rhythmbox is an
integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple's
iTunes.
It is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME
Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media
framework.
Rhythmbox uses the Linux Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) to
detect
player devices. It uses Amazon to look up artwork.
Rhythmbox 0.10.1
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Price
Free to download
Size
3.3MB
License
GNU General Public License
Developer
Jorn Baayen, Paolo Borelli, Kenneth Christiansen,
David Dollar, Christophe Fergeau, and more than 20 others
Website
www.gnome.org
System Requirements
GNOME 2.10
GStreamer 0.8 or 0.10.
Totem-plparser 1.1.5 (from GNOME 2.12)
Optional requirements for additional functionality
DBus 0.35 - allow other applications to control and query Rhythmbox
HAL 0.2 - Removable media (e.g. portable audio player) support
libgpod - enhanced iPod support
Avahi 0.5 or Howl - DAAP music sharing
libsoup 2.2 - DAAP music sharing and AudioScrobbler/Last.fm support
libnotify 0.2.1- Notification bubbles for track changes, podcast
downloading and other events
libmusicbrainz 2.1.0 - Audio cd information lookup
Support
Sites:
Music
Collection Sharing, FAQ
Selected
Reviews:
Softpedia,
InepicSoft
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Features include:
- Built-in SHOUTcast directory browser
- Easy to use music browser
- Searching and sorting
- Comprehensive audio format support through GStreamer
- Internet Radio support including last.fm streams
- Playlists
- Display audio visualizations
- Transfer music to and from iPod, MTP, and USB Mass Storage
music players
- Display album art and song lyrics downloaded from the
internet
- Play, rip, and burn audio CDs
- Automatically download audio podcasts
- Browse, preview, and download albums from Magnatune and
Jamendo
- Digital Audio Access Protocol (DAAP) sharing
Rhythmbox has been extensively integrated with a number of
external
programs, services and devices including:
- Nautilus
file manager context-menu integration
- XChat,
via an XChat plugin. Rhythmbox XChat Announcer
- Pidgin-Rhythmbox
automatically updates the Pidgin user
profile with details of the currently playing track
- Gajim
and Pidgin
include options for automatically updating the user status
with details of currently playing track
- Music
Applet, a GNOME
panel applet
that provides Rhythmbox playback controls from within the panel
- Shuffle, a gDesklet providing an interface for Rhythmbox
resembling an iPod Shuffle
- Rhythmlet,
another gDesklet that retrieves album art locally or from Amazon.com,
has configurable display strings, playback controls, editable ratings
and a seek bar
- SideCandyRhythmbox, a gDesklet-based Rhythmbox control and
SideCandy display
- Rhythmbox XSLT allows the music library to be viewed as a
web page
- Drivel inserts the name of the track Rhythmbox is currently
playing into a LiveJournal blog entry
- Rhythmbox
Tune Publisher publishes the currently playing Rhythmbox track to
Jabber via the User Tune protocol (used by the Jabber World Map)
- Blue Remote allows Rhythmbox to be operated from a
Bluetooth-enabled phone
- FoxyTunes, a Firefox
extension that provides
Rhythmbox playback controls from within the web browser
- Plugins for browsing and listening to Creative Commons
licensed albums from Jamendo and Magnatune
Last Updated Friday, April 25 2008 @ 06:44 PM EDT
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