Other Features
Cantata offers a good range of features, some of which are Linux only.
Here are some of its other noteworthy features.
- Full screen mode.
- Search for music in your library using MPD’s search mechanism.
- USB-Mass-Storage and MTP device support.
- Audio CD ripping and playback. Cantata reads the data from the CD and sends it to MPD via its built-in HTTP server as a WAV file.
- Parses CUE files.
- Gapless playback, crossfading between tracks, and replay gain, the latter normalizes the perceived loudness of audio formats such as MP3 and Ogg Vorbis.
- Playback of non-MPD songs via a simple in-built HTTP server.
- MPRISv2 DBUS interface. The Media Player Remote Interfacing Specification is a standard D-Bus interface which aims to provide a common programmatic API for controlling media players.
- Scrobbling – To “scrobble” a song means that when you listen to it, the name of the song is sent to a web site (such as Last.fm) and added to your music profile.
- Ratings support.
- Multimedia keys – uses the GNOME settings daemon’s MediaKeys interface.
- Uses Qt 5’s translation framework.
Next page: Page 6 – Configuration Options
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – Song Information
Page 4 – Internet Streaming
Page 5 – Other Features
Page 6 – Configuration Options
Page 7 – Summary
It fails at the first page. What the hell do I put for ‘host’ when I want my own music on my own machine? Never been asked before on any music program.
If the MPD server is running on the same system as Cantata, enter localhost in the Host input field.