“Guayadeque Music Player”
Well i came across this player a few times in the last couple of weeks and was wondering what all the fuzz was about so i decided to give it spin.
And let me tell ya i wasn’t disappointed.
Impression after first bootup:
I was just sitting there wondering when it was done, then after a few seconds it hit me “Its already booted”.
Its just that fast, click the icon and you’re instantly looking at the player no delay what so ever.
Ok so after my little wake up i decided to add my library, which is about 38GB in size so its pretty big.
And let me tell you its pretty fast compared to Rhythmbox or Banshee, some have reported it to be a bit slower but i actually found it to load my full library a bit faster, also its very light on resources compared to some of the other players.
Features:
Well it has everything you expect a music player to have, and it doesn’t really have anything that sets it apart from the rest feature wise:
Play mp3, ogg, flac, wma, mpc, mp4, ape, etc
Read and write tags in all supported formats
Allow to catalogue your music using labels. Any track, artist or album can have as many labels you want
Smart play mode that add tracks that fit your music taste using the tracks currently in play list
Supports shotcast radios
Ability to download covers manually or automatically from the internet
Suggest music using last.fm service
Allow fast access to any music file by genre, artist, album, etc
Play shoutcast radios
Allow to subscribe to podcasts and download all new episodes automatically or manually
Dynamic or static play lists
Tracks tag editor with automatically fetching of tags information for easily completion
Lyrics downloads from different lyrics providers. etc
Allow to resume play status and position when closed and reopened
You can rate the tracks from 0 to 5 stars
Mpris dbus interface support so it can easily controlled from music applets for example
etc
Only thing i can say is install it and see how you like, i think you won’t be disappointed.
Screenshots:
Installation:
Enter the following commands in a terminal to install Guayadeque.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:anonbeat/guayadeque
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install guayadeque-svn
This ppa contains the most recent build, some of these builds can be unstable.
If you want to have the stable version go to the Guayadeque homepage.
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