Perfect music player

katzen · 2009-12-13 21:26:17

I'm searching for a player that has:
- Gapless playback
- Last.fm integration
- Automatic file organization ( either when importing or even better if I can just drop music in a folder and have it organized in folders - Artist -> Album -> N title)
- MTP device syncronization
And possibly
- Automatic cover and tags fetching

Banshee has everything except the gapless playback, and it's not exactly stable and light.
Does someone has an alternative?

Last edited by katzen (2009-12-13 23:05:19)

yasen · 2009-12-14 14:04:03

If you say 'fuck MTP device synchronization' you can do fairly well with Goggles' Music Manager:
http://code.google.com/p/gogglesmm/
It's very light on resource usage and fits your description fairly well. Try it.

vacant · 2009-12-14 19:45:14

You may not need MTP synchronisation.

katzen · 2009-12-14 23:25:00

thanks for the answers, I haven't noticed that you could simply drag and drop music to my device!

Edit: I tried googles music manager, it seems fast but the fox interface is seriously ugly

the best thing at this point would be a mpd interface with music organization

Last edited by katzen (2009-12-14 23:34:57)

knedlyk · 2009-12-14 23:51:32

What about Guayadeque?

katzen · 2009-12-15 00:59:52

knedlyk wrote:

What about Guayadeque?

that seems nice but the pkgbuild on aur doesn't compile...

panuh · 2009-12-15 02:45:23

I think you should have a look at ncmpcpp for MPD. It still lacks some functionality (e.g. recursively applying ID3 tags to files in a subfolder) but it still is great.
I'm content with a player for the first time in over 2 years

LukynZ · 2009-12-15 03:08:23

katzen wrote:

knedlyk wrote:
What about Guayadeque?
that seems nice but the pkgbuild on aur doesn't compile...

U have to edit PKGBUILD and remove gstreamer-plugins dependency

yasen · 2009-12-15 09:29:02

katzen wrote:

Edit: I tried googles music manager, it seems fast but the fox interface is seriously ugly

Just get over it It's made to manage and play your music collection, not look good. The interface is fully functional. Keep it on a separate virtual desktop if you don't want it to ruin your style

katzen · 2009-12-15 11:10:58

yasen wrote:

katzen wrote:
Edit: I tried googles music manager, it seems fast but the fox interface is seriously ugly
Just get over it It's made to manage and play your music collection, not look good. The interface is fully functional. Keep it on a separate virtual desktop if you don't want it to ruin your style

Yeah I guess you're right, I already keep a separate workspace for the music anyway.
Probably it will replace banshee soon

katzen · 2009-12-15 18:37:59

Well, gmm is great. I'm using that for now.
If someone can come out with something similar but with mtp I'll be even happier (:

weakhead · 2009-12-15 19:23:31

MPD + Sonata. Minimalistic and functional GTK GUI.

It has:
- Gapless playback
- Last.fm audioscrobbling
- File organization (restart Sonata or update folder/collection by menu)
- Automatic cover fetching
- Tag editor

katzen · 2009-12-15 21:00:51

Mm I just noticed that gmm doesn't change folder name after you have changed the album name. Not a big deal but annoying anywa.

Sonata it's the next contestant I guess, going to try it soon

GogglesGuy · 2009-12-15 21:29:43

katzen wrote:

Mm I just noticed that gmm doesn't change folder name after you have changed the album name. Not a big deal but annoying anywa.

It will update your filename if you tell it to. Make sure to check "Update Filename" in the edit dialog and set the appropriate template. By default it only changes the filename, but you can change it to something like:

../../%P/%A/%N %T

or a absolute path:

/home/foobar/Music/%P/%A/%N %T

Last edited by GogglesGuy (2009-12-15 21:30:47)

katzen · 2009-12-15 23:22:39

GogglesGuy wrote:

katzen wrote:
Mm I just noticed that gmm doesn't change folder name after you have changed the album name. Not a big deal but annoying anywa.
It will update your filename if you tell it to. Make sure to check "Update Filename" in the edit dialog and set the appropriate template. By default it only changes the filename, but you can change it to something like:
../../%P/%A/%N %T
or a absolute path:
/home/foobar/Music/%P/%A/%N %T

thanks a lot. your software is great, it gets really close to what I need (:
Just two more questions:
-Is there a way to fetch automatically tags/covers?
-Can I reorganize the whole library (with that I mean that the software checks for the tags and if the directory structure is not right changes the files)

thanks again

Last edited by katzen (2009-12-15 23:32:57)

GogglesGuy · 2009-12-16 01:33:57

katzen wrote:

GogglesGuy wrote:
katzen wrote:
Mm I just noticed that gmm doesn't change folder name after you have changed the album name. Not a big deal but annoying anywa.
It will update your filename if you tell it to. Make sure to check "Update Filename" in the edit dialog and set the appropriate template. By default it only changes the filename, but you can change it to something like:
../../%P/%A/%N %T
or a absolute path:
/home/foobar/Music/%P/%A/%N %T
thanks a lot. your software is great, it gets really close to what I need (:
Just two more questions:
-Is there a way to fetch automatically tags/covers?

No.

katzen wrote:

-Can I reorganize the whole library (with that I mean that the software checks for the tags and if the directory structure is not right changes the files)

Well yes... in the exactly same way as I described above. Just select all tracks and right-click "Edit" and tell it to update the filenames. It will use the information from the database to construct the filenames which comes from whatever was supplied in the tags.

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