GMusicBrowser – Open-Source Music Player & Manager for Large Collections

In Ubuntu, there are a lot of powerful music players such as banshee, amarok, exaile, etc. But when you have a large collections of music (> 10,000 songs), they are not always satisfactory. GMusicBrowser is an open-source jukebox for large collections of mp3/ogg/flac/mpc/ape files, written in perl, made with big (> 10,000 songs) libraries in mind. The window layout can be customized and make it look like Audacious, Exaile, itunes, Quodlibet, Rhythmbox.

Main Feature of GMusicBrowser:

• made with big (> 10,000 songs) libraries in mind (originaly developed with over 17000 songs on a duron800, v1.1.x with over 25000 songs on a core2duo 1.86GHz)
• customizable window layouts (see layouts documentation)
• powerful browser which doesn’t interfere with the playlist
• 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 mpc/ape with gstreamer or mplayer), m4a with version 1.1.x
• 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, …)
• filters with unlimited nesting of conditions
• customizable weighted random mode (based on rating, last time played, label, …)
• The possibility to act as a icecast server, to listen to your music remotely (experimental)
• plugin system, included plugins :
  • nowplaying (to update an external program when the playing song changes)
  • last.fm
  • find pictures
  • simple lyrics
  • WebContext : use the mozilla/webkit engine to display wikipedia artist page and search lyrics with google

Install GMusicBrowser:

In download page of its homepage, it includes source code and packages for Ubuntu and other Linuxs.

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