![]() ![]() Usually, if I want to listen to a whole album, I'll double-click the first song to start playing, and then shift-click to select the other songs I want. Then you can head to the Playlists tab (star button at the bottom of the screen) to manage your created playlists. You'll probably need to create a playlist - that can be done from the right-click menu as well. You can add songs to playlists by right clicking them from the main list. You can see what's in your current queue by clicking on the little button to the left of the search bar. The queue is just the ordered list of upcoming tracks, FIFO style. You'll want to add some tracks to a playlist or the queue. I only have two options: play same song in a forever loop, or shuffle. If you need a quick and easy music player that still has every feature you'll ever need, Audacity is still that player.Brent 1) I cannot get a song to play one right after another. Despite its age, Audacious has kept true to its music player roots, and we find ourselves using it more than we ever have. We also really like Robert Cernansky's new plugin for browsing music held on your Raspberry Pi Ampache server. This latest release works brilliantly on our high-DPI display and lets you do things like enable high bit depths on the output at lower latency or add folders available through GIO-supported protocols (such as FTP). It does this with a negligible hit on your system resources and with maximum quality. Audacious also plays back everything from MIDI to Nintendo DS chiptunes and can still play audio CDs if you've got an optical drive. The equalizer is a standard addition, for example, and the brilliant OpenGL spectrogram is the only audio visualizer we are tempted to use whilst listening to music. This package was a further 6MB on our Arch system, and through these plugins, Audacious is able to talk to PulseAudio, Alsa, SDL and even esoteric outputs like writing audio to disc and Jack.Īudacious is a philosophical descendant of the ancient XMMS, and despite using a modern UI toolkit, it feels very close. This is partly because you can choose between either a Gtk+3 version or a Qt version, not both, and you still need to install a plugin package to generate any sound. Not quite as fully cross-platform as Museeks (there's a Windows version, too), but without the dependency on bloated JavaScript libraries, its 1.8MB install size will almost fit onto a 3.5-inch floppy disk, if you can remember one of those. If Museeks, above, has piqued your interest in minimal music players, the new release of Audacious is also worth a look. Because it's built atop some JavaScript libraries, you can enable the developer mode to see the code, just as you would with a website, which adds a new dimension to most music players. This new release has added a small cover thumbnail in the playback bar, which is one concession to eye candy that we approve of, and we like the quick and easy way you can create playlists. Audio quality is great, and the player interprets gapless playback properly, which is great for live recordings. This isn't going to work if you have a large collection of music, but it's simple, uncluttered interface doesn't leave you with any distractions. There's no artist or album hierarchy, nor is the list sorted by folder groups. ![]() With music added to your library, every available track is listed within the main view. It doesn't stop you getting started either, which is as simple as adding a new source to your library and refreshing the internal database. This is a good thing, and we like the design. The user interface is minimalist and won't even use your window manager's surround unless you enable it. If the 120MB installation size of the music player Museeks doesn't put you off, especially if you like to work with the same application across different operating systems, it's definitely worth a try. But tools using these JavaScript libraries always feel so bloated, even if the applications themselves are excellent (which they often are). It's something we wish Adobe would consider, for instance. On the one hand, it's great that cross-platform applications can now include Linux with no extra work required. We're not sure how we feel about the proliferation of applications written using Node.js, Electron, and React.js. ![]()
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