Comments on: Split decision: Goggles Music Manager

By: crayon_shinchan

crayon_shinchan — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:34:46 +0000

hi, I’ve just switch to linux and googled for ‘linux player review 2009′ then ‘Consonance Gejengel’ so I got here.

My fav player in windoze is Jaangle (jaangle.com), fast, written in C++, and has my prefs:

Auto-lyrics
Auto-Artist/Album Art/Pictures
Auto-Artist/Album Biography/Review
Last.fm
Auto-continue playlist (intelligently queue up songs)
Auto-play last track and time on startup
Fast with my WD 500GB external
*All of the above is out-of-the-box (no plugin setups!)
// but jaangle doesn’t have Tag-editing

Last time I used linux, I used gmusicbrowser but didn’t liked aspects of it, I hope these new players in linux will be great!

btw, I switched to linux again bec of this virus doesn’t allow Avira AntiVir installation (it closes it while installing!) haha

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:29:57 +0000

I’m gonna give this a go. I’ve been looking for an open-source foobar2000 alternative for ages.

By: MisterE

MisterE — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:14:38 +0000

if you like light software i can recommend Music Player Daemon (MPD)

By: gogglesguy

gogglesguy — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:51:55 +0000

Thanks for your review. The next version will have a updated look: http://www.fifthplanet.net/2009/07/goggles-music-manager-upcoming-features.html

By: Esteban

Esteban — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:46:52 +0000

I am dyslexic. I read this whole page as Google Music Manager until I got to the comment about google.

That is the reason I came to this page. I thought Google has a music manager?

By: GregE

GregE — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:37:53 +0000

@Todd Amarok does not work the way you suggest. You can double click on an album and it loads a playlist of the album. It does not get any simpler. Plus you can double click on any track or whole album and add it to the current playlist without wiping the other entries or stopping the playback. Amarok is not lightweight, it has things like lyrics display. Lightweight versions are Minirok and Decibel.

The pane behaviour is annoying. Rhythmbox, Banshee, Songbird and others do work that way and I hate it.

Amarok, Exaile, Minirok, Decibel and others work through a playlist metaphor that can play whole albums just as easily. My preference.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:30:38 +0000

By: fuxter

fuxter — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:11:34 +0000

hope you add these to your software list. i got a short mem and your blog is very useful place to relate to when needed.

By: fuxter

fuxter — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:08:48 +0000

ditto

By: johnraff

johnraff — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:49:25 +0000

not just you