Mon, 20/02/2012 - 11:55 | 
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VLC 2.0 "Twoflower" has been released with faster decoding, support for more video formats, a reworked web interface, experimental BluRay Discs support (without menus) and more.
Fri, 27/01/2012 - 14:53 | webupd8.org
beets is a cross-platform command line music tagger and organizer which you can use to "get your music collection right once and for all".
It can improve your music collection metadata by using MusicBrainz, download cover art for all your albums, reorganize your music files, fix filenames and more.
Further more, beets is extensible through plugins which add extra functionality like embedding or extracting album art from files, fetch lyrics for all your songs, clean up tags and and there's even a HTML5 web player (though it's very basic and can't do too much for now).
Mon, 23/01/2012 - 20:25 | webupd8.org
Puddletag is an audio tag editor for Linux, very similar to the popular Windows application Mp3tag.
The MusicBrainz and Discogs music tag sources stopped working in the latest stable Puddletag version for quite some time because of API changes but today, a new Puddletag version has been released (1.0 beta), finally bringing support for the latest MusicBrainz and Discogs APIs.
Puddletag 1.0 beta also comes with full support for Mp3tag tag sources (in my test though, I couldn't get any Mp3tag tag sources to work for some reason - bug reported), mass tagging improvements and other changes.
Sat, 24/12/2011 - 01:58 | webupd8.org
Amarok 2.5 has been recently released and is now available in the Kubuntu Backports PPA for Kubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot users.
Amarok 2.5 comes with a many improvements like re-written USB Mass Storage support, GPodder.net podcast synchronization, many iPod plugin fixes as well as an integrated Amazon MP3 store.
- Auto-save the playlist so that it is not lost if Amarok crashes
- Last.fm neighbour / friend avatars are now loaded on demand
- Ability to disable or enable browser widget backgrounds
- Tracks can now be dropped in Saved Playlists' empty area to create a new playlist
- Ability to make TagGuesser presets
- Total rewrite of Automated Playlist Generator algorithm
- Improved the playlist synchronisation feature
- iPhone 3G (and perhaps later models) should be correctly recognized by Amarok now
- Fixed various crashes for Wikipedia applet, MusicBrainz search, Qt 4.8
Sat, 24/12/2011 - 00:11 | webupd8.org
Nuvola Player (previously Google Music Frame) is a music player especially designed for cloud music. Even though it's only a "frame", it's a great application that comes with features such as Ubuntu Sound Menu (mpris2 - also works with some GNOME Shell extensions) support, notifications, multimedia keys, Unity quicklists and many extra features thanks to user scripts (like last.fm scrobbling for Google Music, etc.).
Nuvola Player got Grooveshark, Hype Machine and 8tracks support recently (in addition to Google Music) and we've talked about this already, but if you like using stable releases, you'll be glad to know that Nuvola Player 1.0 has finally been released.
Other changes in Nuvola Player 1.0:
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Tags: cloud, Google Music, google music frame, GrooveShark, Linux, music, nuvola, ubuntu
Wed, 14/12/2011 - 12:49 | webupd8.org
Spotify is a music streaming service that comes with a client which supports Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux as well as mobile devices such as iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone, S60 (Symbian), webOS and more. The service is only available in a few countries for now, such as USA, UK, Spain, Sweden and more - check out the Spotify website for more info.
The (official) native Spotify Linux client got support for free accounts recently. Here is how to install it on Ubuntu and fix some bugs such as not being able to play local music in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.
Please note that Spotify for Linux is a preview release and is currently unsupported so you may encounter issues!
Install the native Linux Spotify client under Ubuntu
1. Add the Spotify repository (will be used to install Spotify and stay up to date with the latest Spotify versions).
Launch Software Sources using the following command:
Mon, 12/12/2011 - 13:56 | webupd8.org
Radio Tray is a minimalistic radio player for Linux that runs in the systray (can also use an AppIndicator for Ubuntu). The application is very lightweight and straightforward to use and comes with notifications support, multimedia keys and a sleep timer.
A new RadioTray version was recently released with plugins support so if you're a Python developer, you can now easily create new RadioTray plugins (my only wish is a last.fm scrobbling plugin).
The new version also comes with read-only bookmark support, improved user interaction in bookmarks configuration dialog, moved various features to plugins (sleep timer, notifications, media shortcuts), a new history plugin and bug fixes.
Download Radio Tray (.deb and source files available)
Fri, 02/12/2011 - 16:14 | webupd8.org
Split Lossless is a Nautilus script created by WebUpd8 reader CokiDVD to split single lossless audio files (ape, flac, wavpack) by .cue file into flac or mp3 (320kbps or 192kbps). Further more, the script also adds tags to the new files so all the resulting flac or mp3 files will have the artist, album, title and genre tags set up automatically.
The latest Split Lossless version (released a couple of days ago) comes with two new features: track name editor and album information editor and improvements such as: show selected tracks on main window.
Split Lossless is available in a PPA so to install it in Ubuntu, use the commands below:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cokicd/split-lossless
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install split-lossless
Google Music Frame used to be an application that integrates Google Music in Ubuntu, providing sound menu support, notifications, multimedia keys and even last.fm scrobbling.
But the application has evolved and the latest development builds work with Grooveshark too. Because it now supports two music services (more cloud music services might be added in the future), Google Music Frame has been renamed to "Nuvola".
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Tue, 15/11/2011 - 00:18 | webupd8.org
The latest Clementine music player available in the Clementine Development PPA got some very interesting new features: you can now listen to Grooveshark or Spotify songs through Clementine. For this, you need a Spotify Premium / Grooveshark Anywhere account though.
I've only tested the Grooveshark plugin (because I don't have a Spotify Premium account) and I can tell you it works pretty well already. Also, most of the Grooveshark features can be accessed from Clementine: you can add a song to your favourites, create new playlists, add songs to a Grooveshark playlist or get a song share url. What's not yet available is listening to a Grooveshark radio station.
