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There I set the gstreamer 1.0 option to Alsa and click on Advanced Options where I can specify my AudioQuest DragonFly digital analog converter in the Alsa Device field as hw:CARD=DragonFly,DEV=0. To get my first requirement sorted, I navigate to Main | Settings | Audio. I've taken another look at it and I still like it. At the time, it had a problem shutting down properly (at least in its Unity/Ubuntu incarnation). I tried gmusicbrowser a year or so ago and quite liked it. I haven't managed to find options to see signal level and bit rate as the music plays, but the website is jam-packed with information and there are many plugins available, so maybe somewhere in there.

#Quod libet album cover how to#

The excellent online guide explains how to use the search capability to make smart playlists.

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It's not as good at cover art, and I finally gave up and reorganized all those free downloads I've picked up over the years. Quod Libet also meets the first requirement on my list, and does well at items 3 and 6. Really the first item on the list is the critical feature for me the rest all enhance the experience to a greater or lesser degree.

Guayadeque has good to great overall organization, layout, and performance.

Guayadeque shows the signal level and effective bit rate as the music plays.

In particular, a directory of free downloads/samples can maintain their cover art without having to organize them into a less-chaotic structure, even while the rest/majority of the music library can rely on finding a "cover.jpg" in the album directory.

Guayadeque's orientation to cover art seems flexible and useful.

That is, sometimes I just want to double-click on an album and have it play. I prefer playlists to be there when I want them and otherwise get out of the way.

Although Guayadeque uses playlists, it isn't as obviously playlist-centric as say Amarok or Exaile.

It has a great "smart playlist" feature, which is what you need to keep the great tunes coming while you're cooking that wonderful dinner.

Guayadeque can be configured to pass the music through unchanged to Alsa, allowing music to switch bit rate and bit depth on the fly, and making it simple to put the signal into an external digital-audio converter dedicated to music reproduction.

I've been thinking about what I like about Guayadeque, and how other open source music players stack up against this set of criteria.

Lately I have been experimenting with other players-most notably Quod Libet-but I still really like Guayadeque's feature set.

#Quod libet album cover code#

(When I asked about the status of Guayadeque on AskUbuntu, someone replied that it can now be built from source using the code on GitHub, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.) In a January blog post, the original author Juan Rios ( wrote that he is no longer able to support the code, which relies on outdated version of GStreamer 0.10. Recently I upgraded my laptop's Linux to the latest release, and I was surprised and saddened to discover that the wonderful music player Guayadeque seems to be considered as dead upstream, at least in Debian and Ubuntu.