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Listen: Music Player for GNOME with Lyrics, Last.fm

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 07:04 AM PST

GNOME has many audio player like Banshee,Exaile or Rhythmbox .But Listen provides a direct access to lyrics, lastfm and wikipedia informations.Listen is fastest audio player in GNOME .

Listen_default

Features of Listen :

Listen is written in Python using the GTK toolkit
It has simple and well maintained interface
Listen offers drag-and-drop support, and besides the usual sorting.
The playlist font can also be changed. One of the minuses is that the playlist cannot be sorted by full path or filename.
Last.fm song submission
support for podcasts
Internet radio
OSD (on-screen display)
Wikipedia info and lyrics fetching
upcoming concerts
cover fetching (either from the local directory or from Amazon.com)
tags lookup, tag editing
support for plugins
song queue, system tray integration, visualizations.

listen_context

The library is divided into five sections :

Music, which will show available artists and albums
Podcast, for managing and listening to podcasts
Last.fm Station, allowing you to listen to Last.fm radio
Filesystem, a file browser
Webradio, a collection of Internet radio stations

Listen_playlist

Most interesting option is the ability to set custom web service filters, which will be skipped when performing web queries. For example, you can add here information which you don’t want to be searched for, like cd 1, cd 2 etc.Listen also provides no fewer than four view modes: small, normal, full display and party mode, and the latter is practically a fullscreen mode.Listen comes with many useful default plugins ,but some regarding plugins are required:
- a 10-band equalizer
- PidginStatus, which will show the song you’re listening to as your Pidgin status message
- a visualization plugin
- Last.fm events, to retrieve upcoming concerts for a band from Last.fm
- Jamendo and Magnatune integration

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Installation in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

There is a PPA available for the latest Listen release, and to use it add the following two lines inside your /etc/apt/sources list file:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/listen-devel/ppa/ubuntu karmic main  deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/listen-devel/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

Next, add the trusted key for this PPA:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys AA832887

Update the packages list:

sudo apt-get update

And install Listen:

sudo apt-get install listen

Official website

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Posted: 29 Dec 2009 06:50 AM PST

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