Loudhailer 0.8.1 review

A small and simple music player for the GNOME desktop Loudhailer is an XMMS-like music player meant to integrate nicely in the GN

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Christian Rudh

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A small and simple music player for the GNOME desktop

Loudhailer is an XMMS-like music player meant to integrate nicely in the GNOME desktop.
Its main interface is a playlist that is populated by drag and drop from your file manager, so it is not intended to be a library based player like Rhythmbox or Muine.

Loudhailer is written in C# and GTK# (runs with Mono) and uses GStreamer (part of GNOME) as a back-end for playing music.

The interaction with GStreamer is done via GST#, a C# wrapper library. The GST# dll is included in the distribution files since it is not widely available yet (current svn of GST# does not work with Loudhailer)

Loudhailer is licensed under the GPL (GNU General Public License).

Here are some key features of "Loudhailer":
Plays several different audio types, like ogg, mp3, flac, wav, aac and wma
Small and clean interface
Drag and drop song support
Seek support and searching of songs
Optional tray icon
GConf support
Repeat and shuffle mode
Reads song title and artist metadata if available
Manages and stores the playlist on disk

Requirements:
GNOME
a recent GStreamer
gst-plugins 0.8
Mono 1.1.X
GTK# 2.5.X

What's New in This Release:
Some new minor features, UI changes and several bugs fixed.