Music Applet 0.9.2 review

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Paul Kuliniewicz

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Music Applet is a small, simple GNOME panel applet that lets you control Rhythmbox's playback from a panel.

Advantages that this applet has over using the icon Rhythmbox puts in the notification area include:

One-click access to the main operations needed during playback, without needing to use a context menu.
Display of the current playing time without requiring a mouse-over.
Display of the current song's album in the song information.

Music Applet currently supports the following music players:

Banshee
Rhythmbox


Music Applet is the successor to Rhythmbox Applet.

Requirements:
Rhythmbox
GNOME

What's New in This Release:
Added support for Muine.
Added support for launching a music player if one isn't already running.
Improved responsiveness by using nonblocking communications whenever possible.
Properly display times longer than one hour.
Added Dutch (nl) translation, contributed by Adriaan Peeters.
Added Swedish (sv) translation, contributed by Daniel Nylander.
Various other bug fixes and interface clean-ups.