Sonata 0.9 review

Sonata is a lightweight GTK+ music client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD)

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Scott Horowitz

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Sonata is a lightweight GTK+ music client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD). Sonata aims to be efficient (no toolbar, main menu, or statusbar), user-friendly, and clean.

Sonata is licensed by the GPL and is free software. It has been forked from the Pygmy project in order to fix bugs, introduce new features, and proceed down a different path.

Here are some key features of "Sonata":
Expanded and collapsed views
Automatic album art retrieval (with alternatives)
Playlist and Library tabs
System tray icon with tooltip
Keyboard friendly
Repeat, shuffle, volume control, etc.

Requirements:
GTK+ version 2.6.x
PyGTK 2.6.x
Presumably you also want MPD installed.
Gnome-python-extras is an optional dependency if you want a system tray icon.

What's New in This Release:
Added stream support
Use local artwork (cover.jpg, folder.jpg) first, if it exists (requires music_directory to be specified in preferences)
Allow crossfading (mixing) between songs
Fetch higher-resolution cover art
Allow specifying search terms for remote album art
Improved song info viewer
Make remote images window non-blocking
Popup song notification on un-pause
Pick up tooltip album background color from gtk theme
Store cover art in ~/.covers for consistency with gmpc
Add German translation (Paul Johnson)
Bug: Prevent infrequent crash when fetching album art
Bug: Intermittent interface freezes due to threading
Bug: Unable to delete playlists with ampersand, etc.
Bug: Player can become the wrong height on expand
Bug: Ensure local art is correctly applied on song changes
Bug: Searching library doesn't work for non-english locale