Goggles Music Manager is a music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes your music files based on genre, artist, album, and song. It supports gapless playback and features easy tag editing.

Features

• Fast and light weight. Quick startup, no splash screen needed!
• Supports Ogg Vorbis , FLAC, MP3 , MP4 , ASF and Musepack music files.
• Support for AlbumArt embedded in tag or as separate file on disk.
• Tag editing and file renaming capability (batch). One or more tracks may be edited at the same time.
• Smart sorting with user configurable leading word filter to prevent sorting on common words like the, a or an.
• Support for play lists. Play lists may be played in a certain configurable order, or browsed through like the main music library.
• Import/Export music library and play lists to XSPF,PLS,Extended M3U,M3U and CSV.
• Clipboard & DND (drag-and-drop) support to arrange playlists and dragging to and from gnome / kde applications.
• Uses xine multimedia library for gapless playback and buildin equalizer.
• Clean and fast database backend using SQLite 3.
• Written using FOX, one of the fastest GUI toolkits available.
• Configurable user interface written using FOX, one of the fastest toolkits available. Support for FOX-1.6.x and the latest development version FOX-1.7.x. Full screen mode available with FOX-1.7.11 and later.
• last.fm and libre.fm audio scrobbler support.
• Replay Gain support (Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and mp3 with APE tags).
• Translated in Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

Articles and Reviews

"Keeping it simple is probably GMM's biggest selling point" - Andy Hudson in Linux Format Issue 123, October 2009

Scratching that itch: Sander Jansen - Joe Barr on Linux.com / Newsforge- June 2006

"Goggles is my candidate for a lightweight music player" - Bruce Byfield on Linux Magazine Blog

Reporting Bugs

If you have found bug or would like to request a new feature, please file a new issue. You'll need a google account to do this. If you don't have a google account, please see the Contact page.

Contact

It has been pointed out to me, that it was hard to find contact information on this site. Please see the new Contact page for details!

Last FM

We now also have a Last FM user group for users of Goggles Music Manager. It has at least one member at the moment (me) 10 17 quite a few members already, but will hopefully have more people in the future.

http://www.last.fm/group/Goggles+Music+Manager

Getting Goggles Music Manager

The Official Source is available on this website. I don't provide any pre-compiled binaries at this time.

The following distributions provide packages for gogglesmm:

• Arch Linux and Arch Linux ARM
• Debian (Unstable)
• Puppeee Linux
• SliTaz
• FreeBSD port
• PLD Linux
• PCLinuxOS
• Frugalware Linux

• Ubuntu Package provided by http://www.getdeb.net.
• Debian (Stable)
• openSUSE by packman.links2linux.de
• Mandriva RPM provided by www.mandrivauser.de
• Gentoo build available in the Sunrise Overlay
• Slackware provided by slackbuilds.org
• Cygwin Ports package

Please see the Install page for details.

For the following distributions package requests have been filed.

• Ubuntu

Volunteers needed to write packaging scripts for Debian/Ubuntu, Red Hat/Fedora etc. Please contact me if you need any help.

Screenshot

For a complete screenshot tour please visit the gallery.