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.
- 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.
- Written using FOX, one of the fastest GUI toolkits available. Support for FOX-1.6.x and the latest development version FOX-1.7.x.
- Customizable icons. Either use buildin icons or use an existing gnome/kde icon theme.
- Configurable user interface from minimalistic to detailed view. Full screen mode available with FOX-1.7.11.
- Clean and fast database backend using SQLite 3.
- Last-FM audio scrobbler support.
- Replay Gain support (Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and mp3 with APE tags).
- Equalizer
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
Articles and Reviews
Scratching that itch: Sander Jansen - Joe Barr on Linux.com / Newsforge- June 2006
Getting Goggles Music Manager
Goggles Music Manager is currently available as:
- Arch Linux package
- Cygwin Ports package
- Debian package
- FreeBSD port
- Mandriva RPM provided by www.mandrivauser.de
- OpenSUSE package
- SlackBuild Script
- SliTaz package
- source
Please see the Install page for details.
For the following distributions package requests have been filed.
Volunteers needed to write packaging scripts for Gentoo, Debian/Ubuntu, Red Hat/Fedora etc. Please contact me if you need any help.
Screenshot
For a complete screenshot tour please visit the gallery.
License
Goggles Music Manager Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Sander Jansen
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses.
