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guayadeque music player

Guayadeque, an amazing music player for Linux has just been accepted into Debian which means it will be available in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat official repositories. Finally!


In case you're not familiar with Guayadeque music player, here is a quick features info:
  • Supports mp3, ogg, flac, wma, aac, etc
  • Label support. You can add as many labels as you want to any artist, album or track
  • Cover fetching from google, amazon, last.fm
  • Tag editor with Musicbrainz support
  • Gapless play support
  • Replaygain support
  • Automatic Lyrics fetch and save to tracks
  • Shoutcast or User defined radios support
  • Podcasts support with automatic download with filters
  • Dynamic/Static playlists
  • Show Last.fm information
  • Smart play mode that suggest music based on the actual track
  • Customizable layout
  • VU Meters
  • Crossfading
  • a lot more!


You can of course already install Guayadeque in both Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx using a PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:anonbeat/guayadeque && sudo apt-get update


There are 2 Guayadeque versions in the PPA:

-stable:
sudo apt-get install guayadeque


-latest SVN version:
sudo apt-get install guayadeque-svn