Xnoise is a media player for Gtk+.
Unlike Rhythmbox, Banshee or itunes, Xnoise uses a tracklist centric design. The tracklist is a list of tracks that are played one by one without being removed
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(right side of window). This makes it possible to enqueue any track in any order, regardless if they are on the same album or not.
The media browser (left side of the window) contains all available music in hierarchical tree structure. It is easy to find a single track, artist or album by going through this tree or by just entering a search term. From the media browser, music or videos can be dragged into the tracklist to every position.
Xnoise uses drag'n'drop. Single/Multiple tracks, albums or artists can be dragged onto the tracklist and be reordered. Within the playing track, it's possible to jump to every position by clicking the position bar.
Xnoise can play every kind of audio/video data that gstreamer can handle.
xnoise playing a music stream
Video support is available.
Video support (screenshot of paused video on netbook)
Xnoise is always running in a single instance, so that music files that are associated with it, will always be added to the tracklist instead of starting a new instance.
The program is written in vala. This means it is compiled to pure Gobject/C and therfore very fast and lightweight compared with other Gtk music players written in mono or python.
There is a plugin interface available (In the picture you can see the example plugin is setting the track title to the window title). Currently there are two example plugins.
A sqlite database is used for storing the music collection and most of its data. Song tags are imported via taglib.
It is planned to replace taglib with gstreamer's tagbin as soon as it is available.
The license of xnoise is GNU GPL v2 or later. There is a license exeption for the distribution together with non-GPL compatible gstreamer plugins. Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/xnoise
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO JOIN THE DISCUSSION ON THE GUI, BEHAVIOR AND FUTURE FEATURES OF XNOISE !
Fullscreen video:
fullscreen video on a netbook. The control area with progressbar is automatically hidden if mouse is not moved for 3 seconds [Less]
