Yarock, a Qt4 Modern Music Player, has just reached 1.0 release, which brings new clean and elegant design, adds artists images, album cover support, and fixes a few bugs.
Yarock is a music player in c++/Qt designed to provide a clean, simple and beautiful music collection based on album cover art. It features:
- Music collection database (SQLite 3)
- Browse your local music collection based on cover art
- Easy search and filter music collection
- Manage favorites item (album, artist)
- Play music directly from collection or playqueue
- Simple Playqueue
- Smart playlist generator
- Support mp3,Ogg Vorbis,flac music files (depending on phonon backend)
- Support load/save playlist file (m3u, pls, xspf)
- Play radio stream (tunin, shoutcast, dirble, …)
- Mp3Gain tag support for volume normalization
- Cover art download
- Last Fm scrobbler
- Command line interface, Mpris interface
- Clean and simple user interface
- No GNOME or KDE dependancies
The 1.0 release was announced a few hours ago with below changes:
- new clean and elegant design, new icon set, new app icon
- add support for artists images (new view, download artists images)
- save rating to file
- add advanced library search
- add album cover for playqueue widget
- add stars rating for playqueue widget
- add multiple tracks edition
- rewrite now playing widget
- improve browser view multiple selection with SHIFT key
- improve artist/album/track tags edition
- support more scalable ui items
- file dialog various improvements
- improve file system view performance
- fix “open with” yarock from KDE menu
- fix playqueue restoration at startup
- fix translation installation path
- fix rating mp3 tag reading
- minor fix for genre sorting view
How to Install Yarock 1.0 in Ubuntu:
For Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Yarock 1.0 is available in a launchpad PPA repository.
Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the commands below one by one:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install yarock
For those who don’t want to add the PPA, grab the installer directly from the Launchpad Page. Depends on your OS type, select download & install i386 (32-bit) or amd64 (64-bit) deb.
