Music playing time with Listen

Clair Ching — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:21:33 +0000

If you love music then you’re probably looking for the music player of your choice. You could choose among several types of music players out there. In my case, as long as it doesn’t hang, as long as it shows me all the important information I need as well as store playlists well, then everything’s alright.

Lately I’ve been listening to music on my netbook using Listen. It’s like iTunes, Amarok and Exaile and Rhythmbox in a way because the interface is like that.

Screenshot of Listen (image credit: Clair Ching, 2009)

Something simple, not too cluttered with information.

Aside from that, my Rhythmbox install keeps hanging until I have to restart. It totally sucks when that happens. So far, I haven’t had similar issues with Listen. That’s why I think you ought to give it a try because it might actually work for you.

Here’s a quick list of Listen’s features:
* Partial DAAP support
* Listen Last.fm Station
* Record any stream played in listen
* A Equalizer 10 Bands
* Icecast Agent (to use with a icecast server)
* Visulisazer (all gstreamer visualizer plugin are supported)
* Jamendo Music Store browser
* Crossfade playback engine
* A plugin system to easy write new feature
* Some other (gajim plugin, avant-window-navigator plugin, new lyrics backend)

So far, things are looking great for Listen and it really had a release candidate you could check out by downloading and installing it on your computer.

It looks like a promising project so I’d keep using it, I think. So far it seems better than Bluemindo.

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Music playing time with Listen