Rhythmbox

Rhythmbox is an audio player (software) intended to play and organize digital music. It was originally inspired by Apple Computer s iTunes. It is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop, and uses either the GStreamer or Xine media framework. It is currently under active development.

=Features=

Rhythmbox offers a growing number of features, including:

==Music playback==

Playback from a variety of digital music sources is supported. The most common playback is music stored locally as files on the computer (the Library ). Rhythmbox supports playing streamed Internet radio as well. The Replay Gain standard is supported.

Searching and sorting of music in the library is supported. Playlists may be created to group and order music. Users may also create smart playlists, ones that are automatically updated (like a database query) based on a customized rule of selection criteria rather than an arbitrary list of tracks. Music may be played back in shuffle (random) mode or repeat mode.

Track ratings are supported and used by the shuffle mode algorithm to play higher-rated tracks more often. Optional automatic track rating is supported.

==Music importing==

Audio CD ripping (requires the optional Sound Juicer package)

Comprehensive audio format support through Gstreamer or Xine

iPod support (experimental)

==Audio CD burning==

The 0.9 release includes the ability to create audio CDs from playlists.

==Integration==

Rhythmbox has been extensively integrated with a number of external programs, services and devices including:

Nautilus file manager context-menu integration (off by default in version 0.8.8).

XChat, via an XChat plugin

Gaim-Rhythmbox automatically updates the Gaim user profile with details of the currently playing track

Rhythmbox Applet, a GNOME panel applet that provides Rhythmbox playback controls from within the panel

Shuffle, a gDesklets providing an interface for Rhythmbox resembling an iPod Shuffle

Rhythmlet, another gDesklet that retrieves album art locally or from Amazon.com, has configurable display strings, playback controls, editable ratings and a seek bar

SideCandyRhythmbox, a gDesklet-based Rhythmbox control and SideCandy display

Rhythmbox XSLT allows the music library to be viewed as a web page

Drivel inserts the name of the track Rhythmbox is currently playing into a LiveJournal blog entry

Rhythmbox Tune Publisher publishes the currently playing Rhythmbox track to Jabber via the User Tune protocol (used by the Jabber World Map)

Blue Remote allows Rhythmbox to be operated from a Bluetooth-enabled phone

FoxyTunes, a Mozilla Firefox extension that provides Rhythmbox playback controls from within the web browser

=See also=

*List of audio players (software) *Comparison of media players

=External links=

*[http://www.rhythmbox.org/ Rhythmbox.org]