Guayadeque 0.2.9 Supports iPod, USB Mass Storage Devices, Wavpack, Trueaudio, Integrates With The Ubuntu Sound Menu

Guayadeque is starting to become a mature, reliable music player - the latest version 0.2.9, released today brings some very important features to Guayadeque like Ubuntu sound menu support, iPod support with covers and playlist, usb mass storage devices support, support for trueaudio files and wavpack, option to embed album cover to all album tracks, output audio device configuration option in preferences, Magnature and Jamendo support.

Other new features in Guayadeque 0.2.9 include:

• posibility to add more lyrics sources or edit existing ones
• stop after current track using shift + click on stop button
• more options for Copy To patterns
• Album Artist to Music Brainz tagger feature
• support for wma files extended attributes
• the option to disable replay gain in preferences
• option to not follow symbolic lyncs while doing the scanning
• network buffer size option in Preferences

Now if only the user interface woud integrate better with Gnome, especially the buttons which I personally do not like. But since Guayadeque is one of the most actively developed Linux music players, I'm sure these will change in the future.

Install Guayadeque 0.2.9 in Ubuntu

Add the Guayadeque PPA and install the latest 0.2.9 using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:anonbeat/guayadeque
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install guayadeque

If you like bleeding edge software, you can also install the latest Guayadeque from SVN - currently it's the same as 0.2.9, but it will get features much quicker (but it's also potentially unstable). If you want to install it, add the same PPA as above but don't install the "guayadeque" package and instead, install the following:

sudo apt-get install guayadeque-svn

In my test, Guayadeque didn't have a menubar but I've fixed it by changing the GTK theme so if you have this issue, do the same. Please note that basically it doesn't matter what theme you're using, just make sure to change the GTK theme after you start Guayadeque if you're experiencing this issue too. I'm not sure what's causing this bug (it could be due to some experimental packages I'm using or maybe a bug in Guayadeque, I'm really not sure).

For direct .deb downloads and source files, see the Guayadeque Sourceforge page.

Guayadeque 0.2.7 Released With File Browser, Record From Streams, Last.fm Improvements And Many More New Features

Guayadeque is a relatively new music player for Linux. It comes with a huge amount of features yet its pretty light, even with a huge music collection.

There was no new Guayadeque version in a long time but the development was actually very active and today we finally have a new version. Here are the highlights of Guayadeque 0.2.7:

• libre.fm support
• implemented crossfading between tracks
• record from streams
• a file browser (play files by browsing them on your HDD)
• option to delete files from library and hard drive
• lyricsplugin.com as lyrics search engine
• you can now save the lyrics in a local folder
• the last.fm panel can now search for tracks in your library
• implemented reading/writing images into m4a files
• library search covers scan now into audio files too
• live search
• and a lot more features and fixes

A full list of new features / tweaks can be found HERE.

Besides the new features, Guayadeque 0.2.7 also comes with speed and memory usage improvements.

In the above screenshot you can spot my favourite new feature in Guayadeque 0.2.7: when playing a track and then going to the Last.fm pane, you get the usual info on the artist and the top albums/tracks. In Guayadeque 0.2.7 you can right click these and play/enqueue them.

Install Guayadeque music player in Ubuntu

Guayadeque is available in the official Ubuntu 10.10 repositories so Maverick users should wait for an update or manually install the .debs (see below).

The Guayadeque 0.2.7 packages have been uploaded to the Guayadeque PPA, but are not ready yet. Until they are ready you can manually download and install Ubuntu .deb files from Sourceforge.

Once the packages in the PPA are ready, you'll be able to install Guayadeque 0.2.7 using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:anonbeat/guayadeque
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install guayadeque

In the same PPA, there are also SVN builds of Guayadeque which you can install to run a bleeding edge version of Guayadeque (which is currently similar to 0.2.7 but will get new features sooner - but it's unstable). To install this package, you need to remove guayadeque first and install guayadeque-svn (firstly make sure you have added the PPA using the commands above):

sudo apt-get remove guayadeque
sudo apt-get install guayadeque-svn

Thanks to LinuxFreedomForLive for the news.

Guayadeque Music Player Accepted In Debian, Will Be Available In Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Repositories

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