Music Applet is a small, simple GNOME panel applet that lets you control a variety of different music players from the panel. Music Applet provides easy access to information about the current song and the most important playback controls.
Music Applet currently supports the following music players:
Music Applet is the successor to Rhythmbox Applet.
Release notes:
Music Applet 2.5.0, running in the panel with everything enabled. Song information appears in a notification popup when the song changes, and that information scrolls inside the applet itself during playback.
Music Applet 2.5.0, plugins dialog, allowing you to choose which music players you want to use with the applet.
Hot on the heels of the previous version, Music Applet 2.5.1 has been released. This version is purely a bug-fix release and adds no new features. It does, however, fix a bug that could leave the applet in a hung state when the music player closes, and it fixes a bug in fetching album art from Rhythmbox.
Keeping my word, Music Applet 2.5.0 is now available. This release adds support for the long-awaited Amarok 2. It also fixed lots of bugs. In particular, the applet will no longer try to take over your entire panel if you play a song with a long title, and handling of metadata when playing Internet radio streams is vastly improved. There are additional bug fixes too; check the release notes for details.
Music Applet 2.4.2 is out. This is another bugfix-and-translation-updates-only release. In particular, it fixes the slow creep in CPU usage after each song and updates the Polish (pl) translation.
Music Applet 2.4.1 has been released. This is a bug-fix release, with no new features. The dependency on the deprecated python-dcop, previous used for Amarok support, has been removed. A bug in password handling for MPD has also been fixed. See the release notes for details.
The source code for Music Applet is maintained in a bzr repository. You can use bzr to get a copy of the latest developmental code by running:
$ bzr branch http://www.kuliniewicz.org/music-applet/bzr/music-applet/
The source code for pre-2.0 versions of Music Applet is in an Arch repository. A publicly available mirror can be found at:
The contents of this repository are signed with my PGP/GPG public key (ID CB9B9E81).
If you think you've found a bug, please don't hesitate to e-mail me at paul@kuliniewicz.org to let me know. If you can supply a patch to fix it, even better.
Music Applet is written by Paul Kuliniewicz <paul@kuliniewicz.org>.