aTunes

[Psychotoxic]

Auf der Suche nach dem (für mich) perfekten Audioplayer bin ich letztlich auf aTunes gestoßen. Der Player ist für mich ebenbürtig zu amarok für Linux.

http://www.atunes.org/

Player

* Supported formats: mp3, ogg, wma, wav, flac, mp4, ra, rm
* Online radio supported
* Player engine: mplayer for all environments, xine for Linux systems
* Volume control, mute function
* Karaoke function
* Equalizer
* Shuffle and repeat options
* OSD (On-screen display)

Tags

* Reads mp3, ogg, flac, wma, mp4, ra, rm tags
* Writes mp3, ogg, flac, wma (limited), mp4 tags
* Reads and shows pictures included in ID3v2 tags
* Tag editor window
* Auto tag edition tools: set track number, genre, lyrics and so on automatically
* Some auto tag tools for all repository
* Extended search function

Navigator

* Allows users to view music categorized by artist, album or genre in a hierarchy tree, or by folders
* Fast access to songs and albums
* Filter option to find easily artists, albums or genres
* Cover Navigator

Playlist

* Support for huge playlist, with thousand of songs
* Support for multiple playlists at the same time
* Shows multiple columns: title, artist, album, genre, length, track number”¦
* Can be sorted by any of the columns
* Columns can be hidden for simplicity
* Support for open or save m3u playlists
* Full Drag-and-Drop support. Songs can be dragged from the navigator or from the OS file system
* Can be filtered

Device view

* Connect your portable player or anything that could be mounted as a file system, and view in aTunes, copy to repository, synchronize, etc.

Favorites

* Songs, albums or artists can be selected as favorites
* Favorite elements are shown in the “Favorites” tab in Navigator

Internet

* Artist search tool in different web pages: YouTube, Google Video , Wikipedia, etc.
* AudioScrobbler information: when a song is being played, album information, artist albums and similar artists are shown
* Last.fm profile update: songs played are submitted to your Last.fm profile
* Lyrics information: when a song is being played, automatically aTunes shows lyric

Podcasts

* Subscribe your favorite podcast feeds and listen them in aTunes
* Download podcast feed entries to your hard disk

Audio CD

* aTunes includes a cd ripper tool, using cdda2wav, lame, flac and oggenc. Just put an audio cd on your computer, and select “Import CD” in the “Tools” menu. You can select which tracks rip, and get track names and cover automatically from Amazon.
* Support for optional Nero AAC encoder. See Adding the Nero AAC encoder
* Support for CDParanoia on Mac OS X and Linux (limited functionality)

Statistics

* Songs played, songs never played
* Songs most played
* Album most played
* Artist most played
* Last date of play

GUI

* Standard view with all controls and features
* Multi window view. Every window element (navigator, playlist, context information) is shown as a separate window. Every window can be located and / or arranged as you want.
* System tray icon to control player
* Themes support: you can change aTunes colors by changing theme
* Full Screen Mode