Quod Libet (software)
Quod Libet is a cross-platform free and open source music player, tag editor and library organizer. The main design philosophy is that the user knows how they want to organize their music best and is built to be fully customizable and extensible using regular expressions. Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player that is written in Python, and uses the Mutagen tagging library. Using the same tools underlying Ex Falso the user can edit any of the tags or metadata in the file.
Quod Libet is also very scalable, able to handle libraries with over 10,000 songs with ease. It contains a full feature set that one would expect from any modern media player, such as multimedia keys, simple tag editing, the ability to rename and organize the music files themselves (rather than simply an internal database of songs), AudioScrobbler to sites such as Last.fm or Libre.fm, and full Unicode support
Quod Libet is available on a full range of GNU/Linux distributions and has been used on, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Windows as well, requiring only GTK+ 2, Python, and an OSS or ALSA compatible audio device.
Features
- Audio Playback
- Can deal with various audio back-ends via the plug-in architecture of GStreamer
- Supports Replay Gain with smart selection based on either single track or full album, based on current view and play order
- 'Real' shuffle mode- entire playlist played before repeating
- Ratings weighted random playback setting
- Play queue
- Feature complete tag editing
- Complete Unicode support
- Changes to multiple files at once, even if files are in different formats
- Ability to tag files based on filenames with fully configurable formats
- Customizable renaming of files based on their tags
- Human readable tag references, e.g.
<artist> or <title> rather than %a or %t, with support for "if null" logic
- Fast track renumbering
- Audio Library
- Can save play counts and song ratings
- Can download and save lyrics
- Fast refreshing of entire library based on changed files
- Internet Radio / SHOUTcast support
- Audio Feeds / Podcast support
- User Interface
- Configurable interface to suit user preferences
- Drag-n-drop support throughout interface.
- Tray icon with full player control
- Automatically recognize and display tags from many uncommon tags
- Multiple ways to browse library:
- Progressive search - either basic or fully customizable regular expression-based
- Queries support boolean logic and numerical expressions.
- Playlists with integration throughout the player.
- Paned browser, using any fully customizable tags (eg genre, date, album artist...)
- View by album list with cover art
- View by file-system directory, which includes songs not in your library
- File Formats include: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack, MOD/XM/IT, WMA, Wavpack, MPEG-4 AAC
- UNIX-like control and query mechanisms
- Status information available from the command line[4]
- Control of player using named pipe (FIFO) is possible[5]
- Text-based files available with current song information.
Plugins
Extensive list of Python-based plugins that include[6]
- Automatic tagging via MusicBrainz and CDDB
- Download and preview album art from a variety of online sources
- On-screen display pop-ups
- Last.fm/AudioScrobbler submission
- Tag character encoding conversion
- Intelligent title-casing of tags
- Scan and save Replay Gain values across multiple albums at once (using GStreamer)
- D-Bus-based Multimedia Shortcut Keys
- Export playlists to common formats
See also
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