| Developer(s) | GNOME Team |
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| Initial release | August 18, 2001 |
| Stable release | 0.13.3 / January 16, 2011 |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux, Solaris, BSD and other Unix-like |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Type | Audio player |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/ |
Rhythmbox is an audio player that plays and helps organize digital music. Originally inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. However, Rhythmbox functions on desktop environments other than GNOME.
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Rhythmbox offers a growing number of features, including:
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 and podcasts as well. The ReplayGain standard is supported by using GConf-editor.
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.
Enabling the crossfading backend option with a duration of 0.0 switches Rhythmbox into gapless playback mode for music formats that support it. Gapless playback is not enabled by default.
Since the 0.9 release, Rhythmbox can create audio CDs from playlists.
Since the 0.9.5 release, Rhythmbox can display cover art of the currently playing album. The plugin can search the internet to find corresponding artwork, and as of 0.12.6, can read artwork from ID3 tags. If an image file is saved in the same directory as the audio track this is used instead.[1]
Since the 0.9.5 release, Rhythmbox can provide song lyrics of the currently playing song with pressing ctrl-L. (as long as they are stored in a lyrics database).
Since the 0.9.6 release, Rhythmbox can submit played songs info to your Last.fm account (known as "scrobbling"). Since release 0.9.7 it can also play Last.fm's radio streams.
Since the 0.9.6 release, Rhythmbox can browse and play all the Jamendo free (as in freedom) music library.
Version 0.10.0 supports DAAP sharing.
Rhythmbox has been extensively integrated with a number of external programs, services and devices including:
Rhythmbox uses the Linux Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) and Udev to detect player devices.
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