Sonata

Sonata is a slick GTK+ GUI controller for the Music Player Daemon audio player.

Why you want it

Music Player Daemon is a nice daemon which runs in the background locally on a remote server and plays music. Various GUI's (and console apps) for controlling it exist. Sonata is by far the slickest one available.

History

Sonata is based on the now unmaintained Pygmy MPD GUI by Andrew Conkling and Matthew G. Sonata developer Scott Horowitz story is that Sonata was forked from Pygmy "in order to fix bugs, introduce new features, and proceed down a different path".

Features

Sonata has all the features common to MPD GUI's. It's also got who features which makes it stand out:

- Automatic remote or local album art - Automatic fetching of lyrics

But more importantly, it looks way sliker than other MPD GUIs.

Music Player Daemon

Cli

• Music Player Command

Graphical clients

Sonata	GNOME	8
KMP	KDE	5
Gnome Music Player Client	GNOME	5
Glurp	GTK+-2.x	1

Multimedia

HOWTO	Players	Rippers and Converters
Howto work with audio and video formats using command-line tools.Audio formats HOWTO Convert audio files HOWTO Dump audio streams from the Internet HOWTO Dump audio streams from a video file Video formats HOWTO Convert video files HOWTO Make a video DVD HOWTO Make a video (S)VCD HOWTO Dump video streams from the Internet	Xine Totem MPlayer GMPlayer KMPlayer Audio (only) players: Music Player Daemon	Video DVD rippers Dvd::rip - DVD ripper and encoder Avidemux2 Video downloaders youtube-dl (Fetches Youtube.com videos) Audio CD rippers KAudioCreator Ogg Theora encoders: Ffmpeg2theora