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The player provides multiple views such as artists, albums, tracks, genre, years and so on, all based on cover art and it includes features such as: music collection database (SQLite 3), playlists support (including smart playlists), can play radio streams, Mp3Gain tag support for volume normalization, Last.fm scrobbler, command line and Mpris interfaces, favorites support, automatically downloads cover art and more. Also, the player includes a radio browser which supports Tunein, Dribble and with this release, Radionomy.

• new radionomy radio service (replace shoutcast)
• added radio covers for all radio views
• added symbolic link support for file system view
• added MP4 audio files tag reading
• added ape files import into playqueue
• added browsing history support for stream link in radio views
• many minor updates for the widgets/ui
• fixed "lyrics.com" provider
• fixed volume slider for phonon engine
• fixed network redirection management
• fixed now playing widget update
• various other fixes and improvements

Install Yarock in Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/failsdownloads
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install yarock

"In the five months since the release of LXQt 0.7.0, we have seen a surge of interest and several new developers have joined us. Collaboration with other desktop environments has been very promising and we are very excited to be able to pick up new KDE Frameworks libraries to replace custom, duplicated and often sub-par functionality".

- LXQt 0.8.0 release announcement

• new component: lxqt-admin. This brings an optional set of basic admin tools such as configuration for date & time as well as users and groups;
• two new themes: Plasma Next (based on KDE Plasma Next theme) and Dark Alpha;
• improved multi-monitor support;
• lxqt-config-randr been replaced by lxqt-config-monitor;
• support for RGBA transparency if compositing is available;
• lxqt-powermanagement: Improved compatibility with systemd/logind;
• Compton integration (if available, disabled by default);
• added support for setting a default UI font;
• lots of performances improvements and bug fixes.

LXQt admin configuration tools for date & time / users & groups

LXQt Monitor confg tool

LXQt Monitor confg tool

Testing LXQt

Audacious 3.6 alpha 1 - GTK2 interface

Audacious 3.6 alpha 1 - Qt interface

• support double-size scaling of Winamp skins;
• it's now possible to search by genre in the search tool plugin;
• the playlist manager can be docked in the GTK+ interface;
• crossfading on seek and manual song change;
• support for “album artist” in song tags;
• search results are filtered by number of songs in the search tool plugin;
• cue files are now automatically added to playlists and to the library;
• adjustable HTTP buffer size;
• optional calculation of a more accurate song length estimate for MP3 files
• optional skipping of leading and trailing silence in MIDI files;
• restored settings dialog for the SID plugin;
• Audacious can now be built as a headless music player “daemon” with no GTK+ dependency (some plugins still require GTK+ though);
• by default, playback now resumes in a paused state upon startup;
• window positions of visualization plugins and of the search tool are now saved and restored at startup when the Winamp Classic interface is used;
• there is a new effect plugin to remove leading and trailing silence in any song file;
• new controls have been added to the song information dialog to allow tagging entire albums without retyping the artist and album name for each song;
• a new option has been added to probe content of files with no recognized filename extension. With this option enabled, files with no extension can be added to playlists and to the library automatically, and subtunes in those files will also be recognized. The extra probing does slow Audacious down, so enable the option only if needed;
• support for the SID song lengths database has been restored;
• the ALSA output plugin now checks for new devices when the settings dialog is opened, so it’s no longer necessary to restart Audacious after plugging in a USB audio device;
• the JACK and sndio output plugins have been rewritten from scratch in order to fix a number of problems;
• more.

Test Audacious 3.6 alpha 1 in Ubuntu 14.04 or 14.10

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:failsdownloadsteam/unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install audacious

audacious --qt

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:failsdownloadsteam/unstable