Cantata

Cantata is a (yet another!) client for the music player daemon (MPD). Originally started as a fork of QtMPC, the code is now *very* different. Cantata can be compiled with KDE support, or as a pure Qt4 application. The interface is very configurable - most views can be shown as either a list or tree structure.

Currently Cantata has the following views:

1. Library - sorted as Album Artist (or Artist if Album Artist not set), Album, and finally Track.
2. Albums - displays albums as icons, sorted by their title.
3. Folders - displays MPDs virtual filesystem. (This view is hidden by default)
4. Playlists
5. Dynamic - dynamic playlists
6. Streams - allows saving of internet radio URLs
7. Online - Jamendo and Magnatune
8. Lyrics
9. Info - displays artist information from wikipedia/last.fm (via EchoNest)
10. Devices - enables copying from/to USB-Mass-Storage (UMS) and MTP devices, and ripping AudioCDs

The sidebar has a context menu, allowing you to control its style and what items are shown.

See http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Client:Cantata for more information.

1.0.3
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1. Dont display codec settings in copy dialog unless we are copying to a device, or from an AudioCD.
2. Save size of Track Organiser, Tag Editor, and ReplayGain dialogs.
3. Fix consistency of default button in messageboxes between Qt and KDE builds.
4. Unless using a dark toolbar, use same colour for toolbar menu icon as per menu icon in views.
5. Document how to make a release build.
6. When searching for artist information, if song's album artist contains artist, then use album artist. This is for tracks that have an artist such
as "abc featuring 123", and album artist is "abc"
7. Improve comsume icon at larger sizes.
8. Fix lyrics background when we toggle from showing cover to not showing.
9. Replace multiple blank lines with single blank line when showing lyrics.
10. Fix AudioCD playback.
11. Remove time remaining from action dialog - its not accurate enough to be meaningful.
12. Fix detection of whether streams file is writable or not.

1.0.2
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1. Show artist name as caption for cover dialog when setting artist images.
2. Connect 'Set Cover' signal for windows builds.
3. Fix usage of timers in threads.
4. Fix non-taglib build.
5. Fix loading of SVGs in windows build.
6. Fix cover downloading.
7. Fix deletion of threads.
8. Enable online services for windows builds.
9. Fix 'No such song' warning when removing songs from playqueue.
10. Indicate when streams file is read-only.
11. Better status labels for streams and dynamic pages

1.0.1
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1. Dont display Jamendo and Magnatune cache settings in config dialog if these have been disabled at build time.
2. Correctly calculate size of cache folders when folder does not exist.
3. Fix deletion of cache when single item selected.

1.0.0
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Over 100 changes! The main changes are:
* Basic cover manager.
* AudioCD suport - playback and rip.
* Better MTP support - handles multiple storage locations, fixed creation of folders.
* First run wizard.
* Option to embed covers in music files when copied to device.
* Import of Radio, IceCast, and SomaFM streams.
* Jamendo and Magnatune support.
* Ambiance theme support - dark toolbar, move window via toolbar, and overlay-ish scrollbars.
* Remove WebKit usage. Use EchoNest to retrieve artist biography, and list of similar artists.
* Stop after current track.
* Monochrome sidebar icons.
* Speed up play queue searches.