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issue164:critique3

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Website: https://gogglesmm.dev/ Price: Free! Blurb: “Goggles Music Manager is a music collection manager and player that automatically organizes your music files based on artist, album, and song. It supports gapless playback and features easy tag editing.” NOTE: see elsewhere this issue for an interview with the developer Installation via PPA https://launchpad.net/~s.jansen/+archive/ubuntu/gogglesmm sudo add-apt-repository ppa:s.jansen/gogglesmm sudo apt install gogglesmm So why should you choose GogglesMM over another player? Or why GogglesMM has become my favourite player in the shortest possible time.

Site Web : https://gogglesmm.dec/

Prix : Gratuit !

Aperçu : « Goggles Music Manager est un gestionnaire de collection to musique et un lecteur qui organise vos fichiers de musique automatiquement, sur la base d'artiste, d'album et de morceau. Il supporte la lecture sans blanc et présente l'édition facile d'étiquettes. »

NOTE : un entretien avec le développeur figure ailleurs dans ce numéro

Installation via PPA

https://launchpad.net/~s.jansen/+archive/ubuntu/gogglesmm

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:s.jansen/gogglesmm

sudo apt install gogglesmm

Mais pourquoi choisir GogglesMM plutôt qu'un autre lecteur ? Ou les raisons pour lesquelles GogglesMM est devenu mon lecteur préféré dans extrêmement peu de temps.

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My audio files range from MP3-FLAC-M4A-OPUS-OGG and more. Though I like Sayonara Player, it does not play all the formats. While VLC on the other hand, does, it does not theme properly or compress enough for my 1366 screen, or theme the way I want. Clemintine also had its own issues, so I kept looking. After the loss of exaile, I have not found a player that suited me 100%. To be fair, I tried GogglesMM before and the interface put me off (looked like every other three pane player), but I admit to not giving it a chance. So imagine my surprise, seeing a Mint guide saying it had LastFM support. https://mintguide.org/audio/728-goggles-music-manager-music-player-for-linux-mint.html I had to give it another go! A quick word on LastFM / LibreFM support – you need to be logged into your account, under settings → Applications, to add the player. You just need to tick scrobbling and then play an album. Accept GogglesMM as a trusted player and ‘Bob is your uncle’.

Mes fichiers audio comprennent des MP3-FLAC-M4A-OPUS-OGG et plus encore. Bien que Sayonara Player me plaise, il ne lit pas tous les formats. En revanche, tandis que VLC le fait, il n'accepte pas des thèmes correctement ou selon mes désirs et ne comprime pas assez pour mon écran de 1366. Puisque Clementine avait ses propres problèmes, je continuais à chercher. Après la perte d'exaile, je n'ai pas trouvé un lecteur qui me plaisait à 100 %. Pour être juste, il faut dire que j'ai déjà essayé GogglesMM et que l'interface m'a découragé (car elle ressemblait à tout autre lecteur à trois panneaux), mais j'avoue que je ne lui ai pas donné sa chance.

Imaginez ma surprise quand j'ai vu qu'un guide Mint disait qu'il supportait LastFM. https://mintguide.org/audio/728-goggles-music-manager-music-player-for-linux-mint.html

J'étais obligé de l'essayer à nouveau !

Un mot rapide sur le support de LastFM/LibreFM : il faut être connecté à cotre compte, sous paramètres → Applications, pour ajouter le lecteur. Il suffit de cocher scrobbling, puis de lire un album. Acceptez GogglesMM comme un lecteur de confiance et le tour est joué.

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GogglesMM does not require a middleman; it interfaces with ALSA directly. What I mean by this, is that there is no gstreamer interference. This does not mean that you cannot use PulseAudio, etc, you just need to look in the settings. I have an external DAC that I use as well, so I want CD Quality output and GogglesMM gives me that. Part of the reason I glanced over GogglesMM in the past, was because the Wiki is bare. The website is kind of ancient-feeling too. So if you are a budding web designer, why not offer them a hand? If I can, I will try to contribute with decent icons, as it looks a bit dated. Let me start with what I did not like – no program is perfect. When I minimize the application, it does not sit in my taskbar (I use XFCE). I would have liked taskbar integration, for those times that I need all my screen real estate. Also, other than just sitting in my dock, it does nothing; what I mean is, a play or pause would have been great, not just a launcher. When opening your “radio stations” tab, it may have been nice to include one or two. Also right-clicking inside the main window of the radio station main window, does not give you the option to add a station right there. Neither does the “podcasts” tab. Mouse-wheel scrolling on the volume button would have been nice. Do not click the “maximize” button while in mini mode. *cringe. This is not to say these things cannot be accomplished, but it could be easier.

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What I liked. Ctrl + M. So many players today do not have a mini mode, it’s a crime! Though with goggles, being able to resize it to almost nothing, I almost do not need it. There are a few themes built in, but GogglesMM also offers you the option of customizing those. Double-clicking on any of the color blocks will bring up a color wheel and you can go nuts. Scrobbling worked without needing to put my user or password into the application. It has a sleep timer. I do not often use playlists, but that option is also offered for those of you who do. You also do not need to use the “radio” or “podcast” option with a simple “play file or url” option. I tested this by pasting the following in, and it worked without hiccups. (http://n0d.radiojar.com/myw9vhzbnan.mp3?rj-ttl=5&rj-tok=AAABdJ_Spb0AFmapXpJX4UYmSg) The tagging option also worked directly by right-clicking a song. Adding your own custom covers is also just a simple right-click away, and “find cover” actually launches your favourite browser & search engine for the job. Everything else works as advertised, without making you feel overwhelmed by information overload. I am a simple guy who, when I need a music player, I need a music player, not a washer, dryer, chicken deboner with RGB lighting. The nice thing about it playing directly to ALSA, is that I can stream it to my output devices, say in the kitchen whilst doing dishes. When I use it on my laptop, it is sometimes nice to be able to see the time played, as well as the time remaining, as I use it as a crude timer, which I prefer to the either/or approach of other players.

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So far, GogglesMM ticks most of my boxes, it plays everything, it scrobbles, it connects directly to ALSA, so my OS volume control and GogglesMM volume control are one and it has a mini mode. The performance hit on my potato laptop is tiny. I am sure this will play fine on a raspberry pi 1! The shortcut keys are actually very handy and intuitive. Ctrl+P is play, for instance. (Don’t worry, we will fill you in on those afterwards). Now obviously, if you need milkdrop visualizations, need to keep an eye on the VU meter at all times, play tunes by mood, or need to know the bit rate at all times, this is not for you… But for everything else, there is mastercard, right? Did we miss anything? E-mail us at: misc@fullcirclemagazine.org

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