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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 - Group by either Genre, Album Artist (or Artist if Album Artist not set), or Album
2. Folders - displays MPDs virtual filesystem. (This view is hidden by default)
3. Playlists - standard and dyamic
4. Internet - Radio Streams (allows saving of internet radio URLs, searching for stations via TuneIn or ShoutCast, station listings from; Digitally Imported (+Sky, JazzRadio, RockRadio), TuneIn, IceCast, ShoutCast, SomaFM, etc.) and Online services (Jamendo, Magnatune, SoundCloud, and Podcasts)
5. Devices - enables copying from/to USB-Mass-Storage (UMS) and MTP devices, and ripping AudioCDs
6. Search - search via MPD
The sidebar has a context menu, allowing you to control its style and what items are shown.
Refer to http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Client:Cantata, and https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CDrummond/cantata/master/README, for further information.
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NOTE: The screenshots on this page are out of date, and only reflect the 1.x codebase
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5 years ago
2.0.0
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Initial release of 2.0, main changes:
1. Use SQLite to cache MPD listing
2. Combine Artists and Albums into Library tab
3. Allow grouping by Genre
4. Merge Online and Streams into Internet tab
5. Merge Playlists and Dynamc Playlists tabs
6. Use 'Composer' tag to group albums of specified genres
7. Use mix of icon themes for flatter icon style - and use mono icons where appropriate
2.0.1
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1. Delay creation of Jamendo and Magnatune DBs until required.
2. Fix 'Scroll to current track' in table style play queue if track number column is hidden.
3. Add icon for proxy config - if proxy settings enabled.
4. Fix possibly missing save play queue icon.
5. Install pre-rendered PNG icons for Linux builds.
6. Use last.fm 2.0 API for finding similar artists in dynamic playlists.
7. Fix listing of CUE files.
8. Only honour 'startHidden' setting if also configured to use system tray.
9. Folder page nolonger has a search field - so if upgrading from a 1.x config with folder search visible, then hide it.
10. Don't allow copying of cue file tracks to devices.
11. When calculating collapsed window height, take into account size of menubar, if it is visible.
12. Try to ensure menu button width is at least equal to height.
13. Fix compilation on some systems.
14. Remove usage of libavutil/audioconvert.h - its no longer in ffmpeg since 1.3, and Cantata does not need it anyway.
15. Fix playback of AudioCDs
16. Fix incorrect AudioCD cover
17. Fix Qt5 gcc5 compilation.
18. Fix wrong/missing ratings in toolbar.
19. Fix compilation with Qt5.7
20. Fix drag'n'drop of non-loaded playlists.
21. Use a single-shot timer to timeout obtaining current cover.
22. Fix AudioCD playback when MPD's curl is using IPv6
23. Fix current track display when chaging from one track with no meta-data to another with no meta-data.
5 years ago
2.0.0
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Initial release of 2.0, main changes:
1. Use SQLite to cache MPD listing
2. Combine Artists and Albums into Library tab
3. Allow grouping by Genre
4. Merge Online and Streams into Internet tab
5. Merge Playlists and Dynamc Playlists tabs
6. Use 'Composer' tag to group albums of specified genres
7. Use mix of icon themes for flatter icon style - and use mono icons where appropriate
2.0.1
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1. Delay creation of Jamendo and Magnatune DBs until required.
2. Fix 'Scroll to current track' in table style play queue if track number column is hidden.
3. Add icon for proxy config - if proxy settings enabled.
4. Fix possibly missing save play queue icon.
5. Install pre-rendered PNG icons for Linux builds.
6. Use last.fm 2.0 API for finding similar artists in dynamic playlists.
7. Fix listing of CUE files.
8. Only honour 'startHidden' setting if also configured to use system tray.
9. Folder page nolonger has a search field - so if upgrading from a 1.x config with folder search visible, then hide it.
10. Don't allow copying of cue file tracks to devices.
11. When calculating collapsed window height, take into account size of menubar, if it is visible.
12. Try to ensure menu button width is at least equal to height.
13. Fix compilation on some systems.
14. Remove usage of libavutil/audioconvert.h - its no longer in ffmpeg since 1.3, and Cantata does not need it anyway.
15. Fix playback of AudioCDs
16. Fix incorrect AudioCD cover
17. Fix Qt5 gcc5 compilation.
18. Fix wrong/missing ratings in toolbar.
19. Fix compilation with Qt5.7
20. Fix drag'n'drop of non-loaded playlists.
21. Use a single-shot timer to timeout obtaining current cover.
22. Fix AudioCD playback when MPD's curl is using IPv6
23. Fix current track display when chaging from one track with no meta-data to another with no meta-data.
hgue
2 years ago
I use the search feature for stream providers on a regular basis. I noticed that you have to quit the search field on the top before you can search within another providers stream list. That's kinda annoying and should be easy to fix. I use version 1.4.1 of cantata.
Ciao!
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CraigD
2 years ago
Also, please use the googlecode page to report bugs.
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ShalokShalom
2 years ago
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imruska
2 years ago
I have FLAC files, and they have ReplayGain tags created by metaflac.
At the preferences - Playback - ReplayGain is set to Album, yet I can hear great differences between files of different albums in playback volume, where the AlbumGain (and/or TrackGain) value (i.e. the loudness of the files) differ.
This is for openSuse 13.1, Cantata 1.4.0.
ReplayGain didn't work for earlier versions of Cantata on openSuse, either.
Should I create the ReplayGain values by Cantata instead of metaflac? Or should Cantata read the ReplayGain tags of files directly?
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CraigD
2 years ago
As for Cantata, it can read and update the ReplayGain tags. The code used to calculate this is preformed by libebur128. If you start the Cantata ReplayGain dialog with your pre-tagged files, does it show the existing ReplayGain settings?
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mlerota
2 years ago
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CraigD
2 years ago
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mlerota
2 years ago
I have many files and no one works.
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arktika
2 years ago
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CraigD
2 years ago
Linux? Use your pacakge manager - assuming this is how you installed.
If not, do it by hand.
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marthy
2 years ago
Since 1.4 version, the window is too big for a small resolution like 1024x600 (netbook).
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CraigD
2 years ago
Still, Cantata is open source - so if it bothers you that much, I'll gladly accept a patch.
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CraigD
2 years ago
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VectoR
3 years ago
meanwhile the stream playing....
Other RPM packagesfrom 1.4.0 release available here:
ftp://ftp.blackpanther.hu/blackPanther/OS/updates/v11.1/cantata-1.4.0-1bP.i586.rpm
ps: "hide to tray" option please
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CraigD
3 years ago
However, favourite streams are now saved in an MPD playlist - so if you have playlists disabled, or not configured correctly, then you will have issues.
Minimise to system tray is already there - and has been for some time.
kde-apps is not the place for reporting bugs, etc - please use the googlecode page.
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VectoR
3 years ago
The systray question, sorry. I'm don't see first time, I found in settings. Very nice application, congratulation.
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VectoR
3 years ago
meanwhile the stream playing....
Other RPM packagesfrom 1.4.0 release available here:
ftp://ftp.blackpanther.hu/blackPanther/OS/updates/v11.1/cantata-1.4.0-1bP.i586.rpm
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ntasos
3 years ago
After reading a previous post about folder names with accents, I created a symlink: "/home/ntasos/mpd" that points to my music dir and replaygain works, except for songs that contain greek letters.
I tested on cantata 1.3.4 and on my own build from source.
I'm running openSUSE 13.1.
I hope you could fix it, but anyway cantata is realy great, thanks
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CraigD
3 years ago
For future issues, please cratea bug report on Cantata's googlecode page.
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CraigD
3 years ago
(Instructions are on the googlecode page)
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ntasos
3 years ago
Thanks again, you're doing an amazing job.
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imruska
3 years ago
Would it be possible to show in the song information panel the information embedded in the song in the comment tag? I mean the way Cantata now handles lyrics. When lyrics tag is set, it is shown, when lyrics tag is not set, Cantata tries to get it from the Internet.
So I would like Comment from the comment tag, and when there is no comment tag, Cantata could get info from the Internet.
It may be that many people do not want Cantata to work this way, then could one at least set the priority? So I would opt for Comment (or Information or whatever) tag first, whereas others could opt for information from the Internet.
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CraigD
3 years ago
I could fetch song info from wikipedia, and display under the lyrics. But then things start getting messy. I need to give this more thought...
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imruska
3 years ago
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CraigD
3 years ago
The comment field, is (probably) per-track specific (at least it would be read per-track). Therefore, it belongs on the right.
Sorry, but I really dont see theft artist-column as the best place to put it. What is in the comment field that would need to be displayed in the context view?
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