Audience Media Player Getting Close To A New Release, Help Test It!

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1UX9DR4CLt0/UVmYquWLVsI/AAAAAAAAOy4/_SN372Z7psM/s1600/audience-media-player.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="audience media player" border="0" height="221" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1UX9DR4CLt0/UVmYquWLVsI/AAAAAAAAOy4/_SN372Z7psM/s320/audience-media-player.png" title="audience media player" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://launchpad.net/audience">Audience</a> is a minimalistic, Gstreamer-based media player written in Vala. The second Audience release is getting close and its developers have invited users to help test it</b>. There aren't any major new features since the previous release, but a large amount of bugs have been fixed recently. So if you can help test it or just want to give it a try, read on.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Audience comes with a beautiful, minimalistic clutter-based interface and very few configuration options and is designed to play videos without getting in your way. The progress bar (which comes with previews support) along with a play/pause button, a sidebar (from where you can access the playlist and language / subtitles) toggle button and an add to playlist button are displayed at the bottom and are set to autohide by default. A few more settings can be tweaked by using Dconf editor (<i>org > pantheon > audience</i>). </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R1ilMPynAfg/UVmYyqmy2UI/AAAAAAAAOzA/LuyXAct8A3Y/s1600/audience_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="217" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R1ilMPynAfg/UVmYyqmy2UI/AAAAAAAAOzA/LuyXAct8A3Y/s320/audience_2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">As you can notice from the Dconf path above, Audience is designed for the elementary OS desktop (Pantheon) and it will probably become the default media player in the future. But of course, you can use it in any desktop environment.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Audience</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Before proceeding, please note that this PPA has quite a few elementary packages that are unstable so read the PPA description before adding it. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Audience can be installed in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04 (and obviously, elementary OS and other Ubuntu-based Linux distributions such as Linux Mint, etc.) by using the elementary Daily PPA:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/daily<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install audience</code></pre><b><br />Arch Linux</b> users can install the latest Audience via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/audience-bzr/">AUR</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And a note from Cody Garver, the main Audience developer, on how to report bugs for Audience: </div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">We only ask that users test videos that do not play/produce errors in Totem before submitting a bug to make sure it's Audience-specific.</blockquote><br /><b>Report any bugs you may find @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/audience">Launchpad</a>.</b><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Cody Garver for  the tip!<b> </b></i></div>

Audience Media Player Getting Close To A New Release, Help Test It!

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Parole Media Player 0.4.0 Released With New Features

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/parole">Parole</a>, the default <a href="http://www.xfce.org/">Xfce</a> / <a href="http://xubuntu.org/">Xubuntu</a> media player, has reached version 0.4.0, a development release which brings many new features and improvements.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest Parole 0.4.0 features CD and DVD playlist support, DVD navigation support, custom subtitle management and other new features along with some important bug fixes for fullscreen controls, screensaver inhibition and others.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/parole-media-player.png"><img alt="Parole Media Player 0.4.0" src="http://img.netupd8.com/parole-media-player_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><b>Here's the complete Parole 0.4.0 changelog:</b><br /><ul><li>fixed build bugs;</li><li>fixed fullscreen controls;</li><li>fixed screensaver inhibition;</li><li>fixed freezing with subtitles;</li><li>fixed skipping every second ogg-vorbis in playlist;</li><li>added embedded mode so you can use Parole as a browser plugin with mozplugger;</li><li>added missing codec installation like in Totem so now if you try to play a format for which you don't have any codecs installed, parole will prompt you to install the correct codecs;</li><li>added custom subtitle management (you can now choose subtitles manually);</li><li>added CD and DVD playlist support;</li><li>added DVD navigation support;</li><li>added Recent Items in open menu;</li><li>replaced Stream Properties plugin with AudioBox widget;</li><li>moved notifications from system tray plugin to notify plugin;</li><li>added album artwork and details to notifications;</li><li>ported configuration to Xfconf;</li><li>interface refinements;</li><li>keyboard shortcut refinements.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For those not familiar with Parole, this is a <b>lightweight</b> media player based on the GStreamer framework, <b>designed specially for Xfce</b>, but obviously, <b>you can use it in other desktop environments</b> like GNOME too. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The application can play local files (with subtitles support), CD / DVDs and live streams and is extensible with plugins - currently, 3 plugins are available by default: a notification plugin, one to inhibit Power Manager from suspending the machine while playing a DVD and a tray icon plugin.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Parole media player in Ubuntu / Xubuntu 12.10 or 12.04</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest Parole 0.4.0 is available in the Xfce 4.12 PPA, along with other Xfce 4.12 development packages such as Xfce4 Settings 4.11 which introduces <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/how-to-use-multiple-monitors-in-xubuntu.html" title="How To Use Multiple Monitors In Xubuntu / Xfce (Extended Display Instead Of Mirror)">multi-monitor improvements</a> or <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/install-thunar-with-tabs-support-in.html">Thunar 1.6.2</a> which comes with tabs support and other improvements. </div><br />Important: Ubuntu 12.04 users also need to add the <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/05/install-xfce-410-in-xubuntu-1204.html">Xfce 4.10 PPA</a>!.<br /><br /><b>To add the PPA and install the latest Parole 0.4.0 in Ubuntu (Xubuntu) 12.10 or 12.04, use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.12<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install parole</code></pre><br />The latest Parole 0.4.0 source code can be downloaded from <a href="http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/parole/">HERE</a>.

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Xnoise Media Player Gets New Album Art View

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Xnoise 0.2.13 has been released today, introducing a new Album Art view,</b> similar to the one available in Banshee or in Rhythmbox through the <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/coverart-browser-rhythmbox-plugin.html">CoverArt Browser plugin</a>, along with a <b>new application icon</b> created by <a href="https://plus.google.com/101681698460010159459/posts">Reda Lazri</a>.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The new Album Art view can be accessed from the toolbar/menu or by using the CTRL + B keyboard shortcut. There's an integrated search too, which supports searching for artist, album or track name so you don't have to exit the Album Art view to find out on which album you can find a certain track:</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9bfkZu5Dx1Q/UI7kDye75MI/AAAAAAAALa4/rxveU3WryNc/s1600/xnoise-album-browse.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="xnoise media player" border="0" height="221" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9bfkZu5Dx1Q/UI7kDye75MI/AAAAAAAALa4/rxveU3WryNc/s320/xnoise-album-browse.png" title="xnoise media player" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Xnoise album art view</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a name='more'></a><b>Other changes in Xnoise 0.2.13:</b><br /><ul><li>Revamped 'Now Playing' image rendering with reflections</li><li>Add weblink to keyboard shortcuts in help menu</li><li>Use symbolic icon in volume slider</li><li>Implement MPRIS 2 seek</li><li>Enable support for more media types</li><li>Mingw compatibility fixes</li></ul><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-98IzgUMv4yA/UI7kLCiiSKI/AAAAAAAALbA/3cJh50ZFIXc/s1600/xnoise-icon.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="new xnoise icon" border="0" height="114" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-98IzgUMv4yA/UI7kLCiiSKI/AAAAAAAALbA/3cJh50ZFIXc/s320/xnoise-icon.png" title="new xnoise icon" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Xnoise icon</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Xnoise is a fast GTK+ media player written in Vala, which supports both music and video files</b>. It features automatic album art fetching, a nice "Now Playing" pane, media keys sypport, plugins for online services like UbuntuOne Music Store, Last.fm, Lyrics as well as Ubuntu integration such as Quicklists, HUD support, SoundMenu integration and notifications. </div><br />Here's a video recorded by the Xnoise developer, demoing some of the features available in the latest Xnoise 0.2.13:<br /><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ecy_cEVPxFw" width="420"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecy_cEVPxFw">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><h2>Install Xnoise in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OG0C7E1d6Wg/UI7nSlKx_yI/AAAAAAAALb8/o_WJfL-5cmY/s1600/xnoise-video.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="xnoise media player" border="0" height="203" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OG0C7E1d6Wg/UI7nSlKx_yI/AAAAAAAALb8/o_WJfL-5cmY/s320/xnoise-video.png" title="xnoise media player" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>To install the latest Xnoise in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal or 12.04 Precise Pangolin, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shkn/xnoise<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install xnoise</code></pre><br />For other Linux distributions, get Xnoise source via <a href="https://github.com/shuerhaaken/xnoise/downloads">GitHub</a>.

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