I’ve always been a fan of Rhythmbox but the new RB is a major improvement! The new RB has some new tango style icons which will be the first things users notice. Gap-less play back has been added for seamless playback of those mix tapes but Gap-less play back is not enabled by default and must be turned on in the preferences. Other improvements listed in the change log are
* handle lastfm:// URIs
* make Magnatune/Jamendo loading intro saner on small screens
* fix last.fm streaming
* allow the user of Magnatune gift cards
* do iPod DB saving in the background, not blocking the UI
* vastly reduce the Jamendo plugin’s memory usage
* add support for MTP audio players
* clean up the playback preferences UI
* update play count, rating and last played on iPods
* add support for multiple lyrics sites, and allow editing of lyrics
I still had some problems with the visualizations crashing but this bug is listed in the bug reports and is fixed in the SVN versions. One of the biggest improvements is added support for a slew will now be able to work with RB! The Compatible players are:
Apple:
- iPod
- iPod mini
- iPod nano
- iPod Shuffle
Creative:
- MuVo NX
- MuVo2
- MuVo TX
- Zen Micro
- Zen Nano
- NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra
- MuVo V200
- MuVo N200 (MuVo Micro)
- Zen Micro
- Zen Stone
Nokia:
- Nokia 770
- Nokia N800
- Nokia E60
- Nokia E70
SONICblue:
- Rio Forge
- Rio Karma
- Rio Carbon
Philips:
- Philips GoGear SA1330
Panasonic:
- Panasonic SV-MP31V
Samsung:
- Samsung Yepp YP-35
- Samsung Yepp YP-ST5
- Samsung YP-MT6V
- Samsung YP-F1
- Samsung YP-U1
- Samsung YP-Z5
- Samsung YP-U2Z
Sony:
- Sony Network Walkman
- Jetflash MP3 Player, AKA NAPA LCD-HD, AKA Medion, AKA Tevion
- MSCNMMC MP3 Player / Tevion MD80946
- EXATEL i-BEAD100 Player
- Traxdata Digital Audio Player
- TrekStor i.Beat 115
- Medion MD41512 / Tevion 41512
- Transcend (T.Sonic ??? White)
- Jens of Sweeden (JoS) MP-120
- Transcend (T.Sonic 610)
- TrekStor i.Beat jump MP3 Player
- Sony PSP (PlayStation Portable)
RCA:
- Lyra RD1072
- Lyra RD2212
- Lyra MC2021C
SanDisk:
- Sansa e100 series
- Sansa m200 series
- Sansa e200 series
- Sansa e200R series
- Sansa c200 series
- Feiya Technology Corp Memory Bar
- Peak Digital Audio Player
Danger Research:
- Hiptop/Sidekick 3
Cowon:
- iAudio M3
- iAudio X5
- iAudio M5
- iAudio U2
- iAudio G3
- iAudio 5
- iAudio G2
- iAudio U3
- iAudio F2
Archos:
- Archos GMini 400
- Archos XS 100
- Archos A404
Sony Ericsson:
- K750i mobile phone
- W800 Walkman Phone
- W950i mobile phone
- Sony Ericsson W810i
- Sony Ericsson W300i
LG:
- LG Fusic Phone
- iGP 100
- iHP-100,115
- HP-120,140
- H320, H340
TouchStone/WaveX:
- TS-300
Foston, MPMan:
- Foston 128/256MB / MPMan MP-Ki 128 Player
Jens of Sweden:
- MP-130
MSI:
- MegaStick-1 Flash Stick
- Nexia NX58XX (including Super*Talent MegaScreen)
Motorola:
- Motorola iTunes enabled phone
- ROKR e2 Memory Card mode
iRiver:
- T20 UMS
- T30 UMS
- T10 UMS
- iFP 100 UMS (supports application/ogg only after firmware upgrade)
- iFP 300 UMS (supports application/ogg only after firmware upgrade)
- iFP 500 UMS (supports application/ogg only after firmware upgrade)
- iFP 700 UMS
- iFP 800 UMS
- iFP 900 UMS
- iFP 1000 UMS
- N10 UMS
- H10 20GB UMS
- H10 5GB UMS
USB devices that are music players but uses a user-space library: Archos:
- GMini 120
- GMini XS202
- iDP 100 UMS
- iFP 100 IMM (supports application/ogg only after firmware upgrade)
- iFP 300 IMM (supports application/ogg only after firmware upgrade)
- iFP 500 IMM (supports application/ogg only after firmware upgrade)
- iFP 700 IMM
- iFP 800 IMM
- iFP 900 IMM
- iFP 1000 IMM
- N10 IMM
- H10 20GB MTP
- H10 5GB MTP
- H10 5,6GB MT
Rhythmbox 0.11.1 will be included in the next release of Ubuntu 7.10 Gusty Gibbon but if you would like to give it a try on Ubuntu 7.04 a Repo has be set up.
You can get it by adding
deb http://blog.blackdown.de/static/debian/rhythmbox/ feisty main
deb-src http://blog.blackdown.de/static/debian/rhythmbox/ feisty main
to /etc/apt/sources.list
Then upgrade/install rhythmbox:
aptitude update
aptitude install rhythmbox
The repository is signed with my GPG key. The key can be imported into your apt keyring with
wget http://blog.blackdown.de/static/gpg.asc -O – | \
sudo apt-key add -
If you are going to use the Last.fm integration of Rhythmbox, make sure you only enable one of the two plug-ins! If you want to use the new-style plug-in, you need the lastfm client. The latest beta package for Ubuntu is available on the Last.fm beta forum.
