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As for the popularity of gmusicbrowser, I noticed that in audio player reviews it's often not mentioned or being overlooked, even though the capabilities of gmb are stunning. I think the reason for that has a lot to do with 'look & feel', something many users want these days, especially when they're listening to music. I think it's a major influence on the whole experience of music. It's a 'fun' thing. And the look & feel or elegance of a GUI contribute much to that feeling.

It is indeed already very awesome that users can switch between different layouts. But the whole feeling of gmusicbrowser is still somewhat generic and plain, yet on the other hand confusing for first-time users. Because gmb has lots of functions and access to these functions is somehow cluttering the UI for the average user or often not intuitive. One example: When switching between layouts, the settings button (the cog icon) is sometimes there, sometimes not, i.e. depending on the layout, the menus are there or not. The first time I used gmusicbrowser, I was desperately looking for the settings until I found they are hidden behind this little icon.

However, I know it would be a lot of work, to reevaluate the whole GUI. But as a starter, why not implement simpler things to begin with?

Gmusicbrowser: This name sounds so generic. I would rename it to something nice. And at the same time give it a new and attractive icon that is not displayed pixelated in the Unity launcher, but clean and shiny. This alone would attract more users and make gmb more popular. The UI is a vital part of the user's experience.

In order to avoid confusing for long time users of gmb, the new name could still have some reference to the old name. For example, keeping the very distinct 'G' in the name somehow. Spontaneously I think of something like 'G Player',  'G Tunes' etc. The icon could then be one awesome letter G in a fancy font and with nice colors.

Or do some wordplay and make it more fancy:
'Gee! Player' or 'Gee! Tunes'
(Gee! is bascially a way of saying OMG!)

Or take a completely different route and adapt the name according to the icon. The icon is fun, but needs to get polished up. But if there would be a polished up version of the camel with headphones, then it could be called something like 'Camel Player' or 'Camel Tunes'. Although I'm not sure of 'Tunes' as for Apple's copyright madness.

or 'CamelEon' / 'CamelEon Player'
(deliberately leaving out the H of 'chameleon', in reference to both, the camel icon and to a chamelon, to indicate the capabiltiy of switching layouts that look like other players.)

Or rename it withot any reference to the previous versions. Anyway, as for a new name, possibilities are endless. In my opinion, it should just not be as generic as it is at the moment. The above examples are really just quick examples. Other people might have much better ideas.

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Examples

Song name: Down the Aisle (with you)
The title contains parentheses. And this causes gmb to scramble the artist entry, displaying it wrongly.

Artist name: Hall & Oates
Gmusicbrowser displays this as two entries 'Hall' and 'Oates' in the artist list, not as 'Hall & Oates'.

See screenshots.
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Hello,

It's easiest to explain by example.

Let's say I have a folder 'A-ha'. In this folder are various songs. None of these songs has an album tag. They are single tracks. And I've set individual cover art for each song (the single cover). But gmusicbrowser displays only one cover art pic from one of these songs in the folder, for all these tracks. In other words: 'The Sun always shines on TV' has cover art of the single cover, but it's not displayed. Instead, the cover art of the song 'Manhatten Skyline' is being displayed. And this was obviously chosen randomly for all songs in this folder.



Is there a way to tell gmusicbrowser to use for each file its own embedded cover art instead of 'one cover art for the whole folder'?
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Questions / Gapless playback on Ubuntu 12.04
October 11, 2012, 18:46:30
Hello,

Gapless playback is very important for me. I have lots of classical music and mix albums. So I enabled gapless playback in preferences, but it doesn't work.

I searched this forum and followed this instruction:
http://forum.gmusicbrowser.org/index.php?topic=556.msg2650

But Synaptic does not show me anything to update. Well, the forum post is from February. So perhaps the gstreamer version was succeeded already.

Anyway, I cannot get gapless playback in gmusicbrowser in Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. And I don't know why. My mp3 files are encoded with Lame encoder and have the Lame tag. It works with Audacious and DeadBeef. But gmusicbrowser plays with gap.

What can I do?
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Hello, I have just installed gmusicbrowser and really love it so far. There's only one thing that bugs me:
I would like to be able to browse through my albums without having all the single tracks as album "<Unknown>" in the list. Is this possible? Or is there a way to filter them? But how can I set a filter for an empty field?