Mesk Audio Player

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Formats supported: mp3, ogg vorbis. (Thanks to GStreamer, other formats may work but are not yet officially supported.)
The basics: play, pause, stop, next, and previous audio tracks.
CD audio support for all your CD drives. Album information is fetched from freeDB.
HTTP support, including basic authentication.

Supported playlist formats: XSPF (spiff) (the default), M3U, PLS.
Support for multiple playlists with the ability to cut/copy/paste between them.
Individual tracks can be queued, or reordered with drag-and-drop.
Files can be added using drag-and-drop from other applications (e.g., file manager or web browser links).
Playlists can be searched; press CTRL+F or '/'
Playlist modes shuffle and repeat.
Playlists can be set read-only.
Playlist state is automatically saved.
Playlists can be exported to any of the supported formats.

System tray icon with menu support for most major audio operations.
The application and UI can be controlled remotely from the command line or other applications using the per-session DBus interface.
Album cover art and song information for the currently playing track is displayed.
The user interface supports both normal and compact mode.

The audioscrobbler plugin will submit the songs you play to last.fm enabling charts and statistics like this.
For users of the Jabber/XMPP client Gajim, the gajimstatus plugin will update your IM status with the currently playing song information.
The albumart plugin will download missing album covers from Amazon.com

Current release is 0.3.2 (requires GStreamer 0.10.x):
Gzipped tar archive | ebuild

Previous release is 0.2.1 (requires GStreamer 0.8.x):
Gzipped tar archive | ebuild | Ubuntu (Dapper)

The development repository can be accessed using subversion:

Stable branch:	http://svn.nicfit.net/svn/mesk/branches/0.3
Development trunk:	http://svn.nicfit.net/svn/mesk/trunk
$ svn co --username anonymous --password '' http://svn.nicfit.net/svn/mesk/trunk mesk-trunk $ cd mesk-trunk $ ./autogen.sh $ make $ make install