G4Music: An elegant and efficient music player for Linux
One of the areas or areas where GNU / Linux usually offers a wide range of possibilities for applications It is usually the multimedia. Both, for the creation and manipulation, as well as the simple reproduction of images, photos, videos, music and sounds. Therefore, after many Music players addressed, today we announce, for the first time in Ubunlog, one more called «G4 Music».
And for those who have never met this app, it is worth briefly noting that it stands out for being a fast, smooth and lightweight music player written in GTK4. What's more, it has a beautiful and adaptable user interface. and focuses on the high performance, thus favoring those people accustomed to managing a large number of songs.
It is worth noting that, «G4 Music» it's just as good as others Music players previously commented. Therefore, we recommend exploring some after finishing this post:
G4Music: A music player written in Vala
What is G4Music?
According to his Official website, «G4 Music» is
"A beautiful, fast, smooth and lightweight music player written in GTK4."
Which makes it, in the eyes of many, an elegant and efficient music player.
Features
Among its general features and current news The following 10 most important can be highlighted:
- It is available in the stable version 1.6.
- It can be installed mainly via the installation format via Flatpack (FlatHub).
- It offers support for most of the popular music file types.
- It offers support for file playback via remote connection (samba protocol and others).
- It loads fast, and is capable of running an analysis of thousands of music files quickly.
- It has a very small size (weight), so it only needs less than 400KB for its installation.
- Supports embedded album art or external images as album cover. Meanwhile, it is capable of exporting the embedded ones.
- It has low memory consumption for very large playlists, complete with album covers, with no thumbnail caches to store.
- It is able to sort the managed music files by album/artist/title or randomly. In addition, to support full text searches.
- Includes a cover with Gaussian blur as the background of the window. And it stays in sync, with GNOME 42's light/dark mode.
Installation and Screenshots
For installation of G4Music, we will use the package manager Flatpak in a respin created with MX-21 (Debian-11) called Miracles, in its current stable version 3.0.
And for this, we execute the following command order, to then run it via the main menu, explore it and test it, as shown in the following images:
flatpak install flathub com.github.neithern.g4music
Note: It is assumed, that flatpak is already installed by default.
Installation via terminal
Launch via the main menu
Initial view of G4Music
Full view of G4Music
Preferences menu
Keyboard shortcuts
Version and credits
Summary
In summary, this «G4 Music» is a cool music player which stands out for having a beautiful interface and offer a easy use, without major pretensions, and all through a low resource consumption. The elegance and simplicity is its main objective to carry out, the successful management of great volumes of music.
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