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Cantata The Almost Complete Music Player


Qt5 Graphical MPD Client for Linux, Windows, macOS, Haiku

"Cantata started off as a fork of QtMPC, mainly to provide better KDE integration - by using KDE libraries/classes wherever possible. However, the code (and user interface) is now *very* different to that of QtMPC, and both KDE and Qt (Linux) builds have the same feature set. Also, as of 1.4.0, by default Cantata is built as a Qt-only application (with no KDE dependencies)."

"Unlike most other MPD clients, Cantata caches a copy of the MPD music library. This is so that it can create a proper hierarchy of artists and albums (where Cantata will use the AlbumArtist tag if found, otherwise it will fallback to the Artist tag), to provide album counts, tracks counts, etc in the browser views and tooltips, and also to help with copying songs to/from devices," say the devs on their website.

The makers of Cantata have explained that the application is now better equipped to guess the name of tracks from the tags, the Tag Editor has been enhanced, the playlist will now provide more details, downloading podcasts should now be working correctly, users can now resize the Album covers, and numerous other smaller fixes have been implemented.

Changelog is available at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CDrummond/cantata/master/ChangeLog


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