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Nightingale

Nightingale is a free and powerfull music player for Linux, Windows and Mac based on the Songbird media player source code. A beautiful interface with a wide range of supported audio formats, all with multi-platform support!

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Application type

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  • Discontinued

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
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Last update was on January 12, 2014 for version 1.12.1 - https://blog.getnightingale.com/2014/01/12/announcing-nightingale-1-12-1/

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Features

  1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  2.  Playlists management
  3.  Skins
  4.  Media library
  5.  Skinnable
  6.  Integrated Web Browser
  7. iTunes icon  Import from iTunes
  8.  Gapless Playback

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stable and ok on ubuntu 14.04 for large libraries

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What is Nightingale?

Nightingale is a free and powerfull music player for Linux, Windows and Mac based on the Songbird icon Songbird media player source code. A beautiful interface with a wide range of supported audio formats, all with multi-platform support!

Notable features

Plugins compatible with Songbird (with one modification to the addon) Multi-platform compatibility with Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Mac OS X v10.5 (x86, x86-64). Ability to play multiple audio formats, such as MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Apple Lossless and WMA Ability to play Apple FairPlay-encoded audio on Windows and Mac platforms via hooks into QuickTime (authorization takes place in iTunes) Ability to play Windows Media DRM audio on Windows platforms Media files stored on pages viewed in the browser show up as playable files in Nightingale MP3 file download Ability to subscribe to MP3 blogs as playlists Ability to build custom mixes Ability to scan the user's computer for all audio files and add them to a local library A configurable and collapsible graphical user interface similar to iTunes, and mini-player mode Keyboard shortcuts and media keyboard support Last.fm integration via a plugin, complete with love/hate buttons Insound.com and HypeMachine integration Microsoft MTP compatible device support Ability to edit and save metadata tags Gapless playback & ReplayGain Watch folders Media importing / exportings (from and to iTunes) Automatic Library Files Organization