This Musique update is the first Qt 6-based release I do. The main effort has been modernizing the look of the app: a more flat and clean style, with rounded artist pics and a nicer toolbar.
The Info View has been redesigned. Hope you like the centered lyrics.
Thanks to Qt 6, Musique now follows dark/light theme system settings on all platforms. Text is zoomable like in browser.
The crash with macOS < 11 is fixed. 10.14 is required. On the Ubuntu side, the .deb I provide requires 23.04 because of a libmpv version change.
Enjoy this release and maybe support the project by donating.
Just a quick note to announce Musique 1.7. This release fixes missing artist images. These pics were previously taken from the Last.fm API which unfortunately stopped offering this feature. Musique now uses the Discogs API to fetch artist images.
Musique 1.6 introduces Genres. A new tab will show your music library automatically organised by genres, subgenres and decades. For example, you’ll see a Rock item. If you double-click it you will a get a list of subgenres like Alternative and Grunge. In this example, if you play the Rock item you will play all rock songs including Alternative and Grunge.
Musique now supports macOS Mojave Dark Mode. This also helps with dark themes on Windows and Linux.
Under the hood there are big changes. MPV is the new multimedia engine. Gapless playback is definitely better than before for file formats that support it. All other libraries such as Qt and Taglib have been updated to the latest version.
I’ve got a small holiday gift for you: starting from this release Musique is free on Mac and Windows! Spread it to your friends and parents still wrapping their heads around the iTunes mess!
Version 1.5 sports a reworked icon and various style improvements including a new toolbar on macOS, brand new icons and Retina display (aka HiDPI) support. Musique now supports multiple disk and multiple artists albums (i.e. compilations). Various minor bugs have been fixed and translations updated.
Musique doesn’t try to display “correct” song/album titles and artist names anymore. It was never a full-fledged solution and some users didn’t even like it. I developed Finetune to be a complete solution for automatically fixing music tags. Try it.
Added out of the box support on Mac OS X for many audio formats thanks to the new VLC-based engine:
FLAC, OGG Vorbis, Monkey’s Audio (APE), Musepack (MPC), WavPack (WV), True Audio (TTA) and others
Style refresh to make Musique feel at home on OS X Yosemite and Windows 8
Enhancements to the search suggestions
Make the volume handle red when volume is zero
Hide the status bar when in the Info View
Remote collections: do not update collection if dir does not exist or is empty
Added –stop-after-this command line switch
Fixed duplicate tracks when playing an artist
The Mac version is now 64bit and works on 10.6 or later
The Windows version has been updated to the latest VLC
Linux: Added Stop After This Video Unity & Gnome 3 action
I’m quite happy to announce Musique 1.3. This update adds the much requested artist and albums sorting. The playlist look has been slightly reworked and now sports album cover thumbnails.
1.3 also includes many bug fixes and important performance improvements in the Artist and Album views.
Ubuntu users can update to 1.3 by installing musique-ubuntu on the Ubuntu Software Center (in a few days, when Musique is approved). From now on I’ll personally take care of updates so you can count on always having the latest version.
Here’s the list of changes:
Album and artist sorting
Album covers in the playlist
Faster artist and album views
Notification at end of collection scan
Notification support on Ubuntu
Gapless playback (Only works on Linux with the GStreamer Phonon backend)
Find more local covers (added GIF, PNG, BMP and JPEG file types)
Fixed homonymous albums from different artists being erroneously merged
Fixed albums not correctly sorted when playing an artist
Fixed play icon hover animation in Folders view
Fixed lyrics showing showing garbage in some cases
Fixed handling of tracks that have no associated album
This is just a minor release for Musique. 1.2.1 includes a significant speed up in the way artist photos and album cover are painted to screen. This makes scrolling faster. Autoupdating Windows and Mac versions. Updated toolbar style for Windows and Ubuntu.
This update focuses on polish and fixes a showstopper bug that caused artist names from Last.fm to be read incorrectly. All users are advised to rescan their collections. Basically Musique was parsing data from Last.fm in a rather sloppy way and new data in the web services replies triggered the bug. All is well and good now.
Here’s the full change log:
Fixed wrong artist names, please rescan your collection
Long artist names and album titles displaying incorrectly
Fixed disabled Info button when the playlist finishes
Better playlist drag’n’drop support
OS X Mountain Lion notifications
Mac Sandbox support
Compatible with OS X Mountain Lion Gatekeeper
Partial Retina Display support. Still using 1x bitmaps because of Qt not being ready
Fixed search box being erroneously focused on the Mac
Fixed wrong localization of some menu items on the Mac
Added missing menu item to restore hidden window, as per the OS X HIG
I’m happy to announce the release of Musique 1.1! This release brings many improvements. I tried to listen to user feedback and set priorities accordingly.
Last.fm scrobbling finally comes to Musique with a streamlined UI. I hope you’ll appreciated the effort I made trying to avoid clutter and keep the app “preferences-free”.
The music collection scanning has seen various improvements. It is now much faster. At least 2x or 3x faster. Photos are found for a greater number of artists. Track titles are now corrected automatically using data from Last.fm. Album covers are loaded from image files following common naming conventions such as “cover.jpg”, “front.jpg” and “folder.jpg”. Album covers embedded in audio files are also supported. Once the scanning process is complete, remote album covers and artist photos will start downloading in the background.
Lyrics embedded in MP3 files are now supported.
Album release year inside tags has now precedence over Last.fm often incorrect release year.
On Windows, an important bug causing duplicate tracks after a rescan has been fixed. On the Mac, the UI has been enhanced by using the native, rounded search box and a new style for the sliders. Also application menu items such as “Quit” and “About” should be properly localized for languages other than English.
I finally made a decision on the new name for Minitunes. Thanks to all the people who made interesting suggestions. I think Musique is a cool name. Very simple and self-evident.
Anyway, this is not just a rename. It is a new release that brings even more polish to Minitunes Musique.
A disk-based HTTP cache speeds things up, especially if you’re going to rescan your library. Support for Mac OS X Lion full-screen mode has been added. On Mac and Windows there is a nice crossfade between views. A crash when quitting the app while scanning the music collection has been fixed. Also a long standing bug with missing application icon in Linux packages has been fixed.
Another big news is that finally we have a Windows version. So Musique is now fully crossplatform. Spread the word to friends using Windows!
