Amberol: A music player from the GNOME CIRCLE Project
About 2 years ago, we fully explored the GNOME CIRCLE project, both in general, and in depth some of its apps that are part of it. In the latter case, we address Blanket, Markets and Shortwave, among other. However, for that time a call was not included "Amberol". Reason why, today we will address it to see what such an interesting new application of said project offers.
It is worth mentioning briefly that something for which this application stands out is for being and offering a simple music player, having a beautiful interface and low resource consumption of the system. Namely, simplicity, beauty and lightness to directly play music and sound without much paraphernalia.
GNOME CIRCLE: Applications and Libraries Project for GNOME
And, before we start today's topic on the simple music player of the GNOME Circle Project called "Amberol", we will leave the following related posts for later reference:
Amberol: Music Player for the GNOME Desktop
What is Amberol?
According to Official website de "Amberol" en flat hub, said application is briefly described as follows:
"Amberol is a music player without delusions of grandeur. If you only want to play the music available on your local system, then Amberol is the music player you are looking for.".
As we can see, Amberol with this objective manages to be a small, discreet and simple software, at its best. Therefore, it is ideal if we are looking for a music playback app in which we do not need to strongly manage our music collection, manage playlists or simply edit the metadata of music files. And of course, nothing to show the lyrics of the songs. Just play music, and voila, nothing more.
Features
Since, it focuses on simplicity, its features are usually very few. However, among its current features in its stable version today, 0.9.0, effective from 05/08/22, the following can be mentioned:
- A customizable graphical user interface.
- Recoloring of the user interface using the album art.
- Support for drag and drop functionality to queue songs.
- Implementation of random play and repeat songs.
- Integration of the MPRIS standard (Media Player Remote Interfacing Specification).
More Information
Something that stands out about Amberol is that it is built on the basis of GTK4. And, despite being developed for the GNOME desktop environment, it can work under other DEs, especially due to the fabulous universal support included in applications in Flatpak format. Therefore, as we will see below, it can be installed and used on various GNU/Linux Distros with different DEs.
In our particular case today, and as usual, we will test it on our usual MX Respin called Miracles, based on MX-21 (Debian-11), as can be seen in the following images, after installation with the following command in a terminal:
flatpak install flathub io.bassi.Amberol
Installation
Product
Exploration
As you can appreciate, Amberol is beautiful and functional, and really simple. Since, to work, it asks us to add a music folder or a music file to play when starting it. And that's it, it doesn't own, or save, any preset folders. Every time we run it, we must always load a folder or music files in the application at the beginning. Y no special functions, such as starting the last previous playback.
Summary
In summary, "Amberol" is a small and functional app of the GNOME CIRCLE project that offers us a simple music player. Therefore, it is ideal for use in minimalist and light GNU/Linux Distros, for use in computers with few resources (CPU, RAM, HDD). And if you don't like this app completely, you can also try one that we will address soon called G4Music, which is very similar in its objectives and functionalities.
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