Browsing through the vast number of applications hosted on Github , I was pleased to discover a fast audio player for Linux called Pogo , which offers various features with significant lightness and execution speed.
Pogo is neither the first nor the last audio player for Linux that has been shared on the blog; we can find a large number of players here with diverse features and for all tastes. Trying them out and deciding which one best suits our needs is quite a pleasant task.
What is Pogo?
Pogo is a simple but fast open source audio player for Linux, developed in Python by Jendrik seipp using as a basis the known Decibel Audio Player to which it combines with the technologies of GTK + and GStreamer.
This player is focused on playing music in a simple way, that is, locating the audio to be played and starting to listen, it does not integrate complex audio organization and labeling features, although it does come equipped with functionalities for grouping audios by album , the display of song covers, an efficient equalizer, a simple interface and excellent compatibility with most of today's audio formats.
This audio player for Linux is designed for those of us who love to listen to music in a simple way, without extra functionalities and with very little resource consumption, but without wasting compatibility with various formats.
How is Pogo installed?
Being developed in python, this player can be installed in any Linux distro without any problem, that is, we must comply with the following dependencies that the developer lists us very adequately:
- Python (> = 3.2): https://www.python.org
- GTK + (> = 3.0): https://www.gtk.org
- GStreamer (> = 1.0): https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org
- Mutage: https://github.com/quodlibet/mutagen
- Python DBus: https://dbus.freedesktop.org
- Pillow: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow
Optionally the following libraries:
- libnotify
- GNOME settings daemon
- GStreamer plugin
Once we have the dependencies installed, we need to clone the tool's github repository, and then compile and run this fast audio player, the commands to execute to achieve these tasks are the following:
$ git clone https://github.com/jendrikseipp/pogo.git
$ cd pogo/
$ sudo make install
$ pogoI hope that this player is to your liking and that you tell us your impressions, in the same way, you can recommend some other player to try it and share our impressions.