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cantata

Client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD)

About cantata

Client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD)

This project links 4 native package records across 3 recorded operating-system releases. Compare the retained versions and architectures below, then open the package for your own release.

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Debian 12 (Bookworm): 1 package records; Debian 13 (Trixie): 1 package records; openSUSE Leap 15.6: 2 package records. Catalog coverage diagram, not an application screenshot.cantata: recorded package coverageDebian 12 (Bookworm)1 recordsDebian 13 (Trixie)1 recordsopenSUSE Leap 15.62 records
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Project identity

Project
cantata
Publisher
Not authoritatively mapped
Native package records
4
Operating systems
debian-12, debian-13, opensuse-leap-15-6
License expression
GPL-3.0-only
Metadata completeness
100/100 (not a software quality rating)
Homepage
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Source repository
Open source repository

Source-reported description

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Cantata is a graphical client for MPD, supporting the following features: * Multiple MPD collections. * Customisable layout. * Songs grouped by album in play queue. * Context view to show artist, album, and song information of current track. * Tag editor. * File organizer - use tags to organize files and folders. * Ability to calculate ReplyGain tags * Dynamic playlists. * Online services; Jamendo, Magnatune, SoundCloud, and Podcasts. * Radio stream support - with the ability to search for streams via TuneIn, ShoutCast, or Dirble. * USB-Mass-Storage and MTP device support * Audio CD ripping and playback * Playback of non-MPD songs - via simple in-built HTTP server if connected to MPD via a standard socket, otherwise filepath is sent to MPD. * MPRISv2 DBUS interface. * Basic support for touch-style interface (views are made 'flickable'). * Scrobbling. * Ratings support. Cantata started off as a fork of QtMPC, however, the code (and user interface) is now very different to that of QtMPC. For more detailed information, please refer to the main README.

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Packages by operating system

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Debian 12 (Bookworm)

  1. cantata

    Debian 12 (Bookworm) / sound / source cantata

    2.5.0.ds1-1+b1

    Qt client for the music player daemon (MPD)

    amd64arm64bookworm

Debian 13 (Trixie)

  1. cantata

    Debian 13 (Trixie) / sound

    2.5.0.ds1-4

    Qt client for the music player daemon (MPD)

    amd64arm64trixie

openSUSE Leap 15.6

  1. cantata

    openSUSE Leap 15.6 / Productivity/Multimedia/Sound/Players / source cantata

    2.5.0-bp156.4.7

    Client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD)

    aarch64ppc64les390xx86_64leap-15.6
  2. cantata-lang

    openSUSE Leap 15.6 / System/Localization / source cantata

    2.5.0-bp156.4.7

    Translations for package cantata

    noarchleap-15.6

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