Juk

Juk is audio jukebox.

JuK 3

JuK 3 is part of the KDE 4 Multimedia package. Features include

• Collection list and multiple user defined playlists
• Ability to scan directories to automatically import playlists and music files on start up
• Dynamic Search Playlists that are automatically updated as fields in the collection change.
• A Tree View mode where playlists are automatically generated for sets of albums, artists and genres.
• Playlist history to indicate which files have been played and when.
• Inline search for filtering the list of visible items.
• The ability to guess tag information from the file name or using MusicBrainz online lookup.
• File renamer that can rename files based on the tag content.
• ID3v1, ID3v2 and Ogg Vorbis tag reading and editing support (via TagLib).

Links

• Juk on kde.org
• The JuK Handbook

JuK 2.2

JuK 2.2 is part of the KDE 3.4 KDE Multimedia package. JuK packages are distributed with almost all current Linux and many Unix distributions.

Features

• An easy to use, playlist and metadata focused interface with several playlist types:
  • Collection List where the entire database of music is shown and automatically updated based on folders the user has indicated contain their music collection
  • Search Playlists that allow for powerful combinations of search criteria to produce dynamically updated playlists
  • Dynamic Lists which are produced by using multiple selection in the playlist selector and are a union of two or more playlists
  • Folder Playlists which represent a single folder in the file system and are updated automatically based on its contents
  • History Playlist which stores a history of the what the user has played
  • Play Queue, an enhancement of the popular Play Next funtionality of previous versions that enables a manegable upcoming queue of items to be played
  • Player and tag editor for several audio formats:
  • MP3 (MPEG Layer 3 Audio)
  • Ogg Vorbis
  • FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
  • MPC (MusePack)
• Multiple audio output backends:
  • aRts (Default)
  • GStreamer 0.8
  • aKode
• Inline search for quick filtering of the currently visible items
• MusicBrainz integration for file identification on over the Internet
• File renamer that renames files based on the tag content
• A powerful tag editor that works seemlessly with all supported music formats
• CD burning support via the popular K3b tool
• Visually attractive, but unobtrusive track announcements
• A Now Playing heads-up style title bar featuring the album cover, links to show more from the playing artist or album and a brief history of previously played items
• Cover art management via Google Image Search
• Random play including Album Random Play for randomly playing complete albums