Quod Libet (software)

Quod Libet is a graphical audio player for Linux that can manage music files, Internet radio and audio feeds, and play. Quod Libet is based on the GStreamer multimedia system and is using Python and GTK as free software was written. His main concern is to give the user the largest possible freedom and flexibility to access their media library; it is also the name (Latin quod Libet = what's popular ) is derived.

Description

Basic Functions

Quod Libet is to define a play list by a regular expression without any problems and query the contents of any metadata tags allowed. It is optimized in terms of scalability, so that self-adjust during operation with several thousand pieces of music no problems.

To play audio files and streams Quod Libet used the library GStreamer. What audio formats are supported depends on the GStreamer plugins installed in the system. Delivery of the popular distributions generally include the free Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC lossless Opus. In the presence of the modules for some proprietary formats Quod Libet offers full support for MP3, MP4 - AAC, Musepack, SPC, True Audio, WAV, Wavpack, Windows Media Audio, Speex and Tracker modules.

Special

Since version 2.2 Quod Libet and Ex Falso additional metadata editor also runs under Microsoft Windows. The names of the two programs together form the Latin principle ex falso quodlibet of classical logic.