Quod Libet (software)

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Quod Libet
Developer(s) Quod Libet Team [1]
Initial release30 October 2004;19 years ago (2004-10-30) [2]
Stable release
4.6.0 [3]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 22 August 2023
Repository github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/
Written in Python (PyGObject)
Operating system Windows, macOS, Linux
Size
  • Windows: 36.6 MB
  • macOS: 41.0 MB
  • Linux: 4.23 MB
Type Audio player
License GPL-2.0-or-later [4]
Website quodlibet.readthedocs.org

Quod Libet is a cross-platform free and open-source audio player, tag editor and library organizer. The main design philosophy is that the user knows how they want to organize their music best; the software is therefore built to be fully customizable and extensible using regular expressions and boolean logic. Quod Libet is based on GTK and written in Python, and uses the Mutagen tagging library.

Contents

Quod Libet is very scalable, able to handle libraries with tens of thousands of songs. It provides a full feature set including support for Unicode, regular expression searching, key bindings to multimedia keys, fast but powerful tag editing, and a variety of plugins.

Quod Libet is available on most Linux distributions, macOS and Windows, requiring only PyGObject, Python, and an Open Sound System (OSS), ALSA or JACK compatible audio device. The XFCE desktop ISO image provided by the Debian project installs Quod Libet as the default audio player. [5]

Quod Libet's tag-editing and library organization features are also available through a standalone program, Ex Falso, which is based on the same code and libraries as Quod Libet.

Features

The tag editor interface, used by both Quod Libet and Ex Falso, allows any tag to be changed as well as any file to be renamed or moved. Ex Falso Screenshot.png
The tag editor interface, used by both Quod Libet and Ex Falso, allows any tag to be changed as well as any file to be renamed or moved.

Audio playback

Tag editing

Audio library

User interface

Screenshot demonstrating Quod Libet's capabilities to organize and display audio files with custom tags. Quodlibet-screenshot-custom-display.jpg
Screenshot demonstrating Quod Libet's capabilities to organize and display audio files with custom tags.

File formats

Include MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, ALAC, Musepack, MOD/XM/IT, WMA, Wavpack, MPEG-4 AAC

Unix-like control and query mechanisms

Plugins

Quod Libet is currently bundled with over 80 Python-based plugins, including:

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "Quod Libet Team page" . Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  2. ↑ "Changelog".
  3. ↑ "Release 4.6.0". 22 August 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  4. ↑ "Quod Libet License page" . Retrieved 21 May 2013.
  5. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 5 October 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ↑ "Quod Libet feature page" . Retrieved 21 May 2013.
  7. ↑ "Quod Libet extending guide".
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