Pragha Media player is both fast and familiar

Everyone loves music players and we’ve certainly had a lot of feature of late – The google looking MiniTunes, ‘ghost of Amarok 1.4′ Clementine & the stylish Banshee-Meego. Pragha is ‘yet another music player’ that’s been kicking around for a while now and, I thought, time for a bit of a mention here on el OMG!…

Pragha music player was designed from the ground up to be both light and feature complete – a claim it most certainly lives up to. The lightweight GTK+ music player is derived from the now-defunct Consonance media player.

Whilst Pragha it’s not a player you’ve probably heard of before it is certainly one that deserve a once over if you’re a fan of Amarok-style tree-browsing.

Features

No music player is worth it’s salt if it’s lacking in the features department, so what does Pragha offer? Quite a bit…

Library management using the sqlite3 database engine
Queue list
Multiple views
Notification bubbles on track change
Tag editing
mp3, ogg, flac, modplug, wav and Audio CD support
Last.fm scrobbling
Playlist management (M3U Exporting)
Global keybindings
Displays album art when playing track/audio CD

There is no cross-fading, gapless playback or ReplayGain support. Not deal breakers for some, but likely vital omissions for others.

Download

Ubuntu 10.04 users can find the most recently-release version in handy .deb files thanks to Ferramosca Roberto’s PPA: –

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