Nightingale – A Beautiful Cross-Platform Music Player

Hi, everyone! How many of us are still searching for music players? I’m glad to be of service. Today I introduce to you, an app born after the seeming death of another music player, Songbird.

Nightingale is a beautifully designed open source and cross-platform music player built with the aim of playing various types of audio formats while being aesthetically pleasing to behold.

It features a themeable app window with nicely organized panels all around the 4 sides.

Features in Nightingale

  • FOSS: Nightingale is open source and is, therefore, free to download and use.
  • Splash screen
  • Allow add-ons to have localized display panes titles
  • Extendable functionality with the use of Add-on extensions including directory browser, apple keyboard support, Live tweeter, etc.
  • Last.fm support including scrobbling
  • Advanced metadata editor
  • EQ presets
  • Command line playback control
  • A comprehensive online documentation

Most of Nightingale’s functionality is provided by the tons of add-ons that are available for its users e.g. searching Mp3 Skull for tracks, browsing Wikipedia, retrieving song lyrics, etc.

There areĀ even extensions with preset UI setups – this way, you make sure your music player has just the functions you are certain that you need and will use.

Check out the long list of available add-ons here.

Nightingale is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures across the 3 major platforms so you have no compatibility problem to bother about.

On Ubuntu and its derivatives, you can install using PPA as shown.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nightingaleteam/nightingale-release
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt-get install nightingale

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Are you familiar with Nightingale? I noticed it’s not a common mp3 player. Try it out and tell us what you think about it below in the comments section.

Remember that your comments, distastes for apps, and app suggestions are always welcome.

Divine Okoi is a cybersecurity postgrad with a passion for the open-source community. With 700+ articles covering different topics in IT, you can always trust him to inform you about the coolest tech.

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