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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Listen - Just Listen


The tag line of 'Listen' is 'Just Listen' but you can certainly do a lot more than just listening to your music.
'Listen' music player for Gnome is a great way to 'Listen ' to your music.
Get instant artist,album or song information from 'Wikipedia' and discover similar songs from 'LastFm' as you enjoy your music.
Checkout the column right in the middle of the window.It gives you direct access to 'Wikipedia','LastFm'.The 'Context' section of this column maintains three play lists of 'Favorite albums','Favorite songs' and 'Last played songs'.All these play lists are maintained depending on your listening habits.The 'Lyrics' section provides you the lyrics of the current song being played.Data for lyrics can be fetched from lyrc.com.ar or leoslyrics.com.Browse your folders and files from the 'Filesystem' section.


Maintaining album covers with 'Listen' is very simple.Just right click on the album art window to apply a custom album art or find it online.Left click on the window to get an enlarged view of the album art.


Click on the 'View' menu to enable the 'Party mode' or press CTR + H.'Party mode' provides a full screen view of the music player.
To configure 'Listen' ,click on the 'Music' menu and open the 'Preferences' section.If you want a splash screen with the startup then enable it under the 'Startup' section.
To enable the 'LastFm' support,you need to provide your user name and password under the 'Audioscrobbler' tab.'Listen' also provides the visualisation support that can be enabled from the 'Behavior' section under the 'General' tab.


One of the problems that you might encounter with 'Listen' could be that the playback slider might not work.If it works for you,please do let us know.
Install 'Listen' from the 'Synaptic Package Manager'.

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