Ario is a GTK2 client for MPD (Music player daemon). The interface used to browse the library is inspired by Rhythmbox but Ario aims to be much lighter and faster.
It runs on Linux and Microsoft Windows.

14 Jun 2008

A new version of Ario has been released. This new version mainly fix the different bugs found in Ario 1.0 and implement some features asked by users. I would like to thank users that opened bugs reports, features requests or that sent me their feedbacks by e-mail. It really help me to improve Ario!

• Bugs:
  • Debian Bug - #480361 mpd autodetection fails to find 127.0.0.1:6600
  • Fix a problem of IPv4/IPv6 mix in avahi
  • Fix a bug with big covers
  • Fix a bug when user press space in the search form
  • Fix the local cover detection for automatic download
  • Fix encoding problem for lyricwiki
  • Fix a bug with connect/disconnect
  • Add support of different languages in windows version.
  • Limit the width of covers in cover selection window.
  • [ 1958578 ] doubleclick on column header in search result adds song
  • [ 1952136 ] Local cover search starting from the track directory
  • [ 1968010 ] Duplicate albums when browsing by artist (Windows version)
  • [ 1968014 ] How to change language on windows version?
• Features:
  • Add similar artists (from last.fm) in playlist
  • Add the year in the album/cover column
  • Add albums covers as icon for drag and drop.
  • Add playlist customisation options (show/hide columns, reorder columns...)
  • Add new columns in playlist.
  • Add the possibility to show/hide some panels or the playlist.
  • Add a new command : "Add to playlist and play"
  • Add an option to sort albums by year
  • [ 1949192 ] "Minimize to tray on close" option
  • [ 1952903 ] Duration format (hh:mm:ss instead of mm:ss)
  • [ 1945679 ] Dynamic playlist with last fm (not completely)
  • [ 1965376 ] Playlist autoscroll
  • [ 1964508 ] UI customization
  • [ 1952136 ] Local cover search starting from the track directory
• Technical changes:
  • Add libsoup2.4 support (used by default instead of version 2.2)
  • Use gcrypt md5 function
  • New translations : Czech, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Swedish and Irish.

Go to the Download page to try it now!

13 Apr 2008

After several months of development, the first major version of Ario has been released.

The main changes since the last version are :

• Plugins support with already several plugins:
  • A Wikipedia plugin
  • A file system browser plugin.
  • An audioscrobbler plugin
  • A multimedia keys plugin
  • "Web Radio" source becomes a plugin
• Complete reorganisation of the cover and lyrics systems to have different covers providers and be able to activate/desactivate and reorder them.
• Automatic download of album covers when a song is played
• Add the possibility to search for similar artists on last.fm.
• Remove the dependency on gconf. Add a new config serialization engine (in XML).
• Automatic reconnection when profile changes
• Add a progress bar when Ario connects to MPD.
• Add different icons depending on playing state
• Add the possibility to get album covers from music directory if mpd is on localhost
• Add a "go to playing song" command
• Microsoft Windows version
• Add new translations: Catalan, English (GB). Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian
• Performance enhancement and bug fixes.

Go to the Download page to try it now!

15 Feb 2008

The fourth release of Ario is out.

The main changes are :

• New artworks.
• New functionality : Songs and albums properties.
• Add MPD statistics in preferences.
• Add the possibility to enable/disable audio outputs.
• Add a "lazy mode": the synchronization with MPD is disabled when Ario is hidden.
• New sexier tooltip on tray icon.
• Performance enhancements and bugs fixes.
• New translations.

Go to the Download page to try it now!