Beatbox: Plugins has landed!

And yes, the long awaited Beatbox has finally include Plugins!

For the moment, only lyrics and Last.FM plugin is available, though it may be more than that in the future

As you may notice, the shuffle and repeat buttons has been reverted back to the bottom bar which makes it look consistent and uncluttered again

Stay tuned

Beatbox: UI Update

Beatbox has recently updated a bit in UI as well as some features.

The margin and size of each album in album view is wider and smaller.

The shuffle and repeat button has been placed next top the play button with drop down menu, which is easier to access and to see

The preference menu has been overhaul quite a bit, with a new plugins menu (at the moment of writing, there is no plugin available)

Stay tuned

Beatbox 0.6

Beatbox 0.6 is now released !

It has been updated with a minor UI changes as well as some bug fix

- Shuffle, repeat and equalizer is now on the top bar

- The cover art will be shown next to the song timeline

- Music in the background, you can now close the window while music is on play or quit it by clicking exit

- Beatbox allows you to set as default music player

- Faster app launch time

- Devices can be eject from the sidebar

You can install Beatbox from this ppa

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sgringwe/beatbox

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install beatbox

Beatbox - UI Changes

Beatbox as we know will be collaborating with Noise developer to bring in some of the features from Noise into Beatbox

Beatbox recently has been updated with a few candies originated from Noise, which making it looks much better and uncluttered 

Noise album view in Beatbox

Updated pop up window

Beatbox is quite stable for daily use, if you wanted to get your hands around, you may install from this ppa

Sound Menu - Minor Update

The sound menu undergo a minor update

It will display the play, back and forward button although the music player is not running

Beatbox 0.5 and surprises

Few hours ago, Beatbox 0.5 was released fresh from the oven from Beatbox PPA

Here are some changes made:

A new Now Playing view which displays artist's biodata, album and song info, lyrics, as well as list of songs from the album and similar artists tag.

If a video is being selected to be played, Now Playing view will show the video instead of infos

Some other features and improvements are:

- Duplicate remove which scans the library and remove duplication

- Easy translation; almost all of Beatbox is translatable

- Hasty import, much more speedier library import and no pause

- Embedded album art loads faster

- Unity integration, such as quicklist and progress bar

- Volume in equalizer

- Saved/Remembered last view

- Bug fixes on crashes

Another big announcement is that, Victor Eduardo, the previous developer of Beatbox and now the lead developer of Noise will be rejoining into the Beatbox development team to merge Victor's changes from Noise into Beatbox for 0.6. We can anticipate an even awesome music player when Beatbox hits 0.7 !

Changelogs & announcement here.

Beatbox - Progress-Plank Intergration

Starting from a few updates back then, Beatbox adds the intergration with Plank in showing the process  and progress of importing your library into Beatbox itself

Kinda nifty

Beatbox - An overhaul

Although Beatbox will not be included in elementary os, I guess it is still relevant to post news about this great music player as it was once an elementary app

From the recent update, it now has a button where it will display all info about your current playing song, lyrics, the artists top song and also album

Sleek

Unlike Noise, Beatbox has currently drop the right sidebar that displays song info

We might hardly get this new feature in Noise because the reason the split happens is due to the different philosophy and idea behind developing both music players

You can install Beatbox from this ppa 

Beatbox vs Noise

Beatbox, a forked music player from elementary os had been updated to 0.4

Though there is not much of differences between Beatbox and Noise, both only differs by:

- Music view

- Search bar

- and the name of course

Though at this time, Beatbox's search bar looks much more sleeker than Noise as it has a drop down menu which shows common element in your search keyword

Watch the differences here:

And here is the video of Noise in action