Sonata is a lightweight GTK+ music client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD). Sonata aims to be efficient (no toolbar, main menu, or statusbar), user-friendly, and clean.

Sonata is licensed by the GPL and is free software. It has been forked from the Pygmy project in order to fix bugs, introduce new features, and proceed down a different path.

Note for Ubuntu users: You will need to setup or use an a music player daemon service, check musicpd.

Here are some key features of "Sonata":

· Expanded and collapsed views
· Automatic remote and local album art
· User-configurable columns
· Automatic fetching of lyrics
· Playlist and stream support
· Support for editing song tags
· Popup notification
· Playlist queue support
· Library and playlist searching
· Audioscrobbler (last.fm) support
· Multiple MPD profiles
· Keyboard friendly
· Support for multimedia keys
· Commandline control

Requirements:

· PyGTK
· gtk+
· Music Player Daemon
· gnome-python-extras
· TagLib
· Python
· ZSI for lyrics support (optional)

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Library artwork caching/displaying improvements
· Lyricwiki screen scraping workaround
· Replace Amazon.com cover art fetching with Rhapsody.com
· Bug: Fix library sorting when adding, e.g., albums to playlist
· Bug: Fix window positioning weirdness when unwithdrawing from systray
· Bug: Fix album being labeled various artists when a duplicate exists
· Bug: Fix album tracks in the info tab being out of order sometimes
· Bug: Show songs with a missing date in info album listing
· Bug: Library icons change after adding stream to playlist
· Bug: Cpu spike, tooltips missing in library search results with gtk 2.16.2