GNOME 48 Expands Core Apps With New Audio Player
Quoting: GNOME 48 Expands Core Apps With New Audio Player - OMG! Ubuntu —
Per a recent merge request, Decibels graduates from GNOME Incubator to GNOME Core Apps as part of GNOME 48, making the software something GNOME recommends downstream Linux distributions include to give users a fully-featured GNOME experience.
You may be familiar with or even using Decibels already. I wrote about the app in late 2023, and it’s been available to install from Flathub for almost as long.
For anyone not familiar with it, Decibels is a no-frills audio player designed for the GNOME desktop (but can run on any DE). Its sole purpose is to play back audio files, be it music, podcasts, lecture notes, sound effects, etc.
Linux Magazine:
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Gnome 48 Debuts New Audio Player » Linux Magazine
Whenever I install a distribution with the Gnome desktop, one of the first things I do is install a better audio player as the default has always been pretty bland.
With the upcoming Gnome 48, that all changes thanks to Decibels. This no-frills audio player does one thing – plays audio files – and does it with a stripped-down UI and a bare minimum of features. Decibels is notan app to manage your music but an app to play your music.
The Decibels feature set is pretty slim at the moment. It includes audio playback, waveform display, a scrubbable seek bar, speed control, volume slider, and 10 and 30 seconds forward/backward buttons. You won't even find a preferences window or any customizations available. Decibels is stripped down and simple. You can't add multiple songs for playback, as Decibels isn't capable of queuing files; Decibels is one file at a time and nothing more.
Linuxiac:
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GNOME with Yet Another Controversial Decision
Let me start by saying this loud and clear: this article doesn’t question the quality of the Decibels audio player. I’m convinced it’s a great piece of software. Instead, this is about something else—the GNOME developers’ decision to choose it (among a wide range of similar alternatives) as one of the desktop environment’s core apps.