Sayonara Player

• Comment: Their own website and blogs are not suitable reliable sources. Theroadislong (talk) 17:13, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

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Sayonara Player

Developer(s)	Lucio Carreras
Initial release	2011 (2011)
Stable release	1.5.1-stable5 / 29 August 2019 (2019-08-29)
Repository	gitlab.com/luciocarreras/sayonara-player
Written in	C++
Operating system	Linux, BSD
Type	Audio player
License	GNU General Public License Version 3
Website	sayonara-player.com

Sayonara Player is a free Audioplayer for Linux and BSD. It's developed by Lucio Carreras from Germany, written in C++ and using the Qt widget toolkit as well as Multimedia framework GStreamer.

Characteristics

Installation

Sayonara can generally be installed under Linux with the distribution-specific package management. There are help instructions available on the website of the player for some Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora and Arch Linux.

Userface

After installation, the Sayonara player has a graphical user interface that represents an intuitive alternative for Linux systems in terms of structure and operability through numerous analogies to the Windows players Winamp and Foobar2000. The window can basically be divided into the player itself – where controls, track data and the cover can be seen –, the playlist and the music library. The presentation of the music library is in parts comparable with the Winamp library, a tabular view of the artists and albums as well as an overview with cover preview is possible. Unlike some other music players, several playlists can be managed.

Database

In particular, large music collections, which the player manages in one or more databases, should be manageable without any problems, thus pursuing one of the developer's targets to create an intuitive and easy-to-use player. In the test, the database reads 40,000 FLAC files faster than Winamp, but also neglects tag field information beyond the usual scope of standard. The search time is also somewhat shorter for 40,000 FLAC files – results are displayed either as quickly as possible during entering or after confirmation with enter key.

Comparison with other audio players

In comparison to Guayadeque Music Player, which achieved a very good average user rating at Sourceforge in 2014, this development is being actively continued. Only a few players support large databases at high speed and can manage multiple playlists (the latter is not supported by Winamp, for example). In contrast to Audacious and Rhythmbox, the user interface (e.g. the playlist management) and the database are easier to handle and yet are just as functional. A dark skin is included. In the direct database comparison to Winamp it is noticeable that not all metadata is read in and some functions are missing, e.g. which songs were played how often and when last. However, a dynamic playlist creation is supported, where songs of similar artists or music styles are automatically added. The integration of web services like internet streams and Last.fm scrobbling show, that the audio player is not limited to playing local files or pure offline use.

In April 2019 Theis Klußmeier from Hamburg, Germany, made a comparison between 16 Linux audio players on blog.tice.de. The basis is a music collection of over 10,000 titles. The Sayonara Player is highlighted as "definitely worth seeing" and the player is declared as convincing.

Scope of functions

Some functions of the player are:

• Music playback with Crossfader
• Music database with search function, cover display and genre filter
• Administration of several databases
• Managing multiple playlists
• Last.fm Scrobbling: Automatic addition to the playlist (so-called smart mode, i.e. additional songs are added automatically)
• Access to web streams and podcasts
• (automatic) cover display and support for integrated covers
• Metadata Editor
• Equalizer
• Frequency spectrum and level display
• Display of lyrics (retrievable from different web services)
• Translations available for various languages