YaRock 0.0.41 Released With New Toolbar And IceCast / ShoutCast Radio Browser

YaRock is a new Qt4 music player designed to provide a nice overview of your music by allowing you to browse your music collection based on the album cover art. We love YaRock here at WebUpd8, especially for it's simplicity and the nice cover art overview it provides, as well as the ability to fetch albums cover art from Last.fm.

YaRock 0.0.41 was released a few days ago, bringing lots of new features / changes:

• New ToolBar with Prev/Next browsing, read only BreadCrumb
• Change (MAJOR) music collection redesign (less memory usage, better performance)
• New ShoutCast / IceCast radio browser
• New favorite radio item (stored into xspf file)
• New add support for remote playlist to be played diectly from radio browser
• New Menu with tree structure and radio file
• New add radio setting for adding/removing specific radio file
• Change core graphic painting method improvement
• Change core thread management improvement
• New internal Database v8 (internal & user playlist file)
• New remote Url and remote playlist support
• New use of QtSingle application module
• New playlist detail view (with up/down and search fonction)
• Changes playlist populator (for remote playlist support)
• New Translation support + translations French, Czech, Spanish

Roberto @ LFFL usually maintains YaRock packages in his PPAs, however the latest YaRock 0.0.41 hasn't been uploaded yet (even though it was released about 4 days ago), so I've used his packaging to build the latest 0.0.41 for Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat.

Download YaRock 0.0.41 (for Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat only!):

• 32bit
• 64bit

YaRock 0.0.41 comes with integrated icecast radio stations but if you want more (including ShoutCast), you can download them via its Qt-Look page. To add them, go to Collection > Collection Settings, on the Radio tab select "Add" and then in the file selection dialog select "All files" instead of just "Radio files" from the drop-down (so you can add shoutcast too) add the radio / shoutcast files you've downloaded.

YaRock 0.0.35 Adds Automatic Cover Art Fetching, Playlists Support

YaRock is a new Qt4 music player designed to provide a nice overview of your music by allowing you to browse your music collection based on the album cover art. And this isn't just about the visuals because YaRock allows you to browse your music in such a way (multiple ways actually) that you won't need to use the search feature anymore (though it has that too).

A new YaRock version (0.0.35) has been released, adding some of the features I was suggesting it should add in our previous YaRock post, like automatic cover art fetching, support to load/save playlist (m3u, pls, xspf) and a new playlist browser as well as other features such as:

• option to get cover from file directory
• simple systray support
• Now playing cover art display simplification

And of course, some bugs in the previous version have been fixed (such as the status bar bug, although the statusbar still doesn't look 100% right).

But there are still a few glitches: make sure you add the extension when saving the playlist or else it won't work. Also, I didn't find an option to load a playlist other than drag and drop or loading playlists from my collection (I had to rescan the collection for that).

What's still missing in YaRock? For me, it's Last.fm/Libre.fm scrobbling and better playlist management. What would you like to see in YaRock?

Download YaRock 0.0.35

LFFL provides Ubuntu .debs for YaRock as usual. Download YaRock 0.0.35:

- Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat:

• 32bit
• 64bit

- Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx:

• 32bit
• 64bit

Or download the YaRock source files @ Qt-Apps.

Thanks as usual to Roberto @ LFFL for the YaRock .deb files.