Meet Budgie! A New Lightweight and Elegant Media Player

Liron

2014-07-30 22:26:47

Are you looking for a media player that can play both music and videos? well they sure seems to be rare nowadays (the decent ones), yet Budgie is a minimal media player that can do just that and more...

Budgie is a very lightweight, minimalistic media-player that can play both audio and video files and look sexy while at it. It has options to sort views by: albums, songs or videos. It can also automatically pull songs / videos from any [configurable] directory you choose. Moreover, it has random / shuffle function plus repeat mode - to repeat the playlist you're listening too. Search and full screen mode are also integrated into the player and are part of its basic functions. However, as said above, Budgie is a very minimalistic media-player which apparently still found at the beginning of its way. All those features, which I'll sum up in a list below for convenience sake, are basically all there's to it, which for some people who looks for a concise, practical and sexy-looking player are exactly enough. But for others, namely, those who seek for a fully fledged media-player with tons of configurations and features, Budgie would probably won't be enough. Aside from that, you'll probably be interested in knowing that Budgie media-player is actually now part of a complete, written from scratch, desktop environment also called Budgie, which is part of a distro called Evolve OS. Both the D.E. and the media player are developed by the same author - Ikey Doherty, and according to him the D.E. aspires to maintain close relations to upstream GNOME project.

Budgie Highlights Features

Here's a short video demonstration of the D.E. which I intend to cover in the near future:

Download & Install Budgie

Budgie has a prebuilt packages designated for a number of distros, all are referenced on Budgie's home page.