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Nightingale

Nightingale is a free and powerfull music player for Linux, Windows and Mac based on the ...

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Nightingale is a free and powerfull music player for Linux, Windows and Mac based on the Songbird media player source code. A beautiful interface with a wide range of supported audio formats, all with multi-platform support!

Notable features

Plugins compatible with Songbird (with one modification to the addon)
Multi-platform compatibility with Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Mac OS X v10.5 (x86, x86-64).
Ability to play multiple audio formats, such as MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Apple Lossless and WMA
Ability to play Apple FairPlay-encoded audio on Windows and Mac platforms via hooks into QuickTime (authorization takes place in iTunes)
Ability to play Windows Media DRM audio on Windows platforms
Media files stored on pages viewed in the browser show up as playable files in Nightingale
MP3 file download
Ability to subscribe to MP3 blogs as playlists
Ability to build custom mixes
Ability to scan the user's computer for all audio files and add them to a local library
A configurable and collapsible graphical user interface similar to iTunes, and mini-player mode
Keyboard shortcuts and media keyboard support
Last.fm integration via a plugin, complete with love/hate buttons
Insound.com and HypeMachine integration
Microsoft MTP compatible device support
Ability to edit and save metadata tags
Gapless playback & ReplayGain
Watch folders
Media importing / exportings (from and to iTunes)
Automatic Library Files Organization... More Info »

Links to official Nightingale sites

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Features

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Gapless Playback Integrated Web Browser Skinnable Add a feature

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Nightingale was added by tabakis in Dec 2011 and the latest update was made in Aug 2017. The list of alternatives was updated Dec 2017 There is a history of all activites on Nightingale in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Nightingale or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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Nightingale is discontinued. Find alternatives in the list below or click here for more info

Last update was on January 12, 2014 for version 1.12.1 - https://blog.getnightingale.com/2014/01/12/announcing-nightingale-1-12-1/

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