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  • Author: Tobias Rundström
  • Latest version: 0.4.0
  • Homepage: (this page)
  • Development language: C++
  • User interface: Qt4
  • Screenshots: See below

Intro

Esperanza is a client written with C++ / Qt4 and aims to be cross-platform goodness for everyone. The client is written by Tobias Rundström.

Please see the Roadmap for new and upcoming features.

Features

  • Sleek, uncomplicated UI (screen)
  • Albumart in the playlist (screen)
  • Medialib search window (screen)
  • Medialib browse window
  • Strong focus on keyboard handling
  • Growl support on MacOSX (screen)
  • Server browser (with mDNS support) (screen)
  • Customization support (screen)
  • Windows support (screen)
  • Mini-mode (screen)
  • Last.fm browser

News

ChangeLog (will be updated with any version)

Esperanza 0.4.0 (2007-08-13)

Finally 0.4.0 is released. Thanks for all help finding bugs and testing.

Download.

Esperanza 0.4.0rc1 (2007-08-01)

A new Release Candidate is up. Please test and report bugs.

Download.

Esperanza 0.3.0 (2007-04-20)

Release is up.

ChangeLog.

Download.

Esperanza 0.3.0rc1 (2007-04-10)

This is the first release candidate for the 0.3.0 that probably will happen together with DrJekyll. Please test this. But be aware that it only works with DrI+WIP+TEST4.

ChangeLog.

Download.

Esperanza 0.2.2 (2006-12-01)

Early Christmas present, Esperanza 0.2.2 is released. It's just a accumulated features / bugfixes release. This release required a new XMMS2D (DrHouse).

ChangeLog.

Download.

Esperanza 0.2.1 (2006-11-10)

Esperanza 0.2.1 is released. Just bugfixes and small additions. See the ChangeLog. And download: here

Esperanza 0.2.0 (2006-11-07)

New version with a lot of news. Download here. Observe that it now requires Qt4.2.x

Esperanza 0.1.1 (2006-11-01)

Missing files in 0.1 makes me release 0.1.1, same place as before.

Esperanza 0.1 (2006-11-01)

0.1 is released today. You can download the release (source) here: http://people.xmms2.org/~tru/esperanza/ and MacOSX binaries from the same URL. OBSERVE that this is not XMMS2, just the Esperanza client!

Install and build

Source

Releases can be found at http://people.xmms2.org/~tru/esperanza/ and the latest devel can be found in XMMS2 git tree. Take a look at the info about git usage if you're new to git.

Dependencies

  • XMMS2
    • XMMS2 C++ bindings, which needs boost.
  • Qt 4.2 or newer
  • dns_sd (bonjour) for mDNS support

Build

Download tarball, extract it, run configure and then make. That should produce the binary.

For windows see here: Windows Build Instructions

Bugtracker

Report bugs and request features in the XMMS2 bugtracker.