GNOME 48 Desktop Introducing An Official Audio Player: Decibels
The modern GNOME desktop hasn't had a core application to playback audio files although many different audio/multimedia players exist. But now for the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop release, there is now a promoted core app for audio playback: Decibels.
The GNOME Decibels project has been promoted to being a Core App for handling playback of audio files on the GNOME desktop. Decibels will be branded as the GNOME "Audio Player" and address a shortcoming ever since Totem stopped handling audio files on the GNOME desktop long ago. Up to now Decibels had been developed as a GNOME Incubator project.
Per this release engineering ticket, Decibels is now promoted to being a GNOME core app.
Though the programming language of choice may lead to GNOME Decibels not widely appearing on some Linux distributions in the near-term... As a rather unique choice, Decibels is written in TypeScript. Decibels though does use the GTK4 toolkit and libadwaita. But the use of TypeScript has been expressed as a potential near-term blocker for getting GNOME Decibels within the Debian/Ubuntu repositories and possibly elsewhere. In any case there is a Flatpak of the Decibels app for those interested.
Trying out the Flatpak version of the Decibels app myself today, it works and it's indeed a very simple audio player. So look for this official audio player app as part of the core apps for the GNOME 48 release in March.
The GNOME Decibels project has been promoted to being a Core App for handling playback of audio files on the GNOME desktop. Decibels will be branded as the GNOME "Audio Player" and address a shortcoming ever since Totem stopped handling audio files on the GNOME desktop long ago. Up to now Decibels had been developed as a GNOME Incubator project.
Per this release engineering ticket, Decibels is now promoted to being a GNOME core app.
Though the programming language of choice may lead to GNOME Decibels not widely appearing on some Linux distributions in the near-term... As a rather unique choice, Decibels is written in TypeScript. Decibels though does use the GTK4 toolkit and libadwaita. But the use of TypeScript has been expressed as a potential near-term blocker for getting GNOME Decibels within the Debian/Ubuntu repositories and possibly elsewhere. In any case there is a Flatpak of the Decibels app for those interested.
Trying out the Flatpak version of the Decibels app myself today, it works and it's indeed a very simple audio player. So look for this official audio player app as part of the core apps for the GNOME 48 release in March.