14 DAY TRIAL // The GNOME development team has released the third snapshot of the upcoming GNOME 3.24 desktop environment, due for release next year on March 22, and it includes a new unstable build of GNOME Music, versioned 3.23.3.
At the very end of last week, long-time GNOME developer Georges Basile Stavracas Neto wrote an interesting blog post about the future of the GNOME Music app, a music player distributed as part of the GNOME Stack, from where it results that the open-source software project needs a total revamp.
And from the looks of it, future releases of GNOME Music promise to offer users a reliable audio playback and music library organizer tool that might just rival some of the popular music players that exist on the market for Linux-based operating systems, such as Rhythmbox or Clementine.
"We probably may be overloading the Backend class, but this new architecture will give us some more flexibility to implement new data providers, sync online accounts data, and whatever else we need," reveals Georges Basile Stavracas Neto. "I already started working on this move with the Playlists code."
GNOME Music 3.23.3 is out now with various improvements
Development of GNOME Music 3.24 is currently ongoing, and this will be the first major revamp of the application. GNOME Music 3.23.3 is now the latest development release, which switches the app to use Grilo media discovery and browsing framework for storing metadata, and introduces a redesigned Starring widget.
GNOME Music 3.23.3 also adds various DistListBox improvements and completes the migration to Tracker async calls. A handful of bugs reported by users since the previous development snapshot have been addressed as well, and the Russian, German, and Hungarian language translations were updated.
However, there's a long road until GNOME Music 3.24 starts to take shape and become your favorite music player, but you can get an early taste right now if you download the GNOME Music 3.23.3 unstable version and compile it for your GNU/Linux distribution. Keep in mind, though, that this is a pre-release version and might contain bugs.