Kagu Media Player v1.0.10-3

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Stable Quality
Downloads: 6354
Votes: 46
Free & Open Source license
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Kagu is a playlist based music player with A2DP and maemoscrobbler support, finger friendly inertial scrolling, theme engine, and intelligent screen/battery usage optimizations.

Updated 2007-12-17 22:05 UTC
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Authors Jesse Guardiani, Kemal Hadimli, Levi Bard

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Wow...I seem to have lost functionality with this new update. Half the files I played in the previous version won't play at all anymore. And it's slow as a dog on my n800. Takes several seconds for virtual button presses to register. I think I'm going back to Canola for a while until this player becomes usable.

2007-11-21 18:16 UTC
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Good really showy with the kinetic scrolling and awesome if you add A2DP.

2007-11-13 03:29 UTC
Tony Green
Karma: 229
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A very nice media player. And now that it's possible to play Oggs as well, even better. I like the way they've gone for a GUI design that's completely different to any other. This makes it a little counter-intuitive to start with, but it's easy to learn.

Just a few minor problems that stop it being five star for me:

  • It doesn't save its position in the playlist after re-starting.

  • It seems to lose contact with the sound device if something else (say the media player) uses it. So it's necessary to re-load Kagu to get it to play again.

  • It would be nice if it could load album cover artwork from the directory containing the files. At the moment it can load artwork from the Web, but if you have a collection of obscure music like mine, it guesses badly and loads very strange art.

  • Its volume control manipulates a different part of the mixer to the one manipulated by the sound settings applet. This makes it difficult to get the volume right in other applications after using Kagu.

2007-11-09 18:54 UTC
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Nice music player but very slow in the 770

2007-11-09 11:07 UTC
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Nice start, but it would be nice if I could play directly from a playlist without having to add the contents to the "Now Playing" list. If there's nothing in the NP list, I don't get the play button.

And because it's slow to respond, I ended up with several copies of each song in the NP playlist because I wasn't sure if the app was registering my finger presses.

2007-11-05 23:58 UTC
Karl Petermichl
Karma: 41
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great music player, kinetic interface, extra scroll bars, nice album art integration, playlist management: what more could you ask for?

2007-11-05 21:47 UTC
Itai Kaitano
Karma: 223
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This has become my go to music player replacing Canola and whenever I want to show some N800 iCandy to an iPhone user this is a very impressive app. Works great.

2007-11-05 21:24 UTC
Jan Jansen
Karma: 79
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My favourite music player, kinetic scrolling, finger friendly, ... !

2007-11-05 20:15 UTC
Aniello Del Sorbo
Karma: 860
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I like it a lot, but needs to be somehow polished visually. I gave some suggestions on the ITT thread.

2007-11-05 11:58 UTC
Nick Bettison
Karma: 25
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Finger Friendly Apps are the way forward, love it! :D

2007-10-05 11:11 UTC
Gerard S
Karma: 45
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I love it.It's my main media player. The new release is wonderful!

2007-09-27 04:05 UTC
Chuck Steel
Karma: 8
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I was happy with the previous release of Kagu but still looking for another player. After the 1.0.8 release, though, I'm going to be using nothing else. This is becoming a great player. The screenshots on this page really need updated, since the new screens look fantastic. The only thing missing right now is a donations button on the Kagu homepage!

2007-09-20 02:00 UTC
Mari Donkers
Karma: 11
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Impressive improvement with the 1.0.8 upgrade.

Everything works perfectly now!

My favorite player (Nokia n800 user).

2007-09-19 06:50 UTC
Mari Donkers
Karma: 11
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Playback is excellent! I almost never experience annoying hiccups, even if I put the player in the background and continue with e.g. browsing the Internet.

The new playlist based GUI takes some getting used to but I like it already.

In the kagu-scanner.py source file I had to increas the maximum search depth from 6 to 100 to make it find all my media files (have a deeply nested directory structure). Any reason for the limitation to such a shallow depth (6)?

2007-09-10 22:07 UTC
Larry Battraw
Karma: 48
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This player is a very interesting emerging player but to place it ahead of such greats as Canola, it'd be nice to have two features: bookmarking (resume) within songs, and seeking. I use it primarily for podcasts and it's frustrating not being able to seek (or pick up at the last point) in a podcast.

2007-08-20 18:01 UTC
Tony Maro
Karma: 215
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I love it! The kinetic scrolling is awesome. I wish it would crossfade between songs, though.

2007-08-20 16:28 UTC
James Sparenberg
Karma: 50
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Works well, layout was very nice. But.. on my n800 it couldn't display all of my mp3's. I did detect them, I saw it detecting them. But for reasons unknown it wouldn't display them as an available mp3 to play.

2007-08-18 03:47 UTC

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