cantata-next is a fork of the now-defunct cantata project. This fork aims to integrate well with KDE on Linux.
Note: Windows and macOS are no longer suported.
A graphical (Qt5) client for MPD, supporting the following features:
- Supports Linux
- Multiple MPD collections.
- Highly customisable layout.
- Songs (optionally) grouped by album in play queue.
- Context view to show artist, album, and song information of current track.
- Simple tag editor.
- File organizer - use tags to organize files and folders.
- Ability to calculate ReplyGain tags.
- Dynamic playlists.
- Smart Playlists.
- Online services; Jamendo, Magnatune, SoundCloud, and Podcasts.
- Radio stream support - with the ability to search for streams via TuneIn, ShoutCast, or Dirble.
- USB-Mass-Storage and MTP device support.
- Audio CD ripping and playback.
- Playback of non-MPD songs - via simple in-built HTTP server.
- MPRISv2 DBUS interface.
- Ratings support.
- Partitions support.