Sayonara Player

Just have a look at the Downloads page. Last update on December, 31 2017

If you have ideas, merge requests, bug fixes you are welcome to take part in developing.
Sayonara has grown and I don't have as much time as a few years ago. If you would like to enhance your C++, Qt and/or QML skills and want to participate, just use the forum or write an email.

If you don't have own ideas but you are searching for a programming hobby, I also have enough ideas myself for which I don't find time at the moment. And believe me, those topics are really interesting.

I am always looking for translators, designers and web designers, too. Every help is appreciated.

Sayonara is a small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, supported by the Qt framework. It uses GStreamer as audio backend. Sayonara is open source and uses the GPLv3 license. One of Sayonara's goals is intuitive and easy usablility. Currently, it is only available for Linux.

Although Sayoanra can be considered as a lightweight player, it holds a lot of features in order to organize even big music collections.

Managing your library

You can manage your library by artists, albums, genres or file paths. Sayonara contains a sophisticated tag editor helping you to keep your collection clean. You can hold multiple playlists simultaneously, save/rename/delete or export them to common playlist file formats. There are even more complex library plugins like Soundcloud or SomaFM support.

Plugins

In addition, there are some useful plugins helping to enhance your comfort while listening. Some interisting plugins are the equalizer, a speed/pitch control, a crossfader, bookmarks for tracks and a broadcasting function.

Webstreams and Podcasts

You can record all tracks that are streamed from the internet and which are automatically tagged. When listening to ordinary webstreams, a history of all played tracks is displayed. If webstreams or podcasts contain some chapter information, Sayonara also uses this information in order to provide fast jumping within these tracks.

Conclusion

Most of those features are known from the more heavyweight and well known audio players. But in contrast to most of them the main focus during developing Sayonara has been performance, low CPU usage and low memory consumption.

So Sayonara is a great alternative to players like Rhythmbox, Clementine or Amarok. Those who miss Winamp for Linux should give Sayonara a try. However, every user has special requirements and own habits, so it's always a matter of taste.

To all people who

• maintain packages for various distributions
• write articles about Sayonara
• create youtube videos
• create translations
• donate
• file bug reports or feature requests

Without you I'd never come this far and without you no one would be aware of Sayonara. You do a great job! Thank you!

For bug reports or feature requests please use the Forum.

Sayonara is currently available in 13 languages.
A list of languages, the current translation state and a tutorial how to complete or add translation files for Sayonara can be found at the Translations page.

Linux packages, source code and a link to the Git repository are available in the Downloads section. For compile instructions please visit the Forum