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Cactus Jukebox is an audio player and music organizing tool. It searches given folders for music files and shows them in a database.

The main focus is on usability and speed. Cactus Jukebox still runs smoothly with 15GB of music files on an old computer like a P3 @ 500MHz. There's no reason to take a dual core machine just to listen to your music.
Another nice feature: You can also syncronize your music collection with a mobile player device(USB).

In near future Cactus Jukebox will become a complete suite for organizing, editing, listening music and rip/burn CDs.

Take a look at the screenshots to get an impression about cactus.





Something about the history of Cactus Jukebox:

Cactus started in 2004 as a GUI tool for tagging my mp3 collection. Over the times I collected more and more music on my harddisk and I completely lost control. Unhappily at this time there existed no linux program that organizes, and sorts my music so it becomes easier to play a special song or to create a playlist for a evening with friends.
So from time to time I expanded my tagger tool to an audio player with an integrated database.

Nowadays there are some other, similiar tools that nearly do the same things and more. But they are either unusable slow like Amarok or I just don't like their kind of usage like Rhythmbox or JuK.

Another really important feature for me, that as far as I know nearly none of all the linux players around can do, is the sync of your music files with a mobile player. So you always see which of your files are on your mobile player and which not and you can easily add or remove files directly from Cactus Jukebox.