Last Updated on August 11, 2021
In Operation
Let’s start with Silverjuke’s interface. There’s 3 main views: Album view, Cover view, and List view. The Album view is shown in the image below.
This is the list view.
The interface is somewhat of an acquired taste. There’s a lot of screen estate wasted by the program’s design. It looks rather dated and lacking elegance compared to many music programs. For example, the seek bar is insanely small. But it’s definitely not the worst design. And much of the implementation is fairly good.
Silverjuke sports a reasonable range of features. There’s graphical frippery like the graphic equalizer and visualization. Definitely not my cup of tea, but may interest a minority. But there’s also genuinely useful functionality that’s implemented well including playlists, the ability to combine tracks to albums, a wide range of ways to add album covers, ratings, and more.
In my book, any music player must have gapless playback. Gapless playback is the uninterrupted playback of consecutive audio tracks, such that relative time distances in the original audio source are preserved over track boundaries on playback. It’s essential if you listen to classical, electronic music, concept albums, and progressive rock. There’s a few Linux music players that don’t offer gapless playback. Silverjuke offers good support for gapless playback.
Silverjuke also plays videos and offers a “kiosk mode”. This mode lets you run the software full screen with a defined functionality. There’s also support for UPnP/DLNA, search functionality, and more.
Next page: Page 3 – Memory usage
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – Memory usage
Page 4 – Summary