User:DSParillo/Drafts/Quod Libet

This page is about the music player software. For other uses, see Quodlibet.

Quod Libet

File:TBD Screenshot of Quod Libet audio player
Developer(s)	Joe Wreschnig and others
Initial release	06 Sep 2008
Stable release	4.5.0 wikidata:Q1621193 (March 2022 (2022-03)) [±]
Written in	Python (programming_language) GTK+
Operating system	Unix-like, Windows
Available in	Multilanguage
Type	Audio player
License	GNU General Public License Version 2
Website	Project homepage on Google Code

Origin of the Name

From the developers FAQ:

Quodlibet or Quod libet is Latin for "whatever you please" or "whatever you want", which is the kind of attitude we want to convey with QL: you control how you fiddle with your music. A quodlibet is also a type of musical composition, an improvisation by several players or vocalists at once, which is a pretty accurate description of QL's development.

Ex falso quodlibet, or "from a falsehood, whatever you please" is one of the properties of material implication (if/then) in classical logics; in standard notation it can be written as $\forall A\left(\bot \to A\right)$

Finally, the initial directory imported into Subversion was named ql, because I was experimenting with a syntax for a q_uery l_anguage.

See also

• Comparison of audio player software
• Ex Falso
• Mutagen

External links

• Quod Libet homepage
• #quodlibet - irc channel on the Open and Free Technology Community