Sonata, an elegant GTK+ client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD)
Copyright 2006-2009 Scott Horowitz <stonecrest@gmail.com>

Thanks to Andrew Conkling et al, for all their hard work on Pygmy!
Sonata started as a fork of the Pygmy project and is licensed under the GPLv3.

DEVELOPERS:
	Scott Horowitz <stonecrest@gmail.com>
	Tuukka Hastrup <Tuukka.Hastrup@iki.fi>
	Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>

REQUIREMENTS:
	(Required) PyGTK 2.12 or newer
	(Required) GTK 2.12 or newer
	(Required) python-mpd 0.2 or newer
	(Required) Python 2.5 or newer
	(Required) MPD 0.12 or newer, possibly on another computer
	(Optional) Gnome-python-extras for enhanced system tray
	(Optional) taglib and tagpy for editing metadata
        (Optional) dbus-python for mmkeys, single instance support
	(Building) GCC
	(Building) python-dev (on some distros)

RUNNING:
	Sonata can be run from source without installation. Simply
	run 'python sonata.py' as your user.

INSTALLATION:
	Run 'python setup.py install' as root.

FEATURES:
	+ Expanded and collapsed views, fullscreen album art mode
	+ Automatic remote and local album art
	+ Library browsing by folders, or by genre/artist/album
	+ User-configurable columns
	+ Automatic fetching of lyrics
	+ Playlist and stream support
	+ Support for editing song tags
	+ Drag-and-drop to copy files
	+ Popup notification
	+ Library and playlist searching, filter as you type
	+ Audioscrobbler (last.fm) 1.2 support
	+ Multiple MPD profiles
	+ Keyboard friendly
	+ Support for multimedia keys
	+ Commandline control
	+ Available in 24 languages

DOCUMENTATION/FAQ:
	http://sonata.berlios.de/documentation.html
