Hey, just so you know ... this post is now about 16 years and 9 months old. Please keep that in mind as it very well may contain broken links and/or outdated information.

I’ve been using Galleon for a long time (since its JavaHMO roots) to play my music library on my TiVos. Now there’s nothing wrong with it, but development has pretty much come to a complete halt.

Enter a new HME music application: Harmonium by Charles Perry. It’s still in early beta (only up to version 0.3.1) but shows promise. It has a sharp, high-definition interface, allows creation of playlists on-the-fly, is easy to use, and its free.

For now, I’ve shut off my Galleon music applications and am checking out Harmonium. I’ve run into a few snags and one thing it’s missing is the ability to parse my iTunes library directly (which means not having to export playlists into separate files) but like I said, it’s still an early beta. Now that it’s up and running my next mini-project will be to get it to run through Galleon so I don’t have two separate java processes hogging resources on my Ubuntu server (they both use the java service wrapper, so this should be possible). Stay tuned.