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Is there anything on GNOME that allows you to have controls for a media player in a panel? Like what Windows Media Player has that let's you minimise it to the taskbar, and use volume and playback controls there.

EDIT: I mean this kind of thing

WMP in Taskbar

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"Music Applet is a small, simple GNOME panel applet that lets you control a variety of different music players from the panel."

I haven't tried this software, I just googled it.

Edit: Lifehacker has taken notice, and they appear to have the applet running in Ubuntu. They also raise the point that you should search for the applet in your distro's repositories before installing from source.

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Yeah, Kevin got it running. Looks like a good solution. – The How-To Geek♦ Sep 22 at 16:12
It's not in the ubuntu repos, and the site doesn't work for me, but it is what I wanted, and it's evidently working for others (my ISP's DNS can be rather dodgy at times). – Macha Sep 22 at 16:30
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i'm not entirely sure if that's what you are looking for, but banshee has an extension called "mini mode" that only provides the media controls. here's a screenshot of how it is looking like.

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No that's not what I meant, I added a picture. – Macha Sep 21 at 19:20
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AWN provides an applet through which you can control the playback, if you use AWN.

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