Inspired by my recent jaunt in refining the Lucid GTK theme for Ubuntu, I decided to do a refresh of the default music player for Linux in general (Gnome specially). Rythmbox. Though the design might also be implemented for Banshee. The colors I choose keeps up with "Light" theme of the new branding specs by Canonical. Hope you like it. BTW, this is just a mock-up and not a real application. 
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The elegant and sleek gradient in the first bar draws attention immediately to the player controls.
I really like this.
Awesome Design.
What about a revision that you promised DanRabbit?
What would make it even Better
Please oh please let someone make this a reality.
Would be realy great having this
And i like the volume being the way you have it in the mockup. I'm normally very picky and comment on everything, but i feel like what you have above is perfect for me.
Just a couple thoughts:
I don't think there really needs to be a label that says "Cover Art"
I'd like to see a version that uses a compact menu with more of the menubar items intergrated into the main UI.
There is a lot of space in between the view buttons and the volume slider. What do you think about putting the slider directly on the toolbar? It would save a click and I think it would spell out the functionality a little more explicitly.
I see in your view buttons you have a list view, and an album view (essentially a grouped list view). One thing they did in the new iTunes about that was that they actually made the album art a column in the list view. I think this probably makes a little more sense
I'm not sure if this would actually turn out, but what do you think about some monochromes in the sidepane for categories?
holy shit this is great.
i hope this would be real.
love it!
The horrizontal volume slider with the arrow
I wish they would make it as elegant as this
good job fibermarupok
Beautiful.
Oh, and the mockup is great, too!