Rhythmbox is a GNOME-based music player, but it also goes pretty well with other desktop environments. Some notable features of Rhythmbox are:

1. It can play music from your local drive, stream internet radio, and podcasts.
2. It can make a smart playlist.
3. It lets you enable gapless playback.
4. It enables your audio CDs to be burned.
5. It automatically searches artwork for the tracks.
6. It also allows SoundCloud integration.
7. It can display lyrics if they are present in the database.

Rhythmbox is now a default music player in many Linux distributions including Ubuntu. Aside from that,  it can be installed if it is not present in your distribution by default using a couple of approaches. Let’s check how to get the Latest Rhythmbox on your Ubuntu device:

Installing Rhythmbox on Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS) and 20.10 using Ubuntu’s Software Center

The first method of installing a Rhythmbox audio player is less complex and easy. Just open the  software store from the application as shown in the image below:

Then search Rhythmbox:

Now download it by clicking the “Install” button as shown in the following image:

Once the downloading and installation is finished, the Rhythmbox app can now be viewed in applications:

Open it:

Rhythmbox audio music player is now ready to use.

Installing Rhythmbox on Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS) and 20.10 using the terminal

In this approach, Rhythmbox will be downloaded using the terminal. Execute the below-mentioned command to download and install it:

How to uninstall Rhythmbox from Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS) and 20.10

If the music player is installed using the software center, then to delete it, open the software center again and click on the “Installed” tab. Find Rhythmbox and click remove. The entire process is demonstrated in the image below:

If it is installed using the terminal, then type the following command to delete Rhythmbox from your Ubuntu device:

Conclusion

This post focused on installing a free, very stable, and popular audio music player Rhythmbox on Ubuntu that comes with a lot of built-in features. Rhythmbox can be installed from the software center and terminal as well with quite a convenience. Finally, we saw the procedure of deleting the Rhythmbox music player from Ubuntu distribution.

Knowing how to stream from your computer to your TV comes in handy when you want to stream your media – pictures, video, music, or videogames – on the big screen, rather than on your small computer or laptop screen.Luckily, you can stream your media from Linux to your TV! In this article, we will teach you how to do exactly that.

HDMI Cable

This is one of the easiest ways to stream from Linux to a TV. Most smart and non-smart TV sets come with HDMI, or High-Definition Multimedia Interface, ports. With these cables, you can easily stream from your Linux OS to your TV.

These HDMI cables vary in length. Typically, they are of 2-3m in length. They do not cost much, and are very straightforward to install and use.

To link your Linux OS to your TV using an HDMI cable, follow these steps:

1. Connect HDMI to both TV and your laptop.
2. Press the Input list option on your TV remote.
3. Choose the HDMI option.

Note: It could be any one of the HDMI 1, HDMI 2, or HDMI 3 selections, depending on the port number into which you plugged the HDMI cable.

Chromecast

Google Chromecast is a device that can be plugged into any TV. After you have configured the device, it allows you to cast media from your phone or computer to the TV screen. Chromecast is a small and portable tool which allows you to stream media or cast your entire desktop screen on a TV.

If Chromecast is not available in your local market, consider buying alternatives, such as the Xiaomi Mi Box S, which comes with built-in Chromecast.

Ways to use Chromecast are discussed below:

Chromecast using Google Chrome

Step 1: Open Google Chrome and click on the 3 dots in the top right corner.

Step 2: Select the “Cast…” option.

Step 3: From the “Cast…” tab, select which device to which you wish to cast your screen. By clicking the “Sources” option, you can decide whether you want to cast the current tab, your entire desktop, or a file to the device.

After following these steps, your screen or file will be cast to the connected device.

Chromecast Using VLC media player

VLC media player is one of the most popular media players in the market. VLC media player is open-source and you can use this program to play your audio and video files.

If you are playing a file on this program and you wish to cast it to your TV screen, that will not be a problem. This is because the VLC media player supports Chromecast. You can cast your file to the TV in a few easy steps.

Step 1: Open the file in VLC media player that you wish to cast to your TV screen.

Step 2: Click “Playback.”

Step 3: Click “Renderer” and select the device to which you wish to cast your file.

Chromecast Using Terminal

You can use your terminal to cast your files to a TV. You may cast local files or YouTube videos.

Step 1: Open your terminal

Step 2: Install mkchromecast. I already have this installed, and you can install it using the following terminal command:

Step 3: Enter the below command to see a list of available networks. In the top right corner, you will be able to see a new Chromecast icon. Click the icon and select your TV.

If you are unable to see any devices, select the “Search for Media Streaming Devices” option.

Step 4: To cast media to the selected device, use the following commands:

For local files:

You may replace “/home/videos/cast.mp4” with the path of your own local video file.

For YouTube videos:

Instead of “link,” paste the video URL you wish to cast to the device.

Screen Share Using Ubuntu’s ‘Media Sharing’

Using Media Sharing, you may view the files located on your desktop on a smart TV.

In previous versions, to share your screen to a TV, you had to use third-party tools – but no longer. As of Ubuntu 19.10, Ubuntu comes with a built-in feature that allows you to share your files.

To do this, follow these steps:

Step 1: Open settings.

Step 2: Scroll down and click “Sharing.”

Step 3: Click the slider in the top right corner to enable sharing.

Step 4: Click “Media Sharing.” Click the slider to turn it on. Select the network through which you intend to share the media.

You Music, Videos, and Pictures folders are shared by default. You may remove a directory by pressing the cross icon and add a directory by pressing the plus icon and then choosing the directory of your choice.

Conclusion

There are several methods through which you can stream your Linux desktop on your TV or some other device. Some of these methods require external hardware, while others do not. Some methods require a third-party tool to stream your desktop to the TV if you have not yet updated past Ubuntu 19.10.

Chromecast comes with several features, but is not available in every country. The HDMI cable method is a simple and better option compared to other methods, but it requires you to always be within a 2-3 metre range of the television, which can be a hassle when your TV and computer are not in the same room.

That leaves us with the media share option that came with the Ubuntu 19.10 update. If you have not upgraded already, all you need to do is upgrade your Ubuntu to reap these benefits without having to purchase additional hardware.

In this article, we’ll be checking out how you can play an MP3 file directly from the CLI.

Playing MP3 from command

For this task, we’ll be needing the appropriate tool(s) installed on the system. Depending on what tool you have at your disposal, the method of playing an MP3 is going to differ. In this article, I’ll be showcasing a handful of methods using different tools.

To find the package name for your distro, Pkgs.org is the best place to search for. You can also use the search feature of your package manager to determine the exact package name.

VLC To Play MP3 From Command Line

VLC is one of the best media players. If you have VLC installed, then we can use the VLC command-line interface to play an MP3. The command structure looks like this.

If you have a directory full of MP3 files and you want to play them all, then run this command.

Want randomized playback of the playlist? Use the “–random” flag.

Here, the nvlc tool is the ncurses interface to the VLC player. Interestingly, in this interface, all the common control hotkeys like spacebar, arrow keys etc. works. For example, to pause the playback, press the spacebar; to go forward/backward, press the right/left arrow key.

The cvlc is another miniature interface of VLC for the command line. However, compared to nvlc, this one is even more simplistic and less verbose. To play an MP3 file using clvc, run this command.

Mpg123 to Play MP3 From Command Line

This is a very simple tool to play an MP3 file. It doesn’t come pre-installed with most of the distro. To install it, use your package manager’s search function to find for mpg123. It’s highly likely that you’ll find it by the exact name.

Assuming that you have the tool installed, let’s get started. For playing an MP3 file, the command structure for this tool goes like this.

The common key shortcuts for pause, next/previous etc. are supported, for example, spacebar, arrow keys etc.

Want multiple MP3 files as a playlist? Assuming all the MP3 files are within the same directory, use this command.

For shuffle playback of the playlist, add the “-Z” flag.

Want loop? Use the “–loop” flag. Here, the command will run the MP3 file 100 times.

To reduce the output clutter, you can use the “-q” or “–quiet” flag.

There’ll be no output, but no need to be afraid. Use the shortcut keys to control its behavior.

• ffplay

FFmpeg is one of the most powerful media tools that you can use to perform numerous tasks. It generally doesn’t come pre-installed but available on all the major Linux distros. This tool comes with a built-in media player named FFplay.

To play an MP3 file with FFplay, run this command.

The media player will start playing the file with a GUI window showing the spectrum analyzer. If you don’t want the GUI to pop up, add the “-nodisp” flag.

Want to play a single file in a loop? Run the command. Here, the MP3 will be played in a loop 100 times.

Generally, ffplay and all the FFmpeg tools will show a short report on the build config and license information. To disable this report in the output, add the “-hide_banner” flag.

Mplayer to Play MP3 From Command Line

This is a very simplistic media player on Linux that can play common media files like MP3. It’s available on almost all the major Linux ecosystems. When using in CLI, Mplayer supports the default hotkeys like spacebar, arrow keys etc. for pause/resume, going forward/backward etc.

To play an MP3 with Mplayer, run this command.

The Mplayer CLI also supports the default pause/resume/positioning hotkeys. It also supports playing multiple files from a directory.

When you’re telling the player to play a lot of MP3 files, shuffling can be enjoyable. If you want mplayer to shuffle, use the “-shuffle” flag.

To get less verbose output, Mplayer supports the “-quiet” argument.

Want even less verbose output? Use the “-really-quiet” flag.

If you want to play the MP3 in the GUI, use the “-gui” flag.

If you want to disable the GUI, then use “-nogui” instead.

Looping is also supported. THe following command will run your selected MP3 file(s) for 100 times.

If you just want the audio of an MP4 file, then use the following command. Here, we’re disabling the video part.

The number of command arguments that mplayer support is HUGE! If you’re interested in it, check out the man page.

Sox to Play MP3 From Command Line

Sox is another powerful media player, often referred to as the “Swiss army knife” of audio. This tool can play and convert a number of popular media files. Not only that, you can also apply some sound effects and record audio!

Sox is also available on most of the major Linux distros out there. To play an MP3 using Sox, use this command.

Final thoughts

There are various ways you can play an MP3 file from the command line. All you have to know is what tool to use and what command to run. Personally, I recommend using VLC as it’s well-known for its features.

If you just want to test the speaker, then using the speaker-test tool is a better alternative as it offers finer control over the tests. For example, the following command will perform a 6-channel check for 5.1 setup.

Enjoy!

A new window will open showing the video (in this case the video “What is Kubernetes’ ‘ from LinuxHint’s Youtube channel.

With your keyboard arrows you can manage the video position and you can pause it with your Space key on the keyboard.

Playing remote media from websites from Linux terminal:

Now you’ll see how to play videos from websites in your Linux terminal. The first way using mplayer is almost obsolete and only allows playing videos without SSL certificates, later you’ll see how to play videos on secured websites. To continue we need to edit the mplayer configuration file in the user home we are playing with. With nano or any text editor edit the file located at <YourHome>/.mplayer/config

In my case:

Within the configuration file add the line:

lirc=no

As shown below:

Press CTRL+X and Y to save and exit.

Now we can test it:

And the video shows up.

Another terminal media player is mpv which is based on mplayer, to install it on the terminal run:

Once installed to play a video just run:

In this case:

To play remote media files, for example for Youtube we need a workaround first, on the terminal run:

Playing remote videos from a specific timestamp is also possible with Mpv using the following syntax:

The command above will play the specified video form the minute 5. You can edit the start time by editing the –start=05:00 option.

Additional tips:

By pressing the key f, you can make the video Full screen, you can restore the default size by pressing the f again or ESC, these options are the same for Mplayer. By pressing Ctrl + and Ctrl – you can increase and decrease the audio speed, it is useful when the audio and video speed don’t match. With keys r and t you can change the subtitles position.

You can find more options for MPV player at its man page or online at https://manpages.debian.org/jessie/mpv/mpv.1. For Mplayer options you also see https://linux.die.net/man/1/mplayer.

Additional terminal media players:

Another option to play media from the Linux console is mpg123, You can install it by running:

There are also exclusive music players, without support for videos such as Music Player Daemon.

Conclusion:

Playing videos from terminal is a good solution, yet the default program configurations fail to play most popular video websites such as Youtube, all users from all OS, Windows, MacOS and Linux, for which the mentioned programs are available, report difficulties with customized solutions to achieve terminal remote playing. For ssh sessions the best option remains to copy the media files into the local device to play.

For remote playing videos, troubleshooting process includes editing the /etc/.config/mpv/mpv.conf with “no-ytdl”, if necessary you will need to create mpv’s configuration file. In other cases the no-ydl will need to be disabled to play, this option is used to bypass the  built-in ytdl_hook.lua file which sometimes brings problems. You may also need to downgrade your ytdl, you can achieve it by running “sudo pip install youtube_dl==2017.07.30.1”.

Vlc Player, despite isn’t a terminal video player, remains the best option for remote media playing, if you need help with VLC LinuxHint has 2 clear articles for you to read at https://linuxhint.com/install-vlc-media-player-2-2-x-linux/ and https://linuxhint.com/vlc-media-player-for-linux/.

I hope you found this tutorial on Playing media in Linux terminal useful. Keep following LinuxHint for more tips and updates.

Musikcube Features

• It has a native Android app version called musikdroid, that connects to musikcube servers
• Can be used as a streaming audio client and/or a remote control for playback on a headless server
• It is a cross-platform c++ library
• Ideal for developers as a backend for creating or prototyping apps that play music
• Out of the box, it provides file scanning capability, index tagging, gapless as well as crossfading playback
• Offers a play queue management system, playlist crud, an extensible plugin architecture
• Has support for libraries containing 100,000+ audio tracks

The most recent release is musikcube 0.21.1, and this comes with updates to few of the symbols used for drawing things like dropdowns and checkmarks so they work with a wider variety of fonts

How to install Musikcube Terminal Based Music Player on Ubuntu 17.04 and below

• Install the following libraries and their development packages

sudo apt-get install build-essential clang cmake libboost-thread1.61-dev libboost-system1.61-dev libboost-filesystem1.61-dev libboost-date-time1.61-dev libboost-atomic1.61-dev libboost-chrono1.61-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libflac-dev libfaad-dev libncursesw5-dev libasound2-dev libpulse-dev pulseaudio libmicrohttpd-dev libmp3lame-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

• Run following commands to compile it

git clone https://github.com/clangen/musikcube.git

cd musikcube

cmake .

make

sudo make install

• To laucn app, run the following command

musikcube

How to remove musikcube from Ubuntu

sudo apt remove musikcube

Keyboard Shortcuts

Nuclear Music Player Features

• Comes with ability to search for and play music from youtube (including integration with playlists), bandcamp (including albums), as well as soundcloud
• Also search for related songs in youtube
• You can download from youtube as well
• Also you can search for albums (powered by last.fm and musicbrainz), album view, automatic song lookup based on artist and track name
• Song queue can be exported as a playlist
• Saved playlists which are stored in json file format can be loaded
• Offers ability to scrobble to last.fm (along with updating the ‘now playing’ status)

How to install Nuclear Music Player on Ubuntu 17.04 & Below

sudo apt install gdebi

wget https://github.com/nukeop/nuclear/releases/download/george/nuclear-george-linux-x64.deb

sudo gdebi nuclear-george-linux-x64.deb

How to remove Nuclear Music Player from Ubuntu

sudo apt remove nuclear

This music player is worthy of been added to our list of top 22 must have ubuntu apps for 2017. Before we look at how to install Harmony Music Player on Ubuntu, lets take a quick look at its features.

Harmony Music Player Features

• It can play musics from various popular sources such as Google Play Music, Spotify, SoundCloud, Deezer, Hype Machine or local files
• You have all playlists within the same app
• Comesm with a sound menu integration or system tray for incompatible systems
• Offers Last.fm scrobbling
• A super sleek user interface
• Comes with a Dark mode theme which can be activated with following key combination (Cmd/Ctrl + D)
• Has a keyboard control
• It is free from distraction
• Integrated with a background notifications system

Harmony Music Player 0.6.0 Changelog Highlight

Features/Changes

• Offers new theme engine
• Now shows playing track’s title in tray menu
• Comes with ability to select multiple tracks
• Offers ability to add/remove tracks to/from playlists
• More shortcuts added: Ctrl/Cmd+k to hide sidebar, Ctrl/Cmd+A to select all
• It now shows a loading spinner during network ops in settings
• Increment track count on Google Play Music
• You can now choose YouTube playback quality
• There is now option to remove color from menu items
• Ability to set volume indicator to red when muted
• You can now disable update checks
• Offers better track buffering, as well as better arrow scrolling
• No more frequent annoying license popup
• Few improvements which includes speed as well as stability
• Electron can now be upgraded
• You can now create non-services plugins
• Other small changes

Fixes:

• Google Play Music playing track from YouTube at first instance fixed
• Fixed Google Play Music liking/unliking tracks
• Spotify Operations before loading library now fixed
• OSX
  • Fixed the Tray icon been too big
  • The window fully draggable, hence making app hard to use fixed
  • Fixed the dark theme not fully applying to header
• Fixed the clicking on not-yet loaded playlist
• The view artist/album view issue addressed
• Other various small fixes

How to install Harmony Music Player on Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04

32 bits

sudo apt-get install gdebi

wget https://github.com/vincelwt/harmony/releases/download/v0.6.0/harmony-0.6.0-x32.deb

sudo gdebi harmony-0.6.0-x32.deb

64 bits

sudo apt-get install gdebi

wget https://github.com/vincelwt/harmony/releases/download/v0.6.0/harmony-0.6.0-x64.deb

sudo gdebi harmony-0.6.0-x64.deb

How to uninstall Harmony from Ubuntu

sudo apt-get remove harmony

Yarock Desktop Music Player Features

• Music Browser
  • You can browse your local music collection based on cover art with multiple views : artists, albums tracks, genre, years views, folders and files
  • Smart playlist generator
  • Simply drag and drop from music browser to playqueue
  • Easy search and filter music collection
  • Rate tracks, albums or artists
  • Save song ratings and play counts
  • Support multiple music collection
• Audio Playback
  • Multiple audio back-ends (Phonon, vlc, mpv)
  • Replay Gain support (phonon)
  • Gapless playback (phonon gstreamer, mpv)
  • Supports MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WMA, MPEG-4 AAC music files (depending on audio back-end)
  • Audio equalizer
• The UI provides you with a simple playqueue with cover and rating, Minimal window mode, Mpris 2 interface, Desktop notifications, Media shortcut support, as well as Command line interface
• The web radio streaming supports best radio stream services such as TuneIn, SHoutCast, Dirble.
• You can also save your favorites radio
• Provides you with Artist biography, Similars artists, Albums contents and cover, as well as Songs lyrics

How to install Yarock Desktop Music Player on Ubuntu 17.04 and below

• We will be installing app from yarock ppa provided by WebUp8

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8

sudo apt update && sudo apt install yarock

How to uninstall Yarock Desktop Music Player from Ubuntu

sudo apt remove yarock

Dopmine Music Player 1.3 Changelog

Note that playlist support was rewritten from scratch. Your existing playlists will not be migrated. Save your playlists to files manually before upgrading to this version. Import your saved playlists after upgrading to this version.

New Features

• Added a button to export album and song covers to files
• Added an option to switch between 4 styles of spectrum analyzers
• Smoother list animations
• Audio device selection added
• Added extra album sorting option “By date created”
• Added optional play count, skip count and date last played column to the songs screen
• Left and right arrow keys allow jumping 5 or 15 seconds backward or forward (Information > help for hotkeys)
• Added an option to follow the album cover color
• Added support for local lyrics files (LRC)
• Changes to the collection folders are now detected automatically
• Added a context menu option to add the playing song to a playlist
• Changes to the Music\Dopamine\Playlists folder are now detected automatically
• Added NeteaseLyrics support
• Added XiamiLyrics support
• Double clicking a playlist queues and plays the songs of that playlist
• The keyboard space bar now toggles play and pause

Changes

• Lyrics are not downloaded anymore when the lyrics screen is not visible
• When using “Loop one”, pressing Previous or Next now skips to the previous or next song.
• Playlists support has been rewritten: playlists are now saved to files automatically.
• The ‘Cloud’ screen was renamed to ‘Frequent’ and the layout was changed
• The song title on playback info panes now scales to the available width
• Updated a few more languages

See changelog for all bug fixes

Download Dopmine Audio Player 1.3

Parole Media Player 0.9.2 Highlights

• General
  • Homepage updated to docs.xfce.org
  • Xfce URLs were switched to HTTPS
• New Features
  • A new keyboard shortcuts helper was added to the Help menu
  • New B as well as N keybindings for previous and next track
• Bug Fixes
  • Null pointer dereference
  • Adding directories to the queue from the commandline
  • Shuffle functionality also repeats indefinitely
  • Display order of audio as well as subtitle tracks is wrong
  • “Clear Recent” functionality clears all history
  • Ctrl + Q keybinding does not work in fullscreen
  • Strings are not properly escaped in the audiobox widget
• Code Quality
  • Standardized header guards, as well as includes
  • Added directory path when naming .h files
  • Made numerous whitespace fixes
  • Added braces for if/else bodies with multiple statements
  • String length was reduced to 120 characters per line
  • Further cleaned up the .gitignore and added more definitions
• Translation Updates
  • Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmal, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Ukrainian

How to install Parole Media Player 0.9.2 on Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04

As at making this post, there is no PPA with the latest version of parole, so I will show you how to compile Parole Media Player

• Install required dependencies

sudo apt-get build-dep parole
sudo apt install gstreamer1.0-libav

• Download and extract package

wget http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/parole/0.9/parole-0.9.2.tar.bz2
tar xvf parole-0.9.2.tar.bz2
cd parole-0.9.2/

• Compile and install parole

./configure
make
sudo make install

• Run parole Media Player with following command

parole

• If you run into the following error:

Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

(parole:22048): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

• To launch Parole, run the following command and then rerun parole

export DISPLAY=:0 (#note some might be display 1 rather than zero)

How to uninstall Parole Media Player

sudo apt-get remove parole

Qmmp Features

• XMMS and Winamp 2.x skins support
• alternative user interface based on standard widgets set
• 10-band equalizer
• MP3, Vorbis, AAC, AAC+ streams support
• MMS support (experimental)
• MPRIS (1.0 as well as 2.0)
• removable device detection (via HAL or UDisks)
• video playback via Mplayer
• lyrics (using lyrics.wikia.com)
• cover art
• CUE sheet support
• embedded CUE support (for FLAC as well as WavPack)
• multiple playlists
• automatic charset detection for cue files and ShoutCast metadata
• playlist formats: m3u, pls, xspf
• ReplayGain support
• Last.fm/Libre.fm scrobbler
• CDDB support
• stream browser
• audio formats conveter
• external programs execution on track change
• ReplayGain scanner

Qmmp 1.1.9 Changelog

• using relative skin path for portable configuration;
• improved WASAPI support;
• Fixed
  • cursors support in the skinned user interface
  • freezing when using DirectSound output
  • issue with ‘jump to track’ dialog when single click activation is enabled
  • tray icon tooltip (1.1.9 only)
  • FLAC bitrate calculation
  • segmentation fault in the ffmpeg plugin
  • Russian translation
  • as well as documentation
• updated French translation.

How to install Qmmp 1.1.9 on Ubuntu Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 12.04

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:forkotov02/ppa

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install qmmp qmmp-plugin-pack

How to uninstall Qmmp from Ubuntu

sudo apt-get remove qmmp qmmp-plugin-* && sudo apt-get autoremove

You can filter your music as desired by artist, title, album, genre, date as well as location. Furthermore, it let’s you babe-mark your favorite YouTube music videos into your local collection by using the Chromium extension.

You can think of Babe music player as the playlist where all your favorite tracks at the moment are. And when needed you can have an integrated collection manager.

Qt Babe Music Player Features

• Babe has three different view modes:
  • the mini mode keeps on top of the windows as well as its size is just 200×200 px ,just displaying the art and playback controls
  • the playlist mode is unobtrusive as well as displays a list of your songs
  • the collection view let’s you browse your whole music collection by tracks, artists and albums, also let’s you get information about the current song playing.
• Search keys to filter the results
  • location: (example: to see all the tracks from the YouTube extension: “location:youtube”)
  • artist: (get all matching artists)
  • album: (get all matching albums)
  • title: (get all matching titles)
  • genre: (get all matching genres)
• quickly append search results, albums, artists and tracks to the main playlist or save them to a specific playlist
• create colored mood tags for tracks that modify the main playlist color
• use the chromium extension to babe your favorite youtube music videos and Babe will fetch the art and metadata of the track
• quickly move between albums/artists with the playAll button that shows on hover in all the artworks
• get native kde notifications for the plasma desktop
• add songs to a queued special playlist if you want to play some track next

How to install Babe Music Player on Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04

• The steps outlined below is how to compile on install Bebe Music Player on Ubuntu

git clone https://github.com/milohr/babe-music-player.git

cd babe-music-*

sudo apt-get install valac libgee-0.8-dev libgtk-3-dev libsoup2.4-dev libtagc0-dev libtag1-dev libges-1.0-dev libnotify-dev

sudo ln -s /usr/share/vala/vapi/gee-0.8.vapi /usr/share/vala/vapi/gee-1.0.vapi

valac --pkg gstreamer-1.0 --pkg gtk+-3.0 --pkg taglib_c --pkg gee-1.0 --pkg libxml-2.0 --pkg libsoup-2.4 --pkg libnotify babe.vala stream.vala lastfm.vala widgets.vala LyricFetcher.vala list.vala playlist.vala

./babe

How to uninstall Qt Babe Music Player from Ubuntu

sudo rm babe-music-*

SMPlayer Features

• Supports the most known formats and codecs: avi, mp4, mkv, mpeg, mov, divx, h.264… you can play all of them, thanks to its built-in codecs
• Can play YouTube videos and it’s also available an optional plugin to search for YouTube videos
• Comes with several skins and icon themes, so you can easily change the look of the player
• Can search and download subtitles from opensubtitles.org.
• Includes many advanced features like video and audio filters, change of the playback speed, adjustment of audio and subtitles delay, video equalizer… and many more
• Is available in more than 30 languages, including Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese…
• Uses the award-winning MPlayer as playback engine, which is one of the best players in the world

Changelog since SMPlayer 17.1

• Experimental support to play videos on Chromecast, as well as subtitles
• Fix for YouTube
• On Linux SMPlayer now uses a different web server, included in the packages, to serve files for Chromecast. If you installed the package webfs you can uninstall it now since SMPlayer won’t use it anymore
• The option in the playlist to delete files from the disk has been removed
• Support for some of the #EXTVLCOPT options in m3u/m3u8 playlists. This may help to play online streams from playlists intended for VLC
• New options in the context menu of the playlist: ‘copy URL to clipboard’, ‘open source folder’ and ‘play on Chromecast’.
• Option to display bitrate information in the status bar.
• Possibility to display the playback time with milliseconds in the status bar.
• The option to add black borders on fullscreen is back (Preferences -> General -> Video)
• The option to delete files from the disk in the playlist is back but it’s disabled by default (you can enable it in Preferences -> Playlist -> Misc).
• New translation: Norwegian Bokmål

How to Install SMPlayer 17.4 on Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:rvm/smplayer

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install smplayer smplayer-themes

How to uninstall SMPlayer from Ubuntu

sudo apt-get remove smplayer smplayer-themes

In addition, Picard uses AcoustID audio fingerprints, allowing files to be identified by the actual music, even if they have no metadata. As well as ability to lookup entire music CDs with a click.

MusicBrainz Picard 1.4 Highlights

New Features

• Test as well as integrate support for “local” cover art into Picard
• Display infos (album, artist, tracklist) for clusters without release match
• Add download plugin functionality to existing UI
• Fallback on album artist’s tags if no tags are found for album
• Add m2a as a supported extension
• MusicBrainz as well as AcoustID entities should be hyperlinked in Picard
• Support key tag, as well as AIF (ID3)
• Export as well as import settings
• Search releases from within a Picard dialog, as well as for artists from dialog

Improvements

• Link to Picard Scripting page under ‘File Naming’
• Restore default settings button/s
• Add more descriptive tooltips to buttons
• Speed of Ogg tag writing/updating
• Make it easier to remove everything currently loaded in Picard
• Bring back keyboard shortcuts for editing tags
• Make it possible to remove existing tags without clearing all tags
• Customisable toolbars
• Improvements to WMA tags
• Show codec info for MP4 files
• Allow scripting functions to have arbitrary number of arguments
• Make list of scripts smaller than script text by default
• Wait for save thread pool to be finished before exit
• Use the more detailed icons in more places on windows

… and many more

How to install MusicBrainz Picard 1.4 on Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:musicbrainz-developers/daily

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install picard

How to uninstall MusicBrainz Picard from Ubuntu

sudo apt-get remove picard

One of the goals for this app is to make it intuitive and easy usablility. Currently it is only available for Linux. Those who miss Winamp for Linux should give Sayonara a try.

Sayonara Music Player Features

• Many supported music and playlist formats
• Media library with search function
• Directory view
• External device support
• Genre organization
• Playlist view organized by tabs
• Dynamic playback

Sayonara 0.9.2 Changelog

• track creation/modify dates of tracks
• Double free error fixed when closing player
• Playlist: Bug fixed. Saved playlists aren’t deleted anymore
• LastFM: Scrobbling fixes
• Library: Genre search fixes
• Engine: make pitch optional
• Library
  • live search bug fixed
  • smart database search
  • Filesystem watcher (experimental)
  • Merge artists
  • prefix/postfix search
• Tagging: Ignore period character in genre view*
• Fixed jumping bug in speed/pitch plugin, as well as segfault in crossfader
• Debian packaging
• Added
  • gstreamer bad dependency
  • pitch control support
  • speed control not affecting pitch
  • bookmarks for supporting podcasts
  • System tray icon on/off support
• Fixed lyrics bug

How to install Sayonara 0.9.2 on Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:lucioc/sayonara

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install sayonara

How to uninstall Sayonara from Ubuntu

sudo apt remove sayonara

The latest release v3.4.x comes with a new web remote control plugin, addresses the grilo plugin crash on reload etc.

Rhythmbox 3.4.x Changelog

• rhythmbox-3.3.1 grilo plugin crashes on reload
• App crashes while updating metadata for file stored in read only filesystem
• RhythmDB-CRITICAL **: rhythmdb_entry_unref: assertion ‘entry != NULL’ failed
• App crashes while stopping track extraction from CD
• “View All” button in iRadio plugin doesn’t fire filter changed notification
• Missing sort order label in Automatic playlist dialog
• Magnatune: “Select All” -> “Download Album” halts entire system
• GIR Bindings Broken With 3.4 (rb_application_add_accelerator)
• The app should not allow deletion of default items in side pane.
• webremote plugin: Missing files in installation.
• App crashed with SIGSEGV during import
• A few translation updates

How to install the latest version on Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vascofalves/gnome-backports

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install rhythmbox

How to remove the app from Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:vascofalves/gnome-backports

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get remove rhythmbox

If you want to revert back to previous release, run the following commands

sudo apt-get remove rhythmbox && sudo apt autoremove

sudo apt-get update

MythTV 0.28 Changelog

Key New Features

• WebFrontend. The web interface that uses the webserver built-in the backend (no configuration required.)MythWeb is still available as WebFrontend is not feature complete to replace MythWeb.

Major Changes

• Major UPnP overhaul The UPnP code has seen major changes, improved browsing modes, more metadata, artwork for all media, strict UPnP (2014) and DLNA compliance and support for additional UPnP features. (Note: Client support for additional metadata varies. Client behaviour depends on UPnP compliance.)
• The cardinput table is no longer used, data has moved to capturecard
• MythMusic now uses storage groups you just have to tell the master or a slave backend where your music is located and all frontends will have access to it (no need to mount it using NFS or Cifs).
• MythMusic Lyrics View MythMusic can now search for the lyrics for the currently playing track.
• Updated MythMusic Radio Stream List MythMusic now downloads from our server an updated list of over 31000 radio streams from all around the world.
• MythZoneMinder popup notifications on alarms Shows a live view of the alarmed camera in a popup window.
• Replacement Gallery using MythUI & storage groups Backend manages images in Storage Group and supports multiple frontends/service clients
• Add VBox TV Gateway support
• Add H.265 (HEVC) and VP9 support.
• Using FFmpeg 3.0

Added support libraries/prerequisites

• Qt version 5.2 (or later)
• Exiv2 image tag reader package/library
• taglib version to 1.7 (version 1.8 or higher is recommended, but MythTV will compile with 1.7)
• libcec version is raised from 1.5 to 1.7
• libsystemd-daemon-dev for sd_notify()

How to Install MythTV 0.28 on Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04

--------- Add the Repository ---------
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mythbuntu/0.28

--------- Update Repository ---------
sudo apt-get update

--------- Install Package ---------
sudo apt-get install mythtv

 Remove MythTV 0.28

sudo apt-get remove mythtv

Google Play Music Manager Features

• You can now upload at least up to 20,000 songs to the app
• Choose how much bandwidth you use to upload music
• Download music you have uploaded or purchased on Google Play
• You now have options to upload your iTunes, Windows Media, or any other collections of music you have to Google Play Music App

How to Install Google Play Music Manager  on Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04

32bit OS

sudo apt-get install gdebi

wget http://dl.google.com/linux/musicmanager/deb/pool/main/g/google-musicmanager-beta/google-musicmanager-beta_1.0.243.1116-r0_i386.deb

sudo gdebi google-musicmanager-beta_1.0.243.1116-r0_i386.deb

64bit OS

sudo apt-get install gdebi

wget http://dl.google.com/linux/musicmanager/deb/pool/main/g/google-musicmanager-beta/google-musicmanager-beta_1.0.243.1116-r0_amd64.deb

sudo gdebi google-musicmanager-beta_1.0.243.1116-r0_amd64.deb

• Run the following command to start Google Play Music Manager

google-musicmanager

• Follow the on screen display to login with your gmail account to the app

Troubleshooting

If you are running this app on a virtualbox VM, you may likely receive the following error when trying to login

login failed could not identify your computer

Fix

From investigation, it appears Google does not support running Google Play Music Manager on a virtual machine. What happenns is Google Music Manager checks your machine MAC address on your NIC and tries to determine what type of computer you’re running. So since this is on a VM, it then that explains the error.

So to get work around this lockdown, you will need to tell the VM to use a real MAC address.

• First go here and generate a new mac address
• Open up your VirtualBox > Select the OS > Click on the Settings button
• Go to Network > Click on Advanced to expand it
• Copy one of the newly generated mac address and replace one in the Mac Address box.

Note you might have to try the different addresses generated incase the system does not accept the one copied

• Save and restart your VM