Monday, August 1, 2016

Install Qmmp Winamp-Like Music Player On Ubuntu

   Qmmp 1.1.2 is a popular open-source, cross-platform multimedia player, similar to Winamp and written in Qt. It has support for popular multimedia file formats, including MPEG1 layer 2/3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Opus, Native FLAC/Ogg FLAC, Musepack, WavePack, WMA, Midi.

 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 and 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 and 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 1.1.2 Changelog : 
  •   fixed path to equalizer presets file in the qsui plugin;
  •   fixed buffer overflow.

Installation instructions:

   The latest Qmmp builds are available via some third party PPA, so installing the software on Ubuntu should be a piece of cake. You just need to add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the qmmp and qmmp-plugin-pack packages:

 
Open terminal and insert command line...


$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:forkotov02/ppa

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install qmmp qmmp-plugin-pack

Open terminal and insert command line...

$ sudo apt-get remove qmmp qmmp-plugin-pack

2 comments:

  1. The correct is;

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:forkotov02/ppa
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install qmmp qmmp-plugin-pack

    Tks.

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