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How to install Musique Audio player on Ubuntu 16.04

To install Musique Audio player on Ubuntu

Musique Player supports almost all audio formats which includes FLAC, OGG Vorbis, Monkey’ s Audio (APE), Musepack (MPC), WavPack (WV), True Audio (TTA). Users can browse their collection by artists, pictures and album covers. In the Info View, Musique finds and shows the song lyrics.

Features

  • Starts fast, very lightweight and can easily handle large collections.
  • Browse by artist photos, album covers and folders too, so you can organize your music your way.
  • Immersive Info View you can switch to while listening. It shows information about the current track, album and artist.
  • Supports most audio formats, including: FLAC, OGG Vorbis, Monkey’ s Audio (APE), Musepack (MPC), WavPack (WV), True Audio (TTA)
  • Automatically fixes misspellings and case in track titles, album titles and artist names, freeing you from the hassle of manually tagging your files.
  • Musique never ever modifies your files, it stores all of its data in its own database.
  • Supports scrobbling to Last.fm
  • Translated to more than 20 languages including German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian and Chinese.

Add the Musique repo file via ppa.

root@linuxhelp1:~# add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmphu0e2202/secring.gpg'  created
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gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

Once the repo file is added, update the machine by using the following command. 

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]                 
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Get:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]              
Fetched 306 kB in 2s (128 kB/s)                                    
Reading package lists... Done

Now is the time to install the Musique package. Use the following command for the same purpose. 

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install musique
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libphonon4 libqt4-opengl phonon phonon-backend-gstreamer phonon-backend-gstreamer-common
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Setting up phonon:amd64 (4:4.8.3-0ubuntu3) ...
Setting up musique (1.3-1~webupd8~xenial) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...

Open the dashboard of Ubuntu to launch Musique audio player.

Select the song tracks and listen the songs.


Tag : Audio Player
FAQ
Q
what are all the formats does it supports in Musique?
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Musique Player supports almost all audio formats which includes FLAC, OGG Vorbis, Monkey’s Audio (APE), Musepack (MPC), WavPack (WV), True Audio (TTA
Q
Does it consumes more Cpu space in Musique?
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No it is a llight weight application in Musique
Q
Does it support multiple language in Musique?
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Translated to more than 20 languages including German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian and Chinese.
Q
Does editing overwrites my file in Musique?
A
Musique never ever modifies your files, it stores all of its data in its own database.
Q
How can I organise my files in Musique?
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Browse by artist photos, album covers and folders too, so you can organize your music your way.