How To Install Qmmp On Popos

To Install Qmmp On Popos

The Qmmp is a popular open-source, cross-platform multimedia player, similar to Winamp and written in Qt. It is a simple, intuitive user interface and supports Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and MP3 music formats and also supports embedded ID3v2 album images. The method to install Qmmp on PopOS is covered in this tutorial.

Installation

First, make sure you add the necessary repository.

root@linuxhelp:~# add-apt-repository ppa:forkotov02/ppa
Releases of Qt-based multimedia player (Qmmp)

Run the following commands for the installation

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

Qt4-based version ( for Ubuntu 16.04 or higher )

sudo apt-get install qmmp-qt4 qmmp-plugin-pack-qt4
More info: https://launchpad.net/~forkotov02/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel adding it.
gpg: keybox ' /tmp/tmpmftg_6dh/pubring.gpg'  created
gpg: /tmp/tmpmftg_6dh/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 0F2BC52FC4FBC3E6: public key " Launchpad PPA for Ilya Kotov"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
OK

And then, update the newly added repository as follows.

root@linuxhelp:~#  apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/eugenesan/ppa/ubuntu artful InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-security InRelease             
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful InRelease                    
Ign:4 http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable InRelease                     
Hit:5 http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable Release                       
Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/forkotov02/ppa/ubuntu artful InRelease [15.4 kB]
Hit:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates InRelease            
Hit:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-backports InRelease          
Hit:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/system76/pop/ubuntu artful InRelease     
Hit:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/yg-jensge/shotwell/ubuntu artful InRelease   
Get:12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/forkotov02/ppa/ubuntu artful/main i386 Packages [1,988 B]
Get:13 http://ppa.launchpad.net/forkotov02/ppa/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages [1,984 B]
Get:14 http://ppa.launchpad.net/forkotov02/ppa/ubuntu artful/main Translation-en [1,396 B]
Fetched 20.7 kB in 2s (8,197 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done

You shall now install Qmmp by making use of the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install qmmp qmmp-plugin-pack
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-4.13.0-25 linux-headers-4.13.0-25-generic
  linux-image-4.13.0-25-generic linux-image-extra-4.13.0-25-generic
Use ' apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  freepats i965-va-driver libaacs0 libadplug-2.2.1-0v5 libavcodec57
  libavformat57 libavutil55 libbdplus0 libbinio1v5 libbluray2 libbs2b0
  libcddb2 libchromaprint1 libcrystalhd3 libdouble-conversion1 libfaad2
  libgme0 libgsm1 liblhasa0 libmad0 libmms0 libmodplug1 libmp3lame0 libmpcdec6
  libmpg123-0 libopenjp2-7 libopenmpt0 libopusfile0 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5
  libqt5gui5 libqt5multimedia5 libqt5network5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite
  libqt5svg5 libqt5widgets5 libqt5x11extras5 librtmidi3 libsdl1.2debian
  libsdl2-2.0-0 libshine3 libsidplay1v5 libsidplayfp4 libsnappy1v5 libsndio6.1
  libsoxr0 libssh-gcrypt-4 libswresample2 libswscale4 libtwolame0 libva-drm1
  libva-x11-1 libva1 libvdpau1 libwildmidi-config libwildmidi2 libx264-148
  libx265-130 libxcb-xinerama0 libxmp4 libxvidcore4 libzvbi-common libzvbi0
 libzzip-0-13 mesa-va-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers milkytracker opencubicplayer
  opencubicplayer-doc qt5-gtk-platformtheme qttranslations5-l10n schism unmo3
  va-driver-all vdpau-driver-all xmp
 Suggested packages:
  adplug-utils libbluray-bdj firmware-crystalhd qt5-image-formats-plugins
  qtwayland5 sidplay-base sidplayfp sndiod goattracker qmmp-plugin-projectm
  mplayer libfglrx-amdxvba1 libvdpau-va-gl1 nvidia-vdpau-driver
  nvidia-legacy-340xx-vdpau-driver
 The following NEW packages will be installed:
  freepats i965-va-driver libaacs0 libadplug-2.2.1-0v5 libavcodec57
  libavformat57 libavutil55 libbdplus0 libbinio1v5 libbluray2 libbs2b0

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Setting up qmmp (1.2.1-1ubuntu1~artful0) ...
Setting up qmmp-plugin-pack (1.2.1-1ubuntu1~artful0) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.26-0ubuntu2.1) ...

After the installation, you can access the application from the menu as shown here.

With this, the method to install Qmmp On Popos comes to an end.

Tag : Qmmp Pop OS
FAQ
Q
What is the feature available in QMMP player?
A
What is the feature available in QMMP player?
Q
What are the formats will support the QMMP player?
A
The following formats are support the QMMP player,



MPEG1 layer 2/3

Ogg Vorbis

Ogg Opus

Native FLAC/Ogg FLAC

Musepack

WavePack

tracker modules (mod, s3m, it, xm, etc)

ADTS AAC

CD Audio

WMA, Monkey's Audio (and other formats provided by FFmpeg library)

PCM WAVE (and other formats provided by libsndfile library)

Midi

SID

Chiptune formats (AY, GBS, GYM, HES, KSS, NSF, NSFE, SAP, SPC, VGM, VGZ, VTX)
Q
How to check the qmmp player version in copmmand line?
A
# qmmp -V
Q
How to remove qmmp player?
A
# apt-get remove qmmp* qmmp-plugin-pack* && sudo apt-get autoremove
Q
is there any other distro install qmmp player?
A
yeah.. Just follow this link, https://www.linuxhelp.com/how-to-install-qmmp-on-debian-8-3/