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How To Install Quod Libet  on Ubuntu 16.04

To install Quod Libet on Ubuntu

Quod Libet is an open-source and cross-platform music management program. It is capable of playing your audio files, editing the tags, and also organize the music library. It is a simple to install tool and its installation in Ubuntu is covered in this article.

Installing Quod Libet on Ubuntu

Make sure you add the PPA for Quod Libet package in the repo list before installing it.

user1@linuxhelpubnt:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lazka/ppa
[sudo] password for user1: 
 ========== Quodlibet Stable ==========

quodlibet, quodlibet-plugins, exfalso and mutagen stable builds

http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/
http://code.google.com/p/mutagen/
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gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK


Once it is done, use the following command to update the apt sources-list.

user1@linuxhelpubnt:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/lazka/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.5 kB]
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease                 
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease                
Get:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/lazka/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [1,332 B]
Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/lazka/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [1,332 B]
Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/lazka/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [1,052 B]
Fetched 21.2 kB in 1s (18.9 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

After updating the apt sources-list, install the package as follows. 

user1@linuxhelpubnt:~$ sudo apt-get install quodlibet
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libpango1.0-0 libpangox-1.0-0
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  exfalso gir1.2-keybinder-3.0 gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly-amr javascript-common
  liba52-0.7.4 libdvdnav4 libdvdread4 libjs-jquery libjs-sphinxdoc libjs-underscore libkeybinder-3.0-0
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Setting up quodlibet (3.8.1-0~ppa0~xenial) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu5) ...

Once the package is installed, open the Ubuntu dash and type the package name to launch it.

You can also verify the version of the Quod Libet package.

It is simple to install, isn' t it? Working with Quod Libet is also quite simple, moreover it supports several formats which includes MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack (MPC), WavPack, and MOD/XM/IT. It provides several different ways to view your audio library, as well as support for Internet radio and audio feeds. It has extremely flexible metadata tag editing and searching capabilities, using the same interface as Ex Falso.

Tag : Audio Player Ubuntu
FAQ
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"what is mean by QUODLIBET_BACKEND?
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"Can be set to the audio backend, overriding the value present in the main config file. Useful for quickly testing a different audio backend.

QUODLIBET_BACKEND=xinebe ./quodlibet.py"
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"Why are some strings not translatable?
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"If anything else is not translatable you can start QL with the following variable set:

QUODLIBET_TEST_TRANS=xx ./quodlibet.py"
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"How can I hide incomplete albums from the Album View?

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"One way is to enter #(tracks > 5) into the search box above the album list - this will only show albums with greater than 5 tracks.

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"How can I list my tracks based on their ratings?

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"Right-click somewhere on the headers bar (below the search bar), select “Track Headers” from the menu and add “Ratings”. Now if you click “Ratings” on the headers bar your tracks will be sort

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"I have two albums with the same name which are merged in the Album List?

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"Tag them with different albumartist tags. You can also use musicbrainz_albumid tags, which several other taggers and our “MusicBrainz Lookup” plugin can write.

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