Top music player in Linux Part - 2

Installation of Top music players in Linux

Qmmp musical player

qmmp is a free and open-source audio player written in C++ with the help of the Qt library. It is the only audio player not featuring a database that uses the Qt library.

Features

• Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and MP3 music playback support
• Automatic album-cover fetching
• Support for embedded ID3v2 album images
• ReplayGain support
• Support for multiple artist and performer tags per song
• A system tray icon
• Plugin support

To install qmmp music player in your Ubuntu machine

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# apt-get install qmmp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  freepats i965-va-driver libaacs0 libavcodec-ffmpeg56 libavformat-ffmpeg56
  libavutil-ffmpeg54 libbdplus0 libbluray1 libbs2b0 libcddb2 libcrystalhd3
  libenca0 libfaad2 libgme0 libgsm1 libmms0 libmodplug1 libmpcdec6
  libopenjpeg5 libopusfile0 libschroedinger-1.0-0 libshine3 libsidplayfp4
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Setting up vdpau-va-driver:amd64 (0.7.4-5) ...
Setting up va-driver-all:amd64 (1.7.0-1) ...
Setting up vdpau-driver-all:amd64 (1.1.1-3ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...

Open your qmmp player

Quod Libet Music player

Quod Libet is a cross-platform free and open-source audio player, tag editor and library organizer. It is based on GTK+ and written in Python, and uses the Mutagen tagging library. Quod Libet is very scalable, able to handle libraries with tens of thousands of songs with ease. It provides a full feature set including support for Unicode, regular expression searching, key bindings to multimedia keys, fast but powerful tag editing, and an variety of plugins.

Features

• Can deal with various audio back-ends via the plug-in architecture of GStreamer.
• Supports Replay Gain with smart selection based on either single track or full album, based on current view and play order.
• Complete Unicode support.
• Changes to multiple files at once, even if files are in different formats.
• Fast refreshing of entire library based on changed files.
• It supports MP3, OggVorbis, Opus, FLAC, Musepack, MOD/XM/IT WMA, Wavpack, MPEG-4 AAC.

To install Quod Libet Music player

Execute the following command to install Quod Libet Music player

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# apt-get install quodlibet
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  exfalso fonts-font-awesome fonts-lato gir1.2-keybinder-3.0 javascript-common
  libdiscid0 libjs-jquery libjs-modernizr libjs-sphinxdoc libjs-underscore
  libkeybinder-3.0-0 libtidy-0.99-0 python-cairo python-cddb python-chardet
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Setting up python-musicbrainz2 (0.7.4-2) ...
Setting up python-pyinotify (0.9.6-0fakesync1) ...
Setting up python-utidylib (0.2-9build1) ...
Setting up quodlibet (3.5.3-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...

Dead beef music player

Dead beef is a lightweight yet feature-rich audio player for Linux. Most of external plugins supported by DeaDBeeF are written in C++ and interface uses GTK2.
One of the major features it holds above many audio players is low memory consumption. It can play large number of formats including but not limited to: mp3, ogg, wav, m4a etc.
To download Dead beef by below link, you can download through browser or download using by wget command and extract the downloaded file.

https://launchpad.net/~starws-box/+archive/ubuntu/deadbeef-player

After download and extract the file then do the following steps

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Downloads#cd deadbeef-0.7.1/
root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Downloads/deadbeef-0.7.1# ls
deadbeef deadbeef.png doc locale pixmaps plugins 

Now run the deadbeef file by below method

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Downloads/deadbeef-0.7.1# ./deadbeef

Banshee music player

Banshee is an open source, complete audio playback and management solution for Linux-based operating systems. This software organizes your entire music collection automatically, and it is fully compatible with the GNOME desktop environment.

Features

This application allows you to import Audio-CDs, sync your entire music collection to an iPod or Android device, or play music directly from a supported MP3 audio player device or smartphone.
You can create playlists with tracks from your music library, create Audio-CDs and MP3 CDs from subsets of your library, keep up with your favorite podcasts, and listen to Internet radio stations.

To install banshee music player

[root@linuxhelp user1]# dnf install banshee
Failed to synchronize cache for repo ' fedora.com'  from ' http://www.fedora.com' : repomd.xml parser error: Element  was not found - Bad repomd file, disabling.
Failed to synchronize cache for repo ' etc_dnf_www.fedora.com'  from ' file:///etc/dnf/www.fedora.com' : Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried, disabling.
Failed to synchronize cache for repo ' tiliado-nuvolaplayer'  from ' https://tiliado.eu/nuvolaplayer/repository/rpm/fc23/x86_64/' : Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried, disabling.
Last metadata expiration check performed 0:12:47 ago on Sat Apr 30 15:20:10 2016.
Dependencies resolved.
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 Package              Arch      Version                        Repository  Size
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Installing:
 ORBit2               x86_64    2.14.19-14.fc23                fedora     180 k
 banshee              x86_64    2.6.2-15.fc23                  updates    3.5 M
 dbus-sharp           x86_64    1:0.7.0-14.fc23                fedora      84 k
 dbus-sharp-glib      x86_64    0.5.0-12.fc23                  fedora      16 k
 gamin                x86_64    0.1.10-22.fc23                 updates    124 k
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 notify-sharp         x86_64    0.4.0-0.25.20100411svn.fc23    fedora      20 k
 taglib-sharp         x86_64    2.0.3.7-14.fc23                fedora     182 k
 webkitgtk            x86_64    2.4.11-1.fc23                  updates     12 M

Transaction Summary
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Install  28 Packages

Total download size: 22 M
Installed size: 83 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
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 libgpod-sharp.x86_64 0.8.3-10.fc23                                            
  mono-addins.x86_64 1.1-2.fc23                                                 
  mono-zeroconf.x86_64 0.9.0-15.fc23                                            
  notify-sharp.x86_64 0.4.0-0.25.20100411svn.fc23                               
  taglib-sharp.x86_64 2.0.3.7-14.fc23                                           
  webkitgtk.x86_64 2.4.11-1.fc23                                                

Complete!

[root@linuxhelp user1]# banshee