Xnoise 0.2.20 Gets a Real-Time Monitor, Install in Ubuntu [PPA]

Last updated: December 17, 2013

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Xnoise is a media player for GTK+ with an intuitive user interface, great speed and lots of features. It allows listening to music and playing video in a very intuitive way: You can easily search the library and drag each artist, album or title to the tracklist (to any position in any order).

The latest Xnoise 0.2.20 was released recently with real-time monitor media folders for changes, GUI improvements, bug fixes. See the changelog:

  • Redo the import dialog
  • Real-Time Monitor media folders for changes
  • Check media folders for changes that happened during the time xnoise wasn’t running
  • GUI improvements/changes
  • Change drawing of album art
  • Trim Settings dialog
  • Use application menu, only
  • Remove title-to-decoration plugin
  • Automatically activate some of the plugins
  • Use new libtaginfo API for tag reading/writing
  • Update tag editing mechanism
  • Many Bug fixes
  • update translations

Screenshots:

Xnoise Music Player in Ubuntu

Xnoise Music Player in Ubuntu

Xnoise Music Player in Ubuntu

Install Xnoise:

The latest release can be easily installed in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10 and their derivatives via PPA.

To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shkn/xnoise

Then install the player after checking for updates:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install xnoise

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