Euphonica MPD Client added official Flatpak package for Linux

Euphonica, the modern GTK4 based MPD client, finally added official package for Linux. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu desktop.

For those who never heard of Euphonica, it’s a client app for Music Player Daemon (MPD) that provides a modern user interface for managing large local music collection (tens of thousands of songs).

It uses GTK4 + LibAdwaita for a modern UI designed for GNOME (though also works in other desktops), and support basic MPD features, such as playback control, queue reordering, ReplayGain, crossfade and MixRamp configuration.

It can automatically fetch album arts, artist avatars from Last.fm and Music Brainz, and use the current album art for the app window background.

There are also synced song lyrics support through either the 2 external sources alongwith LRCLIB or local files, as well as MPRIS integration, allowing to control you MPD instance via keyboard shortcuts and shell applets without having to keep the app window open.

As you see in the screenshot, the client also has a built-in visualiser, which can read from either FIFO output (not work for Flatpak so far due to sandboxing) or PipeWire output. And, it provides few basic options to switch between and configure them.

Other features include:

Playlist browser and editor.
Album, artist, and folder view.
Asynchronous search for large collections.
Volume knob with dBFS readout support.
Laze init for smoother performance.
Manage MPD sound output.

As a young application, it’ll keep updating with new features and improvements. See it in Github page for more details.

See more screenshots about Euphonica:

Install Euphonica via the new Flatpak package

The app added official Flatpak package, a few days ago, for running the MPD client in sandbox on most Linux (amd64 and arm64).

Linux Mint 21+ and Fedora Workstation (with third party repository enabled) may search & install it from either Software Manager or GNOME Software.

Euphonica in Mint software manager

Tips: the Flatpak package is NOT verified at the moment, though officially maintained by software developers, so you may need to configure your Software Manager first before being able to install it.

For Debian, Ubuntu, and other Linux, do the steps below one by one to install the package:

First, run command in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) to install the Flatpak daemon package:
```
sudo apt install flatpak
```
Other Linux may follow the official setup guide for Flatpak support

Next, use the command to install the Flatpak app package:

flatpak install https://dl.flathub.org/repo/appstream/io.github.htkhiem.Euphonica.flatpakref

For future updates, run the command to check & install:
```
flatpak update io.github.htkhiem.Euphonica
```

NOTE: After enabled Flatpak support, you need a log out and back in to apply environment variable changes, or you won’t see the app icon from menu.

And for beginners, you need to install & setup MPD daemon before being able to play & manage your local music collection.

Uninstall:

To uninstall Euphonica MPD client, use command:

flatpak uninstall --delete-data io.github.htkhiem.Euphonica

Here skip --delete-data if you want to keep local app data, and run flatpak uninstall --unused to remove useless run-times (e.g., Gnome platform which was also installed in sandbox).