It’s been more than 8 years since the last 1.3.1 stable. Clementine, the old popular music player and library organizer, finally got a new stable release!
Clementine is a free open-source music player inspired by Amarok 1.4. It provides an easy to use Qt5 user interface to play and manage large music collections, while keeping fast and lightweight.
Besides local music playback, the player also supports internet radios, such as last.fm, radio-browser.info, Subsonic. And, it can search and play you music from cloud, including Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and more.
Moreover, it provides handy tools to transcode music, open and rip audio CD. See Clementine website for more about it.
Audacious, the popular lightweight audio player, released new 4.4 version this Wednesday!
The new release of this free open-source music player restores Lyrics plugin for GTK interface, and adds new provider chartlyrics.com. Thanks to Michel Fleur, there’s now “Background Music” plugin, under “Effect” tab in the Plugin page, allows to make the sound equally loud within and between tracks.
The Scrobbler (Last.fm) plugin now also works on macOS and Windows. And, the Song Change plugin now allows to run custom command when a song is stopped.
Audacious 4.4 now defaults to GTK3 + Qt6, though Qt5 and GTK2 are still supported. It improved Wayland support for GTK interface, but the classic Winamp interface does NOT work properly on Wayland, thus users are recommended to run Audacious via XWayland (default behavior if available) therefore.
Other changes in Audacious 4.4 include:
Add Disc Number support
Read ReplayGain values in Opus files from R128 tags
For Ubuntu users, it’s available to install via Ubuntu PPA (native .deb package), Snap package, or Flatpak package (runs in sandbox environment).
Method 1: Audacious Snap package
If you’re OK running the audio player in sandbox environment, then Audacious is easy to install through Ubuntu Software (or App Center) as Snap package.
Method 2. Install Audacious via Flatpak
Most Linux can install the audio player as Flatpak package, that runs in sandbox. So far, it supports amd64 and arm64 platforms.
All current Ubuntu user can press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal and run the 2 commands below one by one to get it.
After installation, search for and launch it from start menu or Gnome overview. Log out and back in if app icon not visible.
Method 3. Install Audacious from Ubuntu PPA
For Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.10, and Ubuntu 24.04 users, I’ve uploaded the new release package into PPA for amd64 and arm64/armhf machines.
Changes in the PPA package:
Packages for Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 20.04 are built with Qt5 + GTK3, since Qt6 is NOT available.
Qt6 + GTK3 for Ubuntu 22.04 and higher.
The dependency library name changes that follow upstream policy in Ubuntu 24.04:
libaudcore5 -> libaudcore5t64
libaudgui5 -> libaudgui5t64
libaudqt2 -> libaudqt2t64
libaudtag3 -> libaudtag3t64
1. First, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps
Type user password (no visual feedback, just type in mind) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.
2. Then, update system package cache:
sudo apt update
3. If you have an old version of the music player installed, you can now update the package to the latest using “Software Updater” utility.
Or, run the command below in terminal to install or upgrade the package:
sudo apt install audacious audacious-plugins
NOTE: For Ubuntu 22.04 runs into “Error opening output stream” issue, open “Settings” and set audio output plugin to “PulseAudio” output.
Uninstall Audacious
To remove the audio player installed as Flatpak, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and use command:
Also clean up runtime library via flatpak uninstall --unused.
If you want to restore the music player to the stock version available in system repository. Run command below to purge PPA as well as downgrade installed packages:
Pragha 1.4 Release Candidate, a lightweight continuation of the Consonance music player, was released a few days ago with new features, performance improvements and some fixes.
After 4 beta releases, Pragha 1.4 RC (1.3.99) may be the last before the 1.4 stable release. The new 1.4 RC features:
First implementation of Favorites as a playlist.
Sync favorites with Koel and Last.Fm.
New Visualizer plugin.
Use Alt+Return shortcut to edit the selected song.
Add progress indicator to the search entry while it works.
Remember last pane used on song info plugin.
Allows to customize the styles to the distro packagers.
How to Install Pragha RC in Ubuntu:
There’s an unofficial PPA that contains the latest Pragha packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10, and Linux Mint 18.x/19.
1. Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for “terminal” from app launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
After nearly a year of development, Audacious audio player 3.10 was finally released yesterday. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Linux Mint 19 and 18.
Audacious 3.10, code-named “Not Quite There Yet”, added following new features:
Shuffle history is remembered at exit to avoid repeating songs
Exported M3U and PLS playlists now use relative paths by default
Recursively adding subfolders to the playlist is now optional
The URL history shown in the Add/Open URL dialogs can be cleared
Toolbar buttons in the GTK UI now show tooltip hints
The adplug input plugin has a new settings window
The Search Tool can be configured to scan for new files at startup
The number of results shown in the Search Tool is now configurable
The Delete Files plugin is clearer about which files will be deleted
Icons from the desktop theme are used more consistently
Scalable icons are now used on Windows for better high-DPI support
The bottom info bar now matches the color tone of dark themes
The soxr resampler has some new, more detailed settings
There are also many UI improvements and various bug-fixes. See the previous link for details.
How to Install Audacious 3.10 in Ubuntu:
You can install the new release packages in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and their derivatives via the unofficial PPA.
1. Open terminal by either pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard or searching for ‘terminal’ from software launcher. When it opens, run command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
Type your password (no asterisks feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.
2. Then you can upgrade Audacious via Software Updater:
or run commands one by one in terminal to install or upgrade the audio player:
Foobar2000, the popular music player for Windows platform, now can be easily installed in Ubuntu via snap, the universal Linux app packaging format.
This is a Wine based snap package maintained by an open-source project. With it, you can simply install it either via Ubuntu Software or by running a single command.
1. For Ubuntu 16.04 users never installed a snap package, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to install snapd:
sudo apt install snapd snapd-xdg-open
2. Then install foobar2000 via command:
snap install foobar2000 --classic
--classic flag is required to be able to access files outside the installation directory.
3. To make it work, you still need to run following 3 commands one by one:
Rhythmbox, Ubuntu’s default music playing application, got a new release update after a year of development.
Besides removing visualization plugin, Rhythmbox 3.4.2 features responsiveness improvements during media player sync, better network buffering when crossfading is enabled, and various bug-fixes (or feature request) including:
Critical Assertion Errors
Add --version command option.
Rhythmbox crashed with SIGSEGV during import
Expand playing icon column in entry view
Import hangs for special file
Playqueue UI improvements
Memory leak in error handling of utimes on podcast-timestamp
Open settings crashes the app
build failure with gcc 7.1.1
Keyboard navigation with tab is broken by search entry widget
How to Install Rhythmbox 3.4.2 in Ubuntu:
The project leader for Ubuntu Budgie, fossfreedom, was maintaining PPA with Rhythmbox package and its plugins, though they are not updated for a period of time.
So I uploaded Rhythmbox 3.4.2 into the PPA, available for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, and Ubuntu 17.10.
1. Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T and run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps
Input your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it prompts and hit Enter.
2. Then upgrade the music playing application via Software Updater:
or upgrade your system via command:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
How to remove:
To revert back to stock version of Rhythmbox in your Ubuntu, purge the PPA as well as downgrade the player via command:
Sayonara is a small and lightweight Linux music player written in C++ with Qt5 framework. It uses Gstreamer as audio backend.
Although Sayoanra is considered as a lightweight player, it holds a lot of features like:
Organize even big music collections.
ID3-tag editor
Equalizer
MP3 converter
Podcasts
Webstreams
Stream recorder
Speed adjustment
Dynamic playlists
Radio broadcasting
Audio track bookmarks with optional loop function
Install Sayonara player in Ubuntu:
Sayonara now is at the 0.9.1 release which features cover support in ID3 tag editor, Crossfader support, faster spectrum analyzer, Soma.fm, Last.fm and other improvements, and also lots of bug-fixes.
To install the latest Sayonara 0.9.1 in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 17, 18, do:
1. Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and add the official Sayonara PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lucioc/sayonara
2. Update and install the player via commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install sayonara
For those who don’t want to add PPA, grab .deb package from the PPA file archive.
3. (Optional) If you dislike the player, simply remove it via command:
sudo apt remove sayonara && sudo apt autoremove
And the PPA can be removed via Software & Updates utility under Other Software tab.
Qmmp, Qt-based audio player with winamp or xmms like user interface, now is at 0.9.0 release. PPA updated for Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and derivatives.
Qmmp 0.9.0 is a big release with many new features, improvements and some translation updates. It added:
audio-channel sequence converter;
9 channels support to equalizer;
album artist tag support;
asynchronous sorting;
sorting by file modification date;
sorting by album artist;
multiple column support;
feature to hide track length;
feature to disable plugins without qmmp.pri modification (qmake only)
feature to remember playlist scroll position;
feature to exclude cue data files;
feature to change user agent;
feature to change window title;
feature to reset fonts;
feature to restore default shortcuts;
default hotkey for the “Rename List” action;
feature to disable fadeout in the gme plugin;
Simple User Interface (QSUI) with the following changes:
added multiple column support;
added sorting by album artist;
added sorting by file modification date;
added feature to hide song length;
added default hotkey for the “Rename List” action;
added “Save List” action to the tab menu;
added feature to reset fonts;
added feature to reset shortcuts;
improved status bar;
It also improved playlist changes notification, playlist container, sample rate converter, cmake build scripts, title formatter, ape tags support in the mpeg plugin, fileops plugin, reduced cpu usage, changed default skin (to Glare) and playlist separator.
Install Qmmp 0.9.0 in Ubuntu:
New release has been made into PPA, available for all current Ubuntu releases and derivatives.
