News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
DeadBeef, the lightweight music player application for Linux, Windows, and macOS, released new 1.10.2 version few days ago.
This free open-source music player released version 1.10.1 last week with new Lyrics Viewer plugin. User can enable “Design” mode and add Lyrics widget to show the lyrics for the song being played.
Fooyin, the free open-source Foobar2000 inspired music player, released new 0.9.0 (and 0.9.1 with quick fixes) version few days ago.
In case you didn’t know Fooyin, it’s a music player features Foobar2000 look like appearance and Qt6-based user interface designed for KDE desktop.
Fooyin Music Player
After more than a month of beta testing, Audacious music player version 4.5 was finally released today!
The new release of this lightweight free open-source player features new plugin, new lyrics provider, and various other improvements. See what’s new & how to install for Ubuntu users.
Amarok, the free open-source KDE music player, released new 3.3 version on Tuesday, named “Far Above the Clouds”.
Amarok is one of the oldest Linux music player started in 2003. It’s revived in last year with port to Qt5 and KF5. By releasing v3.3, Amarok is now ported to Qt6/KF6, while Qt5/KF5 support has been dropped.
Foobar2000 fans? Here’s a similar music player designed for Linux with KDE Plasma, LxQt, etc Qt based desktop environments.
As you may know, Foobar2000 does not support Linux, but it can be installed through Wine. And, Ubuntu users can search & install the wine based version of the music player (unofficial) in App Center (or Ubuntu Software) through Snap package which runs in sandbox environment.
Fooyin Music Player
Audacious audio player announced the 4.5 beta release few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu using PPA.
The new release of this lightweight free open-source XMMS fork added new plugins, new lyrics provider, fixed various bugs, and improved PipeWire output support.
After more than a year since the last release, DeaDBeef music player is finally updated version v1.10.0 few days ago.
The new release add support for FFmpeg 7, so it builds in recent Linux Distributions (e.g, Ubuntu 24.10 and Fedora 41) without patch. The release also introduced some new features and various bug-fixes.
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.
Clementine Music Player
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:
The software website provides official .exe files for Microsoft Windows users:
For Ubuntu users, it’s available to install via Ubuntu PPA (native .deb package), Snap package, or Flatpak package (runs in sandbox environment).
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.
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.
sudo apt install flatpak
flatpak install https://dl.flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.atheme.audacious.flatpakref
After installation, search for and launch it from start menu or Gnome overview. Log out and back in if app icon not visible.
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:
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.
To remove the audio player installed as Flatpak, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and use command:
flatpak uninstall --delete-data org.atheme.audacious
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:
sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps
Or, simply remove the software packages by running command:
sudo apt remove audacious audacious-plugins-data
And remove the PPA either via “Software & Updates” under ‘Other Software’ tab or use command:
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps
That’s all. Enjoy!
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:
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:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/pragha
Type your user password (no asterisks feedback while typing due to security reason) when it prompts and hit Enter.
2. Then install the music player either via Synaptic Package Manager or by running commands:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install pragha
Uninstall Pragha:
To remove the music player, either use Synaptic Package Manager or run command in terminal:
sudo apt-get remove --autoremove pragha
And you can remove the PPA via Software & Updates utility under ‘Other Software’ tab.
