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How to Install Xnoise Media Player in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Last updated: January 4, 2014

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Xnoise, a GTK media player with intuitive user interface and great speed now is available for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty in its PPA.

Xnoise 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).

Xnoise has a whole lot of features. Among these are:

  • Simple GUI without clutter
  • Fast(!) searchable media library
  • Album Art view for a convenient view on album cover images
  • Music and Video support
  • Equalizer with sound presets
  • Automatic media folder monitoring
  • Integrated ID3/Xiph/Wma/Ape/… tag editing
  • Automatic album art fetching
  • Android device and other media player support
  • ‘Now playing’ pane
  • State restore
  • Can play virtually all media via GStreamer
  • Media key support
  • Lightweight and speedy!
  • Optional Ubuntu unity integration (Quicklists, HUD, ..)
  • Plugins for MPRIS, Magnatune, LastFm (album art and scrobbling), Lyrics fetching, Notifications, Ubuntu Soundmenu, …
  • Available for a lot of different languages

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    Xnoise Music Player in Ubuntu

    Xnoise Music Player in Ubuntu

    Xnoise Music Player in Ubuntu

    Install Xnoise:

    Add the PPA to get the latest version of Xnoise. To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it open run command to add the PPA:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shkn/xnoise

    After that, install the media player after checking for updates:

    sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install xnoise
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    Xnoise 0.2.20 Gets a Real-Time Monitor, Install in Ubuntu [PPA]

    Last updated: December 17, 2013

    install xnoise ubuntu ppa

    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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    Xnoise 0.2.19 Released, Install in Ubuntu & Linux Mint via PPA

    Last updated: September 18, 2013

    Xnoise Media Player 0.2.19 has been released with some internal updates, new translation updates and some GUI changes. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint.

    xnoise 0.2.19 ubuntu 12.04

    Changes in Xnoise 0.2.19:

    • Don’t ignore last song in random mode.
    • GUI updates
    • Allow compilation with valac 0.22
    • Changes for Settings dialog
    • AsyncQueues for background worker threads
    • Add media browser visibility option to app menu
    • Media browser rendering fixes for Adwaita
    • Fix rendering of background on Manjaro + Adwaita
    • Desktop file fixes
    • Localization fixes
    • More bug fixes
    • update translations

    Install Xnoise 0.2.19

    The Xnoise PPA is ready for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal. Due to dependency problem, you need to install gstream1.0 in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise. To get started, follow the steps below:

    1.) Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below command to add Xnoise PPA:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shkn/xnoise

    2.) For Ubuntu 12.04 Precise only, run blow command to add the gstreamer developer ppa:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gstreamer-developers/ppa

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports

    Edit Xnoise repository by running below command:

    sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/shkn-xnoise-precise.list

    Change precise to quantal and save the file.

    3.) Update package lists and install the player:

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

    That’s it. Enjoy!

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