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
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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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:
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
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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:
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.
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:
