{"id":4517,"date":"2015-01-12T15:19:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T15:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4517"},"modified":"2015-01-12T15:19:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T15:19:01","slug":"install-quod-libet-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/01\/install-quod-libet-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Latest Quod Libet Music Player in Ubuntu 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/QuodLibet-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/QuodLibet-icon.png\" alt=\"QuodLibet-icon\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/QuodLibet-icon.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/QuodLibet-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quod Libet is an open-source music player, tag editor and library organizer that is able to handle libraries with over 10,000 songs. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quod_Libet_(software)\" target=\"_blank\">Quod Libet<\/a> is a GTK+ based audio player written in Python, using the Mutagen tagging library. The main design philosophy is that the user knows how they want to organize their music best and is built to be fully customizable and extensible using regular expressions.<\/p>\n<p>The player works on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, it supports most of the features you&#8217;d expect from a modern media player: Unicode support, advanced tag editing, Replay Gain, podcasts &#038; internet radio, album art support and all major audio formats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/quodlibet-musicplayer.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/quodlibet-musicplayer-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"Quodlibet Music Player\" width=\"610\" height=\"305\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/quodlibet-musicplayer-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/quodlibet-musicplayer-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/quodlibet-musicplayer.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Install\/Upgrade Quod Libet in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>While Ubuntu repositories provide an old version of this software, you can get the latest version (3.3.1 so far) from <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~lazka\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ppa\" title=\"Quod Libet PPA\" target=\"_blank\">its PPA repository<\/a> and receive future updates. Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 15.04 and Linux mint are supported so far.<\/p>\n<p>To add the PPA, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal and run:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:lazka\/ppa<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/add-quodlibet-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/add-quodlibet-ppa.jpg\" alt=\"Add Quod Libet PPA\" width=\"600\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/add-quodlibet-ppa.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/add-quodlibet-ppa-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After that, upgrade Quod Libet from an old version by running <i>Software Updater<\/i> and installing updates. <\/p>\n<p>Or run below commands one by one to install it:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install quodlibet<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quod Libet is an open-source music player, tag editor and library organizer that is able to handle libraries with over 10,000 songs. 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