{"id":6106,"date":"2016-08-06T13:49:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T13:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=6106"},"modified":"2016-08-06T13:49:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T13:49:19","slug":"museeks-music-player-based-electron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2016\/08\/museeks-music-player-based-electron\/","title":{"rendered":"Museeks &#8211; A Lightweight &#038; Stylish Music Player based on Electron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museeks-player-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museeks-player-icon.png\" alt=\"Museeks Music Player\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6107\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Museeks is an open-source music player written with Node.js, Electron and React.js. It&#8217;s free, lightweight, and works on Linux, OS X, and Windows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/KeitIG\/museeks\" target=\"_blank\">The Museeks music player<\/a> offers a light and dark user interface, and supports mp3, mp4, m4a\/aac, wav, ogg, 3gpp file formats. And it also features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Playlists<\/li>\n<li>Queue management<\/li>\n<li>Shuffle, loop<\/li>\n<li>Playback speed control<\/li>\n<li>Sleep mode blocker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museek-dark-white.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museek-dark-white-600x350.jpg\" alt=\"Museeks dark and white UI\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museek-dark-white-600x350.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museek-dark-white-450x262.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museek-dark-white.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museeks-playlist.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museeks-playlist-600x360.jpg\" alt=\"Museeks playlist\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museeks-playlist-600x360.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museeks-playlist-450x270.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museeks-playlist.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museeks-about.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museeks-about-600x360.jpg\" alt=\"museeks about page\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museeks-about-600x360.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museeks-about-450x270.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museeks-about.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Download Museeks music player:<\/h4>\n<p>The pre-compiled Linux binaries are available for download at its release page:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href='https:\/\/github.com\/KeitIG\/museeks\/releases' class='arconix-button arconix-button-medium arconix-button-gray' target=\"_blank\" >Download Museeks (zip)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>grab the <code>museeks-linux-ia32.zip<\/code> for 32-bit, and <code>museeks-linux-x64.zip<\/code> for 64-bit OS.<\/p>\n<p>To start the player, just extract and run the executable file from the result folder.<\/p>\n<h4> Install Museeks with desktop shortcuts:<\/h4>\n<p>If you like this music player, you can install it to \/opt and create a shortcut so that you can launch it from Unity Dash or App Launcher.<\/p>\n<p>1. Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and extract the downloaded zip archive to \/opt:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo unzip ~\/Downloads\/museeks-linux-*.zip -d \/opt && sudo mv \/opt\/museeks-linux* \/opt\/museeks<\/pre>\n<p>Type in your password when it asks and hit Enter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museeks-opt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museeks-opt-600x79.jpg\" alt=\"install Museeks to opt\" width=\"600\" height=\"79\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museeks-opt-600x79.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museeks-opt-450x59.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museeks-opt.jpg 893w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. Create the .desktop file for the software:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">gedit ~\/.local\/share\/applications\/museeks.desktop<\/pre>\n<p>This command creates and then opens the .desktop file with Gedit text editor. Paste below lines when it opens, and save the file.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"background:none;\">[Desktop Entry]\nVersion=1.0\nName=Museeks\nExec=\/opt\/museeks\/museeks\nTerminal=false\nType=Application\nIcon=\/opt\/museeks\/resources\/app\/src\/images\/logos\/museeks.png\nCategories=AudioVideo;Player;Audio;<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museeks-desktop.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museeks-desktop-600x270.jpg\" alt=\"museeks-desktop\" width=\"600\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museeks-desktop-600x270.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museeks-desktop-450x202.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/museeks-desktop.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After that, you should be able to launch the player from Unity Dash, or App Launcher.<\/p>\n<p>3. (Optional) To uninstall it, simply remove the <code>\/opt\/museeks<\/code> directory and the desktop file.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo rm -rf \/opt\/museeks && rm ~\/.local\/share\/applications\/museeks.desktop<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Museeks is an open-source music player written with Node.js, Electron and React.js. It&#8217;s free, lightweight, and works on Linux, OS X, and Windows. The Museeks music player offers a light and dark user interface, and supports mp3, mp4, m4a\/aac, wav, ogg, 3gpp file formats. 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