Install Qmmp Music Player, via PPA, on Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 14.04. Qmmp is a Winamp-like Mediaplayer for Linux Ubuntu Systems. The Qmmp player is a QT based, open-source, cross-platform multimedia player. Qmmp Ubuntu Mediaplayer supports and plays all the popular multimedia file formats.
The music player comes with XMMS and Winamp 2.x skins support, 10-band equalizer and MP3, Vorbis, AAC, AAC+ streams support. It also brings MMS support on experimental basis.
Other notable features include video playback via Mplayer, lyrics (using lyrics.wikia.com) and cover art, multiple playlists and audio formats conveter. The multiple playlists supports automatic charset detection for cue files and ShoutCast metadata and supports multiple formats: m3u, pls, xspf.
Qmmp 0.8.8 is the latest version of the media player and has been released with the following changes:
- fixed crash when quitting while playlist is being populated;
- fixed some skins support;
- fixed documentation;
- fixed cmake support.
The latest version of the player can be downloaded and installed on Linux Ubuntu systems. To install, open Terminal and run the following commands:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:forkotov02/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install qmmp qmmp-plugin-pack
If you aren’t happy and wish to uninstall and remove the Qmmp player, run the commands given below:
$ sudo apt-get remove qmmp qmmp-plugin-pack