Install Winamp like media player on Ubuntu. Terminal commands to install Qmmp 1.0.5 (Winamp-like music player) on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 14.10. Qmmp is a popular multimedia player similar to Winamp music player. Qmmp supports various multimedia file (video and audio) formats. Some of the most popular multimedia formats that is supported by Qmmp are MPEG1 layer 2/3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Opus, Native FLAC/Ogg FLAC, Musepack, WavePack, WMA and Midi.
Qmmp media player comes with various interesting features. Some of the notable features of the Qmmp music player are:
- XMMS and Winamp 2.x skins support
- 10-band equalizer
- MP3, Vorbis, AAC, AAC+ streams support
- video playback via Mplayer
- lyrics (using lyrics.wikia.com)
- cover art
- multiple playlists
- playlist formats: m3u, pls, xspf
- audio formats conveter
Qmmp 1.0.5 is the latest version available of the Qmmp Media Player. Qmmp 1.0.5 has been released with the following changes:
- added gnome shell support;
- fixed url dialog size;
- fixed memory leak in the qsui plugin;
- fixed ladspa plugin;
- fixed cpu usage in the vorbis plugins;
- fixed utf-8 support in the scrobbler plugin;
- fixed Greek translation;
- updated French translation.
Install Qmmp 1.0.5 Winamp like Media Player on Ubuntu
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Qmmp 1.0.5 (Winamp-like music player) on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 14.10, via PPA:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:forkotov02/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install qmmp qmmp-plugin-pack
Once installed, open the Qmmp music player from Ubuntu Dash.
If you aren’t happy with the Qmmp player, you can uninstall and remove Qmmp player by executing the following command:
$ sudo apt-get remove qmmp qmmp-plugin-pack