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How To Install Cantata 2.1 (Music Player) On Ubuntu

By Sourabh /  Category: How To, Ubuntu

Cantata music player for Linux Ubuntu Systems. How to install cantata 2.1 (music player) on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 14.10 Systems. Cantata is a graphical client for MPD, supporting the following features:

  1. Support for Qt4, Qt5, KDE, MacOSX, and Windows.
  2. Multiple MPD collections.
  3. Highly customisable layout.
  4. Songs grouped by album in play queue.
  5. Context view to show artist, album, and song information of current track.
  6. Simple tag editor.
  7. File organizer – use tags to organize files and folders.
  8. Ability to calculate ReplyGain tags. (Linux only, and if relevant libraries installed)
  9. Dynamic playlists.
  10. Online services; Jamendo, Magnatune, SoundCloud, and Podcasts.
  11. Radio stream support – with the ability to search for streams via TuneIn, ShoutCast, or Dirble.
  12. USB-Mass-Storage and MTP device support. (Linux only, and if relevant libraries installed)
  13. Audio CD ripping and playback. (Linux only, and if relevant libraries installed)
  14. Playback of non-MPD songs – via simple in-built HTTP server if connected to MPD via a standard socket, otherwise filepath is sent to MPD.
  15. MPRISv2 DBUS interface.
  16. Support for KDE global shortcuts (KDE builds), GNOME media keys (Linux only), and standard media keys (via Qxt)
  17. Ubuntu/ambiance theme integration – including dragging of window via toolbar.
  18. Basic support for touch-style interface (views are made ‘flickable’)
  19. Scrobbling.
  20. Ratings support.

Cantata started off as a fork of QtMPC, mainly to provide better KDE integration – by using KDE libraries/classes wherever possible. However, the code (and user interface) is now very different to that of QtMPC, and both KDE and Qt (Linux) builds have the same feature set. Also, as of 1.4.0, by default Cantata is built as a Qt-only application (with no KDE dependencies)

Cantata 2.1.0

Cantata 2.1.0 is the latest version of the Cantata music player. The Cantata 2.1.0 has been released with the below changes and fixes:

  • Re-add all album sorts from Cantata 1.x
  • Try to detect DLNA streams (e.g. when using upmpdcli), and show as regular albums in grouped view.
  • Add option to use user’s configured icon theme, and not Cantata’s supplied theme. Option needs to be manually set in config file. See README for details.
  • Add filename / path to list of dynamic rule properties.

Install Cantata on Ubuntu

Cantata can be installed in two different versions – KDE and Qt. Install Cantata on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr and Linux Mint 17.x using KDE:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/cantata
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install cantata

Install Cantata Qt (version) on Ubuntu Systems:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/cantata-qt
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install cantata

Once installed, open the Cantata music player from Ubuntu Dash.

If you aren’t happy with the Cantata and wish to uninstall it, run the command given below:

$ sudo apt-get remove cantata