The Qmmp multimedia player has reached version 0.8.5, bringing new features and fixes.
Qmmp is a popular open-source, cross-platform multimedia player, similar to Winamp and written in Qt. It has support for popular multimedia file formats, including MPEG1 layer 2/3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Opus, Native FLAC/Ogg FLAC, Musepack, WavePack, WMA, Midi.
Main features:
- 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
- CUE sheet support
- embedded CUE support (for FLAC and WavPack)
- multiple playlists
- playlist formats: m3u, pls, xspf
- ReplayGain support
- Last.fm/Libre.fm scrobbler
- audio formats conveter
- external programs execution on track change
- ReplayGain scanner
The latest version available is Qmmp 0.8.5, which has been released yesterday, coming with the below changes:
- added user data directory support;
- increased player thread priority under windows;
- fixed playlist resizing on RTL locales;
- fixed vorbis comment support;
- fixed build using qmake;
- fixed cover disappearing bug;
- fixed settings form;
- fixed problem with path separators under windows;
- fixed libre.fm support;
- fixed some skin parsing;
- fixed support of some skins;
- fixed modplug plugin settings.
Installation instructions:
The latest Qmmp builds are available via some third party PPA, so installing the software on Ubuntu should be a piece of cake. You just need to add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the qmmp and qmmp-plugin-pack packages:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:forkotov02/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install qmmp qmmp-plugin-pack
Optional, to remove qmmp and qmmp-plugin-pack, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove qmmp qmmp-plugin-pack
The instructions should work on all the supported Ubuntu systems and their derivatives: Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Deepin 2014, Peppermint 6, Peppermint 5, LXLE 14.04 and Linux Lite 2.