aTunes: A very promising music player

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atunes We like music and keep discovering new ways of playing them on Linux. aTunes is another player that looks to make it big in the race of music players available for Linux.

aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems, …

Currently plays mp3, ogg, wma, wav, flac, mp4 and radio streaming, allowing users to easily edit tags, organize music and rip Audio CDs.

Features of aTunes

Following are few features of aTunes player:

Supported formats: mp3, ogg, wma, wav, flac, mp4, m4a, ra, rm, cue
Download the current track’s video from youtube.
Suggestion for related songs
Online radio supported
Player engine: mplayer for all environments, xine for Linux systems
Volume control, mute function
Karaoke function
Equalizer
Normalization
Shuffle and repeat options
OSD (On-screen display)
Hotkeys

Installation

Installing aTunes on Ubuntu is fairly simple. All you need to do is to download the deb file (Download link in the Links section) of aTunes and double click to install it. Make sure you have Java 6 Runtime Environment installed on Ubuntu.

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Once installed you can run aTunes by going to Applications > Sound & Video > aTunes

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Links

Home Page

http://www.atunes.org/

Download

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/atunes/atunes_1.13.3-1_all.deb

This entry was posted by Vivek on September 9, 2009 at 1:28 am, and is filed under Featured, Linux, Ubuntu. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0.You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.

sofie

Hi,

Great. Thanks for your useful how-to. Great work. Does it have networksupport, just like Rhythmbox.

Sofie
sofie

Hi,

Great. Thanks for your useful how-to. Great work. Does it have networksupport, just like Rhythmbox.

Sofie
http://vasiauvi.blogspot.com/ vasiauvi

Hy,
Yes, this is a nice music player. I have used it on OpenSuse and I liked it.
Now I’am using Ubuntu with Amarok but I will sure install aTunes.
Thanks!
http://vasiauvi.blogspot.com vasiauvi

Hy,
Yes, this is a nice music player. I have used it on OpenSuse and I liked it.
Now I’am using Ubuntu with Amarok but I will sure install aTunes.
Thanks!
http://www.clapico.com/ Clapico

Thanks, I translated this post on my French Blog
http://www.clapico.com Clapico

Thanks, I translated this post on my French Blog
http://linuxhub.net/ Vivek

@Clapico,

It’s amazing that you are translating and sharing to reach a wider audience. That’s the essence of open source. I am planning to soon have creative common licensing for my site so authors like you can translate, copy and publish this stuff without permission . Your blog looks great! Subscribed I hope you are leaving the credits to LinuxHub on the translated post
http://linuxhub.net Vivek

@Clapico,

It’s amazing that you are translating and sharing to reach a wider audience. That’s the essence of open source. I am planning to soon have creative common licensing for my site so authors like you can translate, copy and publish this stuff without permission . Your blog looks great! Subscribed I hope you are leaving the credits to LinuxHub on the translated post
rAX

I used to love this player, I was using it on my windows and linux but recently I removed it from Linux, the only bad thing about it is Java, I hate programs made with Java, they are so slow.
rAX

I used to love this player, I was using it on my windows and linux but recently I removed it from Linux, the only bad thing about it is Java, I hate programs made with Java, they are so slow.