LinuxHub » Music and Audio http://linuxhub.net Making Linux Simple! Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:13:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 aTunes: A very promising music player http://linuxhub.net/2009/09/atunes-a-very-promising-music-player/ http://linuxhub.net/2009/09/atunes-a-very-promising-music-player/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:58:31 +0000 Vivek http://linuxhub.net/?p=464 atunesWe 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

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Home Page

http://gejengel.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/web/index.html

Description

Gejengel is an audio player which focuses on performance and simplicity, yet with a nice set of features.
Some key features:

  • Easy to use
  • Properly handles compilation albums (even if album artist tag is not set)
  • Lean and fast (low on dependencies)
  • Gapless playback (even for mp3 by reading encoder delay, zeropadding from files)
  • Various audio outputs (Alsa, Pulseaudio, OpenAL)
  • Last.Fm scrobbling (optional plugin)
  • Remote control through dbus (MPRIS specification) (optional plugin)

Installation

1. Download the 2 deb files gejengel and liblastfm1 .

2. We’ll have to install liblastfm1 first. Double click the liblastfm1_0.3.0-1~getdeb1_i386.deb file to install liblastfm1.

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3. Once liblastfm1 is installed, install Gejengel.

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Running Gejengel

You can start Gejengel by going to Applications > Sounds & Video > Gejengel.

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You can change preferences of Gejengel by going Edit > Preferences.

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We are done here!

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