Best music player for Ubuntu 17.04 Systems. A collection of best audio music player for Ubuntu and Linux Mint Systems. These best music players for Linux are cross platform music player and works as a library organizer too.
I am not including VLC player as it is the default music player for Linux Ubuntu Systems.
Rhythmbox
Rhythmbox is an audio player that plays and helps organize digital audio.It comes with the following features:
- Play various format music files from your tagged organized Library.
- Display information on the songs through meta-data reading.
- Display songs in an organized view.
- Create static playlists by dragging and dropping from the Library view.
- Create automatic playlists from criterias.
- Search for songs in the sources list like Library or Playlists.
- Listen to Internet radio stations.
- Read Audio CDs, and retrieve information like track title from the Internet.
- Burn Audio CDs from playlists.
- Transfer music to iPod, MTP and USB Mass Storage music players .
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Rhythmbox 3.4 on Linux Ubuntu Systems:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fossfreedom/rhythmbox
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rhythmbox
Audacious Music Player
Audacious is an open source audio player. Audacious supports drag and drop folders and individual song files, search for artists and albums in your entire music library, or create and edit your own custom playlists. Using Audacious, one can listen to CD’s or stream music from the Internet.
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Audacious on Ubuntu:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install audacious
Museeks Music Player
Museeks is a lightweight and cross-platform music player for Ubuntu Linux Systems. Museeks music player uses Node.js for back-end, electron (used to be atom-shell) for embedded browser and React.js as front-end framework.
Open Terminal and run the following commands to install Museek music player on Linux Ubuntu:
On 32bit Ubuntu
cd ~/Downloads
wget https://github.com/KeitIG/museeks/releases/download/0.7.0/museeks-linux-ia32.zip
sudo unzip ~/Downloads/museeks-linux-*.zip -d /opt
sudo mv /opt/museeks-linux* /opt/museeks
On 64bit Ubuntu
cd ~/Downloads
wget https://github.com/KeitIG/museeks/releases/download/0.7.0/museeks-linux-x64.zip
sudo unzip ~/Downloads/museeks-linux-*.zip -d /opt
sudo mv /opt/museeks-linux* /opt/museeks
Lollypop Music Player
Lollypop music player is a wonderful no-frills music player for Linux Systems. It can play almost every music format (audio) and can also get artists and tracks information from the web. To install Lollypop music player on Ubuntu, run the command given below:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnumdk/lollypop
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lollypop
SMPlayer
SMPlayer media player for Ubuntu comes with built-in codecs and play all audio and video formats. SMPlayer is a free media player for Linux, with built-in codecs that can play virtually all video and audio formats. It doesn’t need any external codecs. Just install SMPlayer and you’ll be able to play all formats without the hassle to find and install codec packs.
Run the following commands in Terminal to install SMPlayer via PPA, on Ubuntu:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rvm/smplayer
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install smplayer
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