Yarock is a music player for Linux that has just reached its version 1.13. Among other new features, the player incorporates support for new file types, support for reading new types of labels and much more. It is written in Qt, and seeks to offer a design that offers the user information about their audio files based on the album covers.
Yarock offers sort content in different views: By artist, album, track, genre, year of release and more, all based on album covers. To this we can add features such as a collection database using SQLite 3, support for playlists, playback of streams radio online, Mp3Gain tag support, scrobbler from Last.fm -some of us still use it, oddly enough-, support for favorite songs, automatic downloads of the covers and much more. Apart of this, that streams Radio that Yarock supports include Tunein, Driblle and Radionomy.
Yarock has rebido support for MPV as an alternative audio engine, as well as support for the VLC audio engine and support for rewriting the program in Qt5 -Qt4 is still supported-.
Install Yarock on Ubuntu
Unfortunately, the PPA that was used until now has been eliminated. To make things easier Andrei by WebUpd8 has repackaged the new version of Yarock in the WebUpd8 PPA. Andrei has compiled the package with Qt5 and Phonon, albeit without the included MPV audio engine. This has an explanation, and it is how outdated this engine is in the official Ubuntu repositories.
In any case, for install Yarock on Ubuntu open a terminal and run the following commands. We insist: If you installed Yarock from its previous PPA, it no longer exists and there is no point in keeping it. Before adding this make sure to delete the previous one and then add the one from WebUpd8:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install yarock
If you prefer not to add a PPA you can download a self-installing DEB package from here. If you dare to try this new version of Yarock, leave us a comment with your experience.