Install Rhythmbox 3.3 and all its plugins

En Ubunlog We usually pay a lot of attention to the day-to-day life of audio players. Therefore, we always bring you the latest news of the best players that we can find today for Linux.

This time we bring you Rhythmbox 3.3 and we want to show you the main features of the latest version of this player, in addition to showing you how we can install it on our Ubuntu. We started.

Rhythmbox is an audio player spirit under the GPL license. If you are Ubuntu GNOME users, or any other distro with GNOME as a desktop environment, perhaps this player is already familiar to you since it is the player that comes pre-installed on distros with GNOME, making use of the GStreamer media framework.

Although if you don't have it installed yet, you can do it as usual through the Terminal, adding the corresponding repository, updating it and proceeding to install the Rhythmbox package. These is what we have to run to install it:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: fossfreedom / rhythmbox

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install rhythmbox

We can reproduce all audio formats supported by GStreamersuch as .mp3 o ogg. In addition, GStreamer manages the formats through plugins, so the formats that we can reproduce will depend on the ones we have installed. To install all the necessary plugins, we can also do it through the terminal by executing:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: fossfreedom / rhythmbox-plugins

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-complete

With this great player, we can listen to the radio online, integrate our iPod, burn Audio CDs, share music and listen podcast. These are its main characteristics:

• Intuitive and easy-to-use music browser
• Search and sort music collections
• Audio format support through GStreamer
• Internet radio support
• Automatic and customizable playlists
• Transfer music from iPod or other mass storage devices via MTP and USB
• Ability to view CD covers and song lyrics
• Play and burn audio CDs
• Download podcasts automatically
• Search, preview, and download music albums
• Ease of adding plugins and new features

En Ubunlog We are aware that there is a wide variety of audio players, each with its own peculiarities, yet we hope that you give this player a chance that will leave us indifferent. Of course, you can leave us your opinions about Rhythmbox or the players you use.