The Qmmp player is updated to its version 1.2.0

hmmp

Some of you may have heard about Winamp, a very famous audio player that for several years was one of the most enigmatic of its time, although the project was abandoned there are some alternatives to this player.

This time I'm going to talk to you about hmmp which is a multiplatform audio player that is written in C ++ and Qt has an interface similar to Winamp or XMMS that it also offers us the possibility of adding Winamp skins.

QMMP supports many audio formats among which we find:

  • MPEG1
  • Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Opus, Ogg FLAC
  • Native FLAC
  • musepack
  • wavepack
  • mod, s3m, it, xm, etc.
  • ADTS CAA
  • Audio CDs
  • WMA, Monkey's Audio
  • PCM WAVE
  • Midi
  • 'Chiptune' formats (AY, GBS, GYM, HES, KSS, NSF, NSFE, SAP, SPC, VGM, VGZ, VTX).

Within other of the features that the player has is the ability to make use of keyboard shortcuts to quickly control audio playback, plus Qmmp always keeps memory consumption low even when it has been playing for hours.

The application has been updated to 1.2.0, with which many problems are fixed and some things are improved, within the list of changes is this:

  • Added file reader plugin (requires TagLib> = 1.11), file writer plugin and icecast output plugin.
  • Additional feature to disable notifications when another app is in full screen mode.
  • Cover tab added to track details dialog.
  • Added the implementation of the 'Raise' method to the mpris plugin.
  • Improved m3u, pls and xspf support.
  • Improved DirectSound and WASAPI support.
  • Added lame header and gapless support.
  • Added quick search to playlist and file system browser.
  • Additional function to resize the toolbar icon.
  • Added registration button.
  • Cover image alignment.
  • Low memory usage.

Qmmp on Kubuntu 13.10

The application as such has a rather poor interface, which from my point of view reminds me quite of the old interface that Winamp used. If we want to change the style of Qmmp we can search for some skins on the net as mentioned.

It is also worth mentioning that one of the defects that Qmmp has is that it does not handle a database, this means that unlike other audio players that you can import a folder with music and it is recorded, Qmmp does not have this capacity so it is merely to play.

And also speaking of the positive aspects of the audio player is that it has several plugins that we can find from its official page.

Within which I can highlight we found a Qmmp plugin for YouTube with which this add-on allows Qmmp to be able to search and play music directly from YouTube.

ZXTune Plugin, with this ZXTune based input plugin allows Qmmp to be able to play chiptunes.

How to install Qmmp on Ubuntu?

In order to install this great player on our system, we must add the following PPA and install it with the following commands:

The first will be add repository from the application to the system:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:forkotov02/ppa

Now we will proceed to update our list of repositories:

sudo apt-get update

And finally we proceed to install the app with:

sudo apt-get install qmmp

Now if we want to install a plugin to complement the player we just have to go to the page and see the available ones.

In the case of Qmmp extras, they are installed with:

sudo apt-get install qmmp-plugin-pack

In the case for the YouTube plugin:

git clone https://github.com/rigon/qmmp-plugin-youtube.git
qmake
make -j4

Now we only have to compile the plugin with the following commands and in addition to moving some libraries that are necessary.

sudo cp -v youtube/libyoutube.so /usr/lib/qmmp/Transports
sudo cp -v youtubeui/libyoutubeui.so /usr/lib/qmmp/General

And ready. Now it is only a matter of seeing the installation methods that they offer us on the plugins page, the link is this.


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