Qmmp is a popular open-source, cross-platform multimedia player, similar to Winamp and written in Qt. It has support for popular multimedia file formats, including MPEG1 layer 2/3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Opus, Native FLAC/Ogg FLAC, Musepack, WavePack, WMA, Midi.
Main features:
- XMMS and Winamp 2.x skins support
- 10-band equalizer
- MP3, Vorbis, AAC, AAC+ streams support
- video playback via Mplayer
- lyrics (using lyrics.wikia.com)
- cover art
- CUE sheet support
- embedded CUE support (for FLAC and WavPack)
- multiple playlists
- playlist formats: m3u, pls, xspf
- ReplayGain support
- Last.fm/Libre.fm scrobbler
- audio formats conveter
- external programs execution on track change
- ReplayGain scanner
The latest version available is Qmmp 1.0.5, which brings the below changes:
- added ffmpeg 3.0 support;
- added support for theme change event in the qsui plugin;
- fixed sendig multiple play commands when opening several files for playback;
- fixed memory leaks;
- fixed Qt 5.6 support (1.0.7 only).
Installation instructions:
The latest Qmmp builds are available via some third party PPA, so installing the software on Ubuntu should be a piece of cake. You just need to add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the qmmp and qmmp-plugin-pack packages:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:forkotov02/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install qmmp qmmp-plugin-pack
Optional, to remove qmmp and qmmp-plugin-pack, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove qmmp qmmp-plugin-pack
The instructions should work on Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.x, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya and other Ubuntu derivative systems.