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I want to give the list of media players available for ubuntu users with installation instructions.

Beep Media Player

MP, or Beep Media Player, is a compact media player that was originally forked from XMMS with the goal of porting XMMS
to GTK2 and make use of more modern desktop standards. The original XMMS is based on GTK 1.2, which is now deprecated for roughly 4 years, and was deprecated at the time of the fork for approximately 2 years. This, and the fact that the developers were developing XMMS under a mostly cathedral-style model led M. Derezynski to fork BMP from XMMS.

Current Stable Version :- 0.9.7.1

Project Home Page :- http://bmp.beep-media-player.org/index.php/BMP_Homepage

Install Beep Media Player in Ubuntu

sudo aptitude install beep-media-player

This will complete the installation.Now if you want to access this application go to Applications—>Sound&Video—>Beep Media Player

Once it opens you should see the following screen

Banshee

Import, organize, play, and share your music using Banshee’s simple, powerful interface.Rip CDs, play and sync your iPod, create playlists, and burn audio and MP3 CDs. Most portable music devices are supported.Banshee also has support for podcasting, smart playlists, music recommendations, and much more.

Current Stable Version :- 0.11.5

Project Home Page :- http://bmp.beep-media-player.org/index.php/BMP_Homepage

Install Banshee in Ubuntu

sudo aptitude install banshee

This will complete the installation.Now if you want to access this application go to Applications—>Sound&Video— >Banshee Music Player

Banshee Music Player is loading

Once it opens you should see the following screen

Banshee Music Player Version Details

Rhythmbox

Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple’s iTunes. It is free software,designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media framework.

Current Stable Version :- 0.9

Project Home Page :- http://www.gnome.org/projects/rhythmbox/

Install rhythmbox in Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install rhythmbox

This will complete the installation.Now if you want to access this application go to Applications—>Sound&Video—
>Rhythmbox Music Player

Once it opens you should see the following screen

Rhythmbox Music Player Version Details

Listen

Listen is a Music player and management for GNOME Features: metadata edition, ipod management, audioscrobbler, wikipedia information, lyrics, global statistiques, burn and AudioCD, convert audio file, webradio, lastfm web service, download album cover.

Current Stable Version :- 0.5b1

Project Home Page :- http://listengnome.free.fr/

Install Listen Music Player in Ubuntu

For Dapper Users

Edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file

sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

add the following lines save and exit the file.

deb http://theli.free.fr/packages/ dapper listen

deb-src http://theli.free.fr/packages/ dapper listen

Now you need to update the source list using the following command

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install listen

For Edgy Users

You need to make sure that universe repositories and use the following command

sudo apt-get install listen

This will complete the installation.Now if you want to access this application go to Applications—>Sound&Video—
>Listen Music Player

Listen Music Player is loading

Once it opens you should see the following screen

Listen Music Player Version Details

XMMS

XMMS is a multimedia player for unix systems. XMMS stands for X MultiMedia System and can play media files such as
MP3, MOD’s, WAV and others with the use of Input plugins.XMMS is mainly targeted at music playback, but through thirdparty plugins some rudimentary video capabilities exists,but there are much better systems other than XMMS for video support.

Current Stable Version :- 1.2.0

Project Home Page :- http://www.xmms.org/

Install xmms in Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install xmms

This will complete the installation.Now if you want to access this application go to Applications—>Sound&Video—
>XMMS Music Player

Once it opens you should see the following screen

quod libet

Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player application written using the Python programming language. Its main design
goal is to provide a way for users to organize their music library however they want.One of Quod Libet’s unique features is the ability to search and construct playlists based on search terms or regularexpressions. It also scales well, making it ideal for music libraries with thousands of songs. Quod Libet includes a tag editor (also available separately as Ex Falso) which can alter the metadata of groups of files.

Current Stable Version :- 0.24

Install quodlibet in Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install quodlibet

This will complete the installation.Now if you want to access this application go to Applications—>Sound&Video—
>Quod Libet

Once it opens you should see the following screen

quod libet Music Player Version Details