HOW TO INSTALL AMAROK MUSIC PLAYER IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A BEST LINUX MUSIC PLAYER

Introduction

In this article we are going to learn How to to install Amarok music player in Ubuntu 16.04. Amarok is a open source best Linux music player used to play music files & audio files. Amarok music player was initially developed by Mark Kretschmann using C++ programming language and released under GNU GPLv2 license. It’s an nice light weight application comes with various features mentioned below :

• Amarok music player is a cross platform application comes for major operating systems i.e. Linux, Microsoft Windows, MacOS.
• You can categorize songs by creating different playlists or create a playlist of your favorite songs.
• Supports almost all audio file formats like MP3, WAV, OGG…etc..
• You can get more features by installing available official plugins.
• Capable to show you the artist information’s (eg : Singer, Music Director, Album Name..etc..) of the song by taking it directly from internet.
• Change Meta information like singer name, album name and many more.

Follow the below steps to install Amarok music player in Ubuntu 16.04 – A best Linux music player

Before start the installation of Amarok music player let’s update the packages & repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update   # Update Packages & Repositories
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease                                         
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

After update the packages & repositories now we are ready to install the Amarok music player package. To do so we don’t have to install any 3rd PPA repository as it’s a part of default repository of Ubuntu 16.04. So to install the same refer the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install amarok   # Install Amarok best Linux music player
Reading package lists... Done  
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  amarok-common amarok-utils breeze-icon-theme docbook-xml docbook-xsl fonts-dejavu fonts-dejavu-extra icoutils kactivities kate-data katepart kde-runtime
  kde-runtime-data kde-style-breeze kde-style-breeze-qt4 kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data kdelibs5-plugins kdemultimedia-kio-plugins kdoctools kio-audiocd kpackagelauncherqml
.
.
0 upgraded, 182 newly installed, 0 to remove and 273 not upgraded.
Need to get 109 MB of archives.
After this operation, 425 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y   ---> Enter 'y' to continue the installation

As you can see above we have successfully installed the Amarok music player package. To confirm the same refer the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l  amarok   # Confirm the installed Package
[sudo] password for elinuxbook: 
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                 Version                 Architecture            Description
+++-====================================-=======================-=======================-=============================================================================
ii  amarok                               2:2.8.0-0ubuntu9        amd64                   easy to use media player based on the KDE Platform

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Now to open the application just type the command amarok on shell prompt. Refer the command below.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ amarok   # Open the Amarok best linux music player application

Amarok music player application version :

You can also open the Amarok best Linux music player application graphically using Search your computer box. Refer the snapshot below.

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