Plex Media Server 0.9.12.1 released, Install on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, Mac OSX and CentOS

Plex Media Server 0.9.12.1 released, Install on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Fedora 22, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, CentOS 6 and CentOS 6

Plex Media Server is a powerful application that will help you to manage and stream media files stored on your computer to various mobile devices and smart TVs, across a local network or over the Internet.

The application can be downloaded for Chromcast, Roku, Google TV, and a supported Samsung Smart TV, as well as on Synology, Netgear, QNAP, unRAID, Drobo and ASUSTOR NAS (Network-attached storage) devices.

Features at a glance

With Plex Media Server, you can organize your movie, photo, music and TV show collections in order to access them easily and fast from one of the aforementioned devices and platforms.

It can serve content to clients on the same machine or within the local network, and even over the Internet. One of its best features is that it includes its own App Store, from where plug-ins can be installed and extend the default functionality of the software.

In addition to the free version reviewed here, there's also a PlexPass edition of Plex Media Server, which provides users with a paid service that gives them early access to new versions and premium features.

What's new in Plex Media Server 0.9.12.1:

• New:
• Enable iTunes importing code for UNIX; set advanced preference with path to library XML.
• Support for decade-based filtering for movies and albums.
• Add a hidden preference for sorting albums (AlbumSort, with default value "year:desc", you can set "year", "title", etc.).
• Add a new library preference to tell scanner to respect media tags (for new libraries).
• CentOS 7 support.
• Fixes:
• A crash shortly after startup.
• (Linux) Crash on start.
• (Windows) Scanner might not pick up new media, or might stop in the middle.
• A few other crashes and minor stability issues.
• Fix install/uninstall issues on Ubuntu/Mint.
• Fixed possible issue locking out an alternate admin user on Synology

Install Plex Media Server 0.9.12.1 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, Mac OSX and CentOS

UBUNTU

Download For Ubuntu 32 bit

Download For Ubuntu 32 bit

to install Plex Media Server 0.9.12.1 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

$ sudo dpkg -i plexmediaserver_*.deb

In case “dpkg” indicates missing dependencies, complete the installation by executing the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install -f

FEDORA


Download for Fedora 32 bit
Download for Fedora 64 bit

to install Plex Media Server 0.9.12.1 on Fedora 22, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands: 

$ sudo yum install plexmediaserver-*.rpm

CENTOS

Download for CentOS 32 bit
Download for CentOS 64 bit

to install Plex Media Server 0.9.12.1 on CentOS 6 AND 7, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands: 

$ sudo yum install plexmediaserver-*.rpm

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

Kodi 15.0 Beta 1 Released, Install on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) or Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA

Kodi 15.0 Beta 1 Released, How to Install on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) or Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA

Kodi (formerly XBMC Media Center) is an open source and very powerful project that provides all the necessary tools for transforming your regular PC into a bona fide HTPC, which if used in conjunction a big screen TV and a Hi-Fi audio system, will transform your living room into a veritable home theater.

Here it is, the first beta build for Kodi 15.0; freshly baked and ready to be served! We could call Kodi 15.0 a “clean-up” edition due to the lack of any prominent features and due to the massive spring cleaning we have been doing during the past months. Although some nice new features have been added, the majority of work was done cleaning up the vast complexity of code that was built up over the years. Though we still have a long way to go.

Some of you might feel that we are releasing the new beta quite soon after the 14.2 stable release, however this is part of our plan. We intend to release more often with smaller features. This way the changes are more manageable and we can quicker squash any bugs that get left behind into next release.

Improvements so far

There were about 780 requests that contained multiple fixes, features, and improvements that went into the current 15.0 beta release. All these changes should sum up in an even better user experience while using Kodi. We could start summing up all the changes but there’s really no point in doing so. Instead will make a quick selection of the most important changes done.

• * Reworked add-on manger that should give a better overview
• * Chapter selection window that shows thumbs on where to skip to in the video
• * Easier to navigate audio and subtitle selection list
• * Addition of language add-ons which allow us to update the User-Interface text outside of regular releases
• * Expansion of international options like time and date format, temperature and speed units.
• * Skip steps (step forward & backwards) improvements.
• * Tuxbox removal. Users of Enigma2 boxes can use the VUPlus PVR add-on
• * Split PVR add-ons into separate projects which should allow updates through repo in the future
• * Fix season art scraping on newly added seasons
• * Immediately fetch updates from repository after Kodi version upgrade
• * Improvement of installing new skins selection
• * Remove legacy code pre-Frodo 11.0
• * Add jump to first unwatched in TV section
• * Remove certain codecs from our core code and made add-ons out of them. Audio encoders/decoders
• * Removal of AFP filesystem support
• * Windows DXVA HEVC hardware decoding support if driver and hardware support exist
• * Added adaptive seeking through audio and video playback, also know as “skip steps”
• * Android HEVC H.265 support for some chipsets
• * Improve webserver caching control
• * External subtitles over UPnP can be enabled through the settings section
• * Allow scanning of new sources and marking as watched during other library operations such as “update library”
• * Allow different sort orders for different sort methods
• * Start of integration binary add-ons and changing the build system around it
• * Improved CC (Closed Captions) support for Live TV
• * ffmpeg 2.6.2 update
• * Removal remaining SDL code which was used in some areas.
• * Changed code to  C++11
• * Variety of memleaks, segfaults, crashes and minor issues fixed
• * Rescrape season art for newly added seasons
• * Upgrade included webserver which should fix issues with remotes loosing connections
• * On Android the system now handles the volume
• * General improvements regarding code stability and performance in all areas
• * General code clean-up in all areas to simplify adding future features

• * Mac OSX
  • - Minimal 10.7 Lion required
  • - Only OSX 64-bit builds provided by us, so no more 32bit builds
  • - Minimal MacOSX 10.10 SDK
• * iOS
  • - Minimal iOS 5.1 required
  • - Minimal iOS 8.1 SDK
  • - No more ATV2 builds
• * Android
  • - Minimum Android 4.2 Jelly Bean MR1 required
  • - Android API 17 as minimum with SDK 14 and NDK 10e
  • - Removed the need for root/SU on Android. Some hardware/firmware might not like that. Please contact your hardware supplier
  • - Android PIL packaging fixed

and much more…

Install Kodi 15.0 Beta 1 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) or Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA

To Install/Update Kodi 15.0 Beta 1 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Use the command line terminal and enter the following commands. Follow the prompts as you would any other software installation.

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kodi

For Install Kodi Addons you can follow this page.

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

Lollypop 0.9.15 Released, Install on Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

Lollypop 0.9.15 Released, How to Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA

Lollypop is a completely free and open source and freely distributed graphical application implemented in Python/GTK+ for the GNOME desktop environment, designed from the offset to act as a simple and intuitive music player software.

Features at a glance
Key features include support for reading MP3, MP4, FLAC and OGG Vorbis audio files, support for browsing album covers, artists and music genre, built-in search, party mode, album art downloader, ReplayGain support, context artist view, as well as support for queuing songs.

Its graphical user interface is modern, easy to use, intuitive and follows the GNOME HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) specifications, which means that it integrates perfectly into the GNOME 3 desktop environment.

What's new in Lollypop 0.9.15:

• Fix an input issue

Install Lollypop 0.9.15 on Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

To Install/Update Lollypop 0.9.15 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnumdk/lollypop
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lollypop

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Install DeaDBeeF 0.6.2 Ultimate Music Player on Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

Install DeaDBeeF 0.6.2 Ultimate Music Player on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA

DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is an audio player for GNU/Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris and other UNIX-like systems. There's also the Android version, which is a very different product. There are no Windows, OSX or iOS versions though, sorry for that.
Main features (the list is most likely far from complete):

• mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, ape, wv/iso.wv, wav, m4a/mp3 (aac and alac), mpc, tta, cd audio, and many more
• nsf, ay, vtx, vgm/vgz, spc and many other popular chiptune formats
• SID with HVSC song length database support for sid
• tracker modules - mod, s3m, it, xm, etc
• ID3v1, ID3v2.2, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, APEv2, Xing/Info, VorbisComments tag reading and writing, as well as reading many other tag/metadata formats in most supported formats
• automatic character set detection for non-unicode id3 tags - supports cp1251, iso8859-1, and now chinese cp936 (optional), as well as SHIFT-JIS and MS-DOS CP866 for selected formats
• unicode tags are fully supported as well (both utf8 and ucs2)
• cuesheet (.cue files) support, including charset detection/conversion
• clean fast GUI using GTK2 and GTK3, you pick what you like more!
• no GNOME or KDE dependencies
• minimization to system tray, with scrollwheel volume control, etc
• drag and drop, both in playlist, and from other apps
• control playback from command line
• global hotkeys
• multiple playlists using tabbed interface
• album cover display
• OSD notifications about current playing songs
• 18-band graphical equalizer and other DSP plugins
• built-in high quality tag editor, with custom fields support
• customizable groups in playlists
• customizable columns with flexible title formatting
• streaming radio support for ogg vorbis, mp3 and aac streams
• gapless playback for correctly encoded files
• lots of plugin, such as global hotkeys, last.fm scrobbler, converter, and many more, sdk is included
• comes with advanced Converter plugin, which allows to transcode files to other formats
• was tested on x86, x86_64, powerpc, arm, mips architectures, should work on most modern platforms
• new features are being added all the time -- check for updates frequently!

The player is developed by Alexey Yakovenko, with contributions from many different people (see about box in the player for more details).
For copyright freaks, the license is GNU General Public License version 2.
However, a huge portion of the code has ZLIB license, so you can grab the code which you like, and use it in your own projects without a hassle! check the source files for file-specific copyright statements.

DeaDBeeF 0.6.2 changelog

• added “Stop playback after current album finished” (Aleksejs Popovs)
• added ALAC, OPUS, OggFlac encoder presets (Ian Nartowicz)
• added configure option to build artwork plugin without network support
• added new widget for muting chiptune voices
• added support for SHIFT-JIS charset detection/recoding (off by default)
• fixed “stop after current” bug, which required player restart on every change
• fixed –gui command line option
• fixed GUI seeking accuracy bug
• fixed bug in extended frame flags conversion between ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tag formats
• fixed crash when loading playlist from command line
• fixed loading album art (APIC frame) from ID3v2.4 with data length indicator
• fixed non-utf8 locale support in console
• fixed support for vorbis files with more than 6 channels
• fixed playlist count limit bug
• fixed preserving file permissions after editing ogg files
• fixed several bugs in PLS playlist format support
• improved FreeBSD and OSX support
• improved charset detection in CUE and ID3v1
• improved album art column rendering/resizing (Christian Boxdörfer)
• improved the build system and the output build quality
• improved detection of config changes, to avoid unnecessary config writing
• improved support for reading APEv2 and ID3v1 tags from large files (>2Gb)
• updated licensing information in all plugins, to include information about all used libraries
• aac: added workaround for 7 channel sound playback bug
• gme: added support for loading gzipped modules from supported archives (e.g. from zips)
• gtkui, pltbrowser: better accessibility
• gtkui: added option to disable seekbar overlay
• gtkui: added option to display playback state as unicode characters, instead of bitmaps (works better on HDPI screens)
• gtkui: added support for design mode to more widgets (seekbak, volumebar, playback toolbar)
• gtkui: fixed bug in gtk_drag_check_threshold handler
• gtkui: numerous fixes in widget layout code
• gtkui: single/double clicking on album art column will select/play the album/group (Christian Boxdörfer)
• lastfm: added support for scrobbling radio streams (off by default)
• lastfm: added support for scrobbling tracks shorter than 30 sec (off by default)
• lastfm: improved support for musicbrainz track id
• see full list

Install DeaDBeeF 0.6.2 Ultimate Music Player on Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

to Install DeaDBeeF 0.6.2 Ultimate Music Player on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:
 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:starws-box/deadbeef-player
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install deadbeef

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations. 

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

VLC 2.2.1 is Released, Install/Update on Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

VLC 2.2.1 Media Player is Released, Install/Update on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA

VLC Media Player (formerly VideoLAN Client) is an open source and highly portable multimedia player application that integrates support for many audio and video formats, as well as DVDs, VCDs, and several streaming protocols. In addition to those, VLC reads Audio-CDs, DVB-S/C/T streams, MPEG encoding cards, and video acquisition from a supported V4L (Video4Linux) device.

VLC 2.2.1 "Terry Pratchett" is a fixed version of 2.2.0 "WeatherWax"
It fixes numerous crashes (FLAC, SPC), codec issues (VP9, Atrac3, AAC), regressions and several issues (Resume, MP4 chapters, MKV over network) and security issues.

What's new in VLC 2.2.1:

Codec:

• Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
• Fix some VP9 decoding
• Fix flac crashes
• Fix lpcm channel ordering
• Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
• Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
• Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder
• Fix AAC samplerate

Demuxers:

• Fix MP4 chapters
• Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
• Fix crash when playing SPC files
• Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
• Revert to older ASX code
• Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio

Access:

• Fix sftp read and close sockets
• Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
• Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows

Audio output:

• Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
• Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
• Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files

OS X:

• Fix numerous crashes in the UI
• Fix video-wallpaper mode
• Fix race when starting VLC from command line

Qt:

• Fix recent items behaviour
• Fix rotation filter activation
• Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard

Win32:

• Timestamp the signature of the dlls
• Fix extensions registration during install
• Fix extensions dialog crash
• Default to no DxVA decoding
• libVLC:
• fix libvlc_media_get_stats

Translations:

• Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations

A video streaming app

The application can be used as a server to stream video in UDP/RTP Unicast or Multicast on IPv4 and IPv6 high-bandwidth networks. It also supports the HTTP, FTP and MMS protocols. Users will be able to use different video filters on movies, including deinterlace, crop, image wall, brightness, saturation, contrast, rotate, upside down, and logo overlay.

Supports a wide range of multimedia file formats

Among the input formats supported by VLC Media Player, we can mention MPEG ES/PS/TS/PVA/MP3, AVI, ASF/WMV/WMA, OGG/OGM/Annodex, MP4/MOV/3GPP, Matroska (MKV), WAV, DTS WAV, Raw DV, Raw AAC, Raw AC3/a52 audio, Raw DTS audio, and FLAC audio. The MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DivX 1/2/3, MPEG-4/DivX 5/XviD/3ivX D4, Sorenson (SVQ 1/3), DV, Cinepak, Theora, H263/H263i, MJPEG A/B and WMV 1/2 video codecs are supported by default.

Install/Update VLC 2.2.0 Media Player on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA : 

Because it is available via PPA, installing VLC 2.2.0 on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the vlc package. Like this:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install vlc

Optional, to remove vlc, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove vlc

VLC Media Player is available in a Beta form on the Google Play Store for the Android platform, and in the last few years it became one of the most used media player applications for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. - See more at: http://media-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/02/vlc-220-media-player-released-install.html#sthash.h47tNKVV.dpuf

Install/Update VLC 2.2.1 Media Player on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA :

Because it is available via PPA, installing VLC 2.2.1 on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the vlc package. Like this:

    $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily
    $ sudo apt-get update
    $ sudo apt-get install vlc

Optional, to remove vlc, do:

    $ sudo apt-get remove vlc

VLC Media Player is available in a Beta form on the Google Play Store for the Android platform, and in the last few years it became one of the most used media player applications for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.

Audacious 3.6.1 released, Install on Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

Audacious 3.6.1 released Now, Install on Debian 8 "jessie", Debian 7 "wheezy" , Fedora 22, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, Arch Linux, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) or Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA

Audacious is an open source audio player. A descendant of XMMS, Audacious plays your music how you want it, without stealing away your computer’s resources from other tasks. Drag and drop folders and individual song files, search for artists and albums in your entire music library, or create and edit your own custom playlists. Listen to CD’s or stream music from the Internet. Tweak the sound with the graphical equalizer or experiment with LADSPA effects. Enjoy the modern GTK-themed interface or change things up with Winamp Classic skins. Use the plugins included with Audacious to fetch lyrics for your music, to set an alarm in the morning, and more.
Audacious runs on Linux, on BSD derivatives, and on Microsoft Windows. To download and install the latest version (currently 3.6.1), please see the download page.

What's new in Audacious 3.6.1:

• Bugs fixed include #511, #512, #518, #520, and #522.

Features at a glance

Key features include support for a wide range of audio file formats, support for dragging and dropping of individual song files and entire music folders, ability to search for albums or artists in your entire music collection, edit or create playlists, as well as to listen to Audio-CDs or Internet streams.

In addition, it features a graphical equalizer that lets users to tweak the sound, supports LADSPA effects, a complex plugin architecture (a collection of plugins is available for download separately), and support for Winamp Classic skins.

The plugins that are distributed along with the Audacious audio player will extend its default functionality, allowing users to fetch lyrics for songs, set alarms, add support for even more audio file formats, add tray icon support, Last.fm scrobbler, and much more.

Among other useful features, we can mention a queue manager, shuffle mode, repeat mode, "stop after this song" and "no playlist advance" functionality, detailed song information, removal of duplicate files, and renaming of files.

Audacious 3.6.1 released, Install on Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint
Users of Debian and its derivatives can install Audacious with apt-get:

# apt-get install audacious

Note that the versions of Audacious available in Debian stable and Ubuntu LTS releases tend to be rather out of date. Web Upd8 maintains a PPA with newer versions for Ubuntu users.

open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install audacious audacious-plugins

Optional, to remove audacious and audacious-plugins, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands: :

sudo apt-get remove audacious audacious-plugins

Fedora
Fedora users can install Audacious using yum:

# yum install audacious

However, the “audacious-plugins” package distributed by Fedora is lacking important plugins; most notably, the MP3 decoder plugin. The missing plugins can be installed by enabling the RPM Fusion repositories and running:

# yum install audacious-plugins-freeworld

Arch Linux
Audacious can be installed in Arch Linux using pacman:

# pacman -S audacious

Some plugins may fail to load unless all optional dependencies of the “audacious-plugins” package are satisfied. The ArchWiki has additional information about running Audacious on Arch Linux.

Gentoo
Gentoo includes Audacious in its portage tree, as media-sound/audacious. You can install the Gentoo ebuilds using emerge:

# emerge media-sound/audacious

To get the latest version, you may need to use the testing branch. See the Gentoo documentation for more details.

Gentoo package page for audacious
Gentoo package page for audacious-plugins 

Source Code

For GTK+ 2 or Qt 5:

• audacious-3.6.1.tar.bz2 (530 KB)
• audacious-plugins-3.6.1.tar.bz2 (1.7 MB)

For GTK+ 3:

• audacious-3.6.1-gtk3.tar.bz2 (530 KB)
• audacious-plugins-3.6.1-gtk3.tar.bz2 (1.7 MB)

Older releases are available here.


Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

Kodi 15.0 Isengard Alpha 2 Released, Available for Mac OSX, Windows, Ubuntu and Linux Mint on PPA

Kodi 15.0 Isengard Alpha 2 Released, Available for Mac OSX, Windows 7, Windows 8, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana on PPA

Kodi (formerly XBMC Media Center) is an open source and very powerful project that provides all the necessary tools for transforming your regular PC into a bona fide HTPC, which if used in conjunction a big screen TV and a Hi-Fi audio system, will transform your living room into a veritable home theater.

Features at a glance

Key features include powerful media management capabilities, a fluid Interface, plug-ins that allow for great extensibility, cinematic effects and visualizations, built-in multimedia codecs, themes, and much more. The application can play your entire collection of music files, supporting all the popular formats like MP3, FLAC, WAV, WMA or OGG. It also provides support for cue sheets, audio tagging and smart playlists.

Read This Page for PPA Ubuntu Archive

Your entire video collection can also be played by Kodi, supporting all the major video formats like AVI, MP4, DivX, XviD, DVD Video, MKV, and many more. In addition, it includes support for Internet streams. The program provides support for organizing and viewing your favorite TV shows, which will be sorted by episodes and seasons. Moreover, Kodi can be used to display an entire collection of digital photos.

Other Improvements

There were 241 fixes, features, and improvements for Alpha2. Beyond the highlighted ones, here is a list of a few other improvements made.

• * Tuxbox removal. Users of Enigma2 boxes can use the VUPlus PVR add-on
• * Split PVR add-ons into separate projects
• * Fix season art scraping on newly added seasons
• * Immediately fetch updates from repository after major upgrade
• * Improvement of installing new skins selection
• * Remove legacy code pre-Frodo 11.0
• * Add jump to first unwatched in TV section
• * Remove certain codecs from our core code and made add-ons out of them. Audio encoders/decoders
• * Removal of AFP filesystem support
• * Windows DXVA HEVC hardware decoding support if driver and hardware support exist

to install Kodi 15.0 Isengard Alpha 2 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kodi

To update XBMC/Kodi when a new version is released, just do a general system/package or use the following commands in the terminal (or via SSH):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

If you need to remove and purge an application and finally removing/purging also the application configurations files, do so by using the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove kodi*
sudo apt-get purge kodi*

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