Content
- Clementine (Audio player)
- Banshee (audio player)
- VLC (multi-media)
- xbmc – Xbox Media Centre
- Netflx
- Spotify
- Brasero (CD/Disk Burner)
Your elementary OS installation has out of the box applications to manage and play your music videos or movie collections. These applications comply with the elementary OS philosophy being minimal by design, fast and clean. They do what you expect with no fancy extras. Try them out and if the do not meet your needs here are some popular alternatives you can consider along with some of the more advanced options for playing your media. Some of the tutorials here require you adding of a PPA. Before adding any PPA to your elementary installation elementarynow recommend you first read Using and Understanding Software Repositories and PPAs
alternative music players
I am a music lover and an average computer user and I cannot find much difference between the popular music players clementine and banshee. They share many of the same features so the choice you make will be subjective. Both…
- search and play your local music library.
- lyrics and artist biographies and photos.
- edit tags on mp3 and ogg files, organise your music.
- download missing album cover art
- create smart playlists and dynamic playlists.
install clementine
open the Terminal [CTRL]-[ALT]-[T] and paste the following then hit enter
sudo apt-get install clementine
install banshee
open the Terminal [CTRL]-[ALT]-[T] and paste the following then hit enter
sudo apt-get install banshee
alternative movie/video player
VLC media player is a very popular multimedia player capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as dvds, audio cds vcds, and various streaming protocols.
open the Terminal [CTRL]-[ALT]-[T] and paste the follow lines (one at a time) then hit enter
sudo apt-get install vlc
xbmc – xbox media center
XBMC is the ultimate media center software, because it gives you a single interface for accessing all of your media and it does so using a remote-friendly interface, You can browse your digital collection of music and videos, explore some of the most popular media sites on the web or check out live Internet TV from around the world. Set up properly, XBMC can do just about anything you’d want your TV to be able to do online.
to install xbmc open the Terminal [CTRL]-[ALT]-[T] and paste the follow lines (one at a time) then hit enter
sudo apt-get install xbmc
netflix
Netflix is the world’s largest online movie rental service, with more than 10 million subscribers. Netflix provides subscribers with DVDs delivered to their homes and movies and TV episodes streamed to TVs and computers.
to install open the Terminal [CTRL]-[ALT]-[T] and paste the follow lines (one at a time) then hit enter
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ehoover/compholio
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install netflix-desktop
spotify
Spotify is a commercial music streaming service providing Digital Rights Management-protected content from record labels including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group and Universal. Launched in October 2008 in Sweden it now has millions of users.
to install spotify open the Terminal [CTRL]-[ALT]-[T] and paste the follow lines (one at a time) then hit enter
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 94558F59
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install spotify-client-qt
cd/dvd burner
brasero is a application to burn cd/dvds for the elementary desktop. It is designed to be as simple as possible and has some unique features to enable users to create their discs easily and quickly.
open the Terminal [CTRL]-[ALT]-[T] and paste the following then hit enter
sudo apt-get install brasero
Good selection. I’m especially fond of vlc and spotify. Theres a nice spotify indicator mod for eOS at https://github.com/ozcanesen/spotify-indicator
or you can just use these commands:
cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/ozcanesen/spotify-indicator/blob/master/spotify16x16.png?raw=true
wget https://github.com/ozcanesen/spotify-indicator/blob/master/spotify?raw=true
wget https://github.com/ozcanesen/spotify-indicator/blob/master/spotify-indicator.py?raw=true
sudo cp spotify?raw=true /etc/apparmor.d/spotify
sudo service apparmor reload
sudo cp spotify16x16.png?raw=true /opt/spotify/spotify-client/spotify16x16.png
sudo rm /usr/bin/spotify
sudo cp spotify-indicator.py?raw=true /usr/bin/spotify
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/spotify
Another great media app is Plex. Its a fork of XBMC. In some ways XBMC is better, but if you want to have your media on one computer and be able to play it from other computers, phones, tablets, rokus, or half a dozen other products then it doesn’t get much easier than plex. The Plex media server is in the software center, but the client/player needs a ppa.
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:pulse-eight/libcec
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kalakris/cmake
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install plexhometheater
Another category of media apps that seems missing is apps for getting your media into something like XBMC or PLEX. My favorites are Handbrake for converting videos and MakeMKV for ripping DVDs of Blu-Rays.
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install handbrake
For MakeMKV download http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18055299/buildMakeMkv.sh
then run
chmod a+x buildMakeMkv.sh
./buildMakeMkv.sh
More info on the install script can be found at http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5266
Very Informative, Mucho wow! These will shine in the advance user tips n trick section (well we dont have one..yet!)