qmmp is a Linux music player which will remind you of Winamp. In fact, it looks a lot like it and it can even use Winamp skins (as well as Xmms skins) so if you're just switching to Linux and can't give up WinAmp (although I really liked Foobar2000 on Windows but anyway), you should try qmmp as an alternative to WinAmp.



It supports mpeg1 layer 1/2/3, ogg vorbis, native flac support, musepack and wavpack, modplug, wmpa, pcm wave, acc. audio cds, CUE sheet, WavPack embedded CUE and FLAC embedded CUE support. It can use ALSA, PulseAudio, Jack or OSS sound. Of course, those are just the essential features. qmmp comes with basically all the features you would want in a music player (and even more).



One downside would be that qmmp is a QT application, but since it supports Winamp skins I don't think QT is a big drawback.





Last.fm/Libre.fm scrobbler

Spectrum Analyzer

projectM visualization

sample rate conversion

bs2b dsp effect

streaming support (MP3, Vorbis via IceCast/ShoutCast)

removable device detection (via HAL)

MPRIS support

global hotkey support

video playback via Mplayer

lyrics support (using lyricsplugin.com)





If you're scared that such a fully featured music player would use too much system resources, you'll be glad to know that in my tests, qmmp used only 11MB of RAM with a collection of ~1000 music files - all loaded in the playlist - which is very good considering that



Another great thing about qmmp is that it's very actively developed.





And many other features.If you're scared that such a fully featured music player would use too much system resources, you'll be glad to know that in my tests, qmmp used only 11MB of RAM with a collection of ~1000 music files - all loaded in the playlist - which is very good considering that Goggles Music Manager used 14 MB of RAM and Rhythmbox - 17mb (like we were telling you about in our Listen Music Player review). For the test I used Ubuntu Karmic 32 bit.Another great thing about qmmp is that it's very actively developed.

How to install qmmp in Ubuntu



qmmp is available in the Ubuntu repositories. However, it's not the latest version so to install the newest qmmp, you must use a PPA.



To add the PPA and install qmmp in Ubuntu, use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:forkotov02/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install qmmp qmmp-plugin-pack

For more information on qmmp and other Linux distributions download, visit the qmmp is available in the Ubuntu repositories. However, it's not the latest version so to install the newest qmmp, you must use a PPA.For more information on qmmp and other Linux distributions download, visit the qmmp Google Code page