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 :

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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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