More posts about “mediaplayers”

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Tomahawk update lets you play tracks from friends libraries, more

The latest update to cross-platform media player 'Tomahawk' slipped out for Ubuntu without much in the way of fanfare. But from the improvements and new features that came with it fanfare was wholly deserved...

9 June 2011

UMPlayer Media Player – One Of Open-Source’s Best kept Secrets

UMPlayer is one of open-sources best kept secrets. In this post we take a look at the media player, plus provide easy instructions on how to install it.

1 June 2011
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Tomahawk media player adds PPA but not much else

I billed Tomahawk as a media player with potential after my first play with it last month, so when I heard that Tomahawk recently added a PPA for Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 users to install from I decided to check it out and see whether anything had changed.

19 April 2011
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Tomahawk media player offers multi-source library and genius playlists

Tomahawk is a new QT media player with a difference: it wants to playback anything you ask for - even if you don't have it on your hard-drive.

28 March 2011
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MPlayer adds daily build PPA for Ubuntu users

A new testing PPA for MPlayer is now available for Ubuntu users wishing to test the latest features and fixes present in the robust media player for Linux.

27 January 2011
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‘MusicMe’ media player forced to change name, goes Tolkien

Transparent Qt music player 'MusicMe' has been forced to change its name. The change, the result of a trademark dispute with a European company, led to the the developers turning their ears towards the linguistic worlds of Tolkien for some inspiration.

8 January 2011
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MusicMe: a transparent music player for Linux

Yes! Another music player! At least this one looks different, right?

5 January 2011
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Music player Pogo hits 0.3, adds in app search, new menu entries

A new version of minimalist music player Pogo has been released.

1 December 2010
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Linux Movie players: VLC Vs Totem Vs Parole

VLC may the king of features, but is it the king of performance?

9 September 2010

Xnoise is a lightweight desktop media app for Linux

Another week and another media player. Say hello to Xnoise – a self-described ‘lightweight’ music and video player that has been making a lot of noise of late. Written in vala – and therefore more […]

29 July 2010
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Moovida core media player is banshee with ads

Moovida, the popular cross-platform GStreamer-using media centre, are lunching a new desktop media player application — called Moovida Core -  as part of its’ ‘Moovida 2.0‘ strategy. The player, which uses Banshee as its backend, […]

6 June 2010
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DeaDBeeF Plays for the default spot in Lubuntu 10.10

Over on the Lubuntu mailing-list they’ve been discussing the application choices for version 10.10 due in October. Although no actual changes has been decided on, discussions centring around dropping the current default ‘music player’ Aqualung in favour […]

16 May 2010