Install Yarock Music Player 1.0.1 in Ubuntu/Linux Mint

Yarock Music Player

Yarock is Linux native music player written in C++ using Qt and Phonon multimedia framework. It’s designed to provide an easy and pretty music collection browser based on cover art.

Yarock player features:

  • Music collection database (SQLite 3)
  • Browse your local music collection based on cover art
  • Easy search and filter music collection
  • Manage favorites item (album, artist)
  • Play music directly from collection or playqueue
  • Simple Playqueue
  • Smart playlist generator
  • Support mp3,Ogg Vorbis,flac music files (depending on phonon backend)
  • Support load/save playlist file (m3u, pls, xspf)
  • Play radio stream (tunin, shoutcast, dirble, …)
  • Mp3Gain tag support for volume normalization
  • Cover art download
  • Last Fm scrobbler
  • Command line interface, Mpris interface
  • Clean and simple user interface
  • No GNOME or KDE dependancies

Screenshots:

yarock_artists yarockAlbums

Yarock player is under active development. The most recent release is version 1.0.1 which features:

  • BugFix : database issue
  • BugFix : fix song lenght update (#1393027)
  • BugFix : Jumbled Text in Settings Area (#1394508)
  • BugFix : minor ui presentation for filesystem view
  • BugFix : image for stream management
  • Change : add ascending order for filesystem view
  • Change : file dialog open user music folder by default if exists
  • Change : file dialog in settings -> open saved directory
  • Change : easiest first time user startup
  • Change : add saving position in browser view
  • Change : update and add translation

Install Yarock in Ubuntu / Linux Mint:

Sam Rog is maintaining a PPA that contains the most recent Yarock packages for Ubuntu 14.04 trusty, Ubuntu 14.10 utopic, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid and Linux Mint 17.

Since the repository contains lots of other software and libraries that might cause your system unstable, I’d recommend to download the installer directly from PPA ftp download page.

1. You may first check out your OS type, 32-bit(i386) or 64-bit(amd64), from System Settings > Details.

2. Select download the .deb package from this link.

select download ‘yarock_x.x.x~codename~x_OStype.deb’ that matches your OS. For example, 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04 & Linux Mint 17 use yarock_1.0.1~trusty~ppa1_amd64.deb

3. Once downloaded, open the package via Software Center or Gdebi and click install.

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