How to Install Museeks 0.7 (Music Player) on Ubuntu / Linux Mint (PPA)
Museeks is a lightweight and cross-platform music player for Ubuntu Linux Systems. Museeks music player uses Node.js for back-end, electron (used to be atom-shell) for embedded browser and React.js as front-end framework.
Mussek 0.7 is the latest version of the music player. It has been released with the following changes:
Cover art support is the headline act in this latest update. When playing a track with album art embedded in the ID3 metadata it’ll show up. If this is missing Museeks will look for an image file in the track folder and display that. If that’s missing then you’ll see a fallback “no cover” image.
Rearrange tracks in the play queue
The option to run Museeks with native OS window frame is also present. Aside from making the app look a little nicer on your desktop it also solves a pet peeve of mine in the previous release: lack of minimise button.
Some fine tuning of the library detection backend also plays a part, and you’ll now be prompted, on first run, the add a music folder.
The app won’t automatically scan any newly added folders for music. You need to tap the ‘refresh’ button to make it comb through and detect your music tracks.
Lastly, but by no means least, you can quickly filter by album or artists by right-clicking on a track and selecting the appropriate option from the context menu.
How to Install Museeks 0.7 (Music Player) on Ubuntu / Linux Mint (PPA)
Museeks Music Player can be easily installed on Linux Ubuntu Systems – Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 14.10 and Linux Mint Systems. Open Terminal and run the following commands to install Museek music player on Linux Ubuntu:For Ubuntu 32bit
cd ~/Downloads
wget https://github.com/KeitIG/museeks/releases/download/0.7.0/museeks-linux-ia32.zip
sudo unzip ~/Downloads/museeks-linux-*.zip -d /opt
sudo mv /opt/museeks-linux* /opt/museeks
For Ubuntu 64bit
cd ~/Downloads
wget https://github.com/KeitIG/museeks/releases/download/0.7.0/museeks-linux-x64.zip
sudo unzip ~/Downloads/museeks-linux-*.zip -d /opt
sudo mv /opt/museeks-linux* /opt/museeks
Once installed, it’s time to create the desktop file “museeks.desktop.” To do so, run the following command:
gedit ~/.local/share/applications/museeks.desktop
Now copy and paste the following code into the created museeks.desktop file and save.
[Desktop Entry] Name=Museeks
Exec=/opt/museeks/museeks
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=/opt/museeks/resources/app/src/images/logos/museeks.png
Categories=AudioVideo;Player;Audio;
Once everything is done, open the Museeks music player from Ubuntu Dash or Terminal.
