Atraci: A music player that uses YouTube

I was looking for (just out of curiosity, I clarify so they don't lynch me) some application similar to Carmen invention for GNU / Linux, when in the search engine I see a link about a player called Attracted.

Attracted

What is Atraci?

The funny thing is that the result jumps to me because Attracted promises to be the complete opposite of Invenio Carmen, that is, nothing to download music in mp3 illegally, far from it.

Atraci offers us (according to its website) more than 60 million songs, and when we do a search, it uses iTunes, Last.fm y SoundCloud to return the album covers, the song title or the artists to us. Once you find the song, album, or artist, Attracted try to find the best combination on Youtube and transmit el video with the largest quality possible.

Atraci interface

The appearance of Atraci is very simple and pretty. It has just what it takes, but it is so minimalist that it lacks options to customize it. I don't use the default window decorator (in my case KWin) so at first I got a bit lost. The three circles at the top right are the Minimize / Maximize / Close buttons.

Attracted

As you can see in the capture, at the time of taking the snapshot I had not loaded any item in the playlist. But it's not the app's fault, it's my ISP. When trying to select a result in the search I got this error:

Attraction2

So obviously I'm doing something wrong. Atraci needs Node.js (because now everyone has taken to using it), Ruby, Grunt and Compass, so we can literally say that it is a player that works with web technology.

How to install Atraci on ArchLinux

I love the concept behind the application, and I find it very smart to use YouTube to provide the bank of available songs, therefore, I only have to make Atraci work. By the way, in ArchLinux you can install from AUR:

$ yaourt -S atraci-bin

And how could it be otherwise, it is cross-platform, so it can be used on Windows, Mac and GNU / Linux, in the latter with versions for 32 and 64 bits.


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  1.   City said

    I've been using it for a couple of days now and it works great, on Debian Wheezy. Greetings elav.

    1.    elav said

      See, but for Debian I'm not going back for a player 😛

    2.    thunderhero said

      how I do it, because it asks me
      $ ./Attraci
      ./Atraci: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15 ′ not found (required by ./Atraci)

  2.   cris said

    I just want a dedicated jamendo player, allowing me to discover new artists. I'm so hooked on jamendo that I dedicate this to you:

    http://www.jamendo.com/es/list/a69922/fiesta-de-la-musica-barranquilla-2009

    1.    elav said

      Clementine, Amarok and many others support Jamendo.

  3.   XTickXIvanX said

    Psss, Ghost hater and Node.JS (-_- «)
    Good alternative to Spotify 😀 (Although Spotify nobody takes it away from me: 3)
    PS: The Spam plugin is troll with my comments (-.- «) (Check the" supposed "spam comments)

    1.    elav said

      Hahaha, no, no, I don't hate NodeJS, or Ghost XDD

  4.   dwarf said

    Calla bald, you hate everything that is not wordpress, do not deny it

    1.    elav said

      I just hate Joomla and Drupal.

  5.   conical said

    I sincerely believe that a player that needs Node.js, Ruby, etc. for its use is not a good idea, I am more of a search for the music that interests me and download it and reproduce it with something simple such as mocp. I sincerely believe that what this type of player does can be done directly from the browser.
    Yes, I know I'm going against the current.

  6.   AdrianArroyoStreet said

    Node.js is impossible to hate, it's just great

  7.   Tina Toledo said

    I already have it installed and running on Windows 8.1, I already have it installed and running on MacOSX. That was a piece of cake ... but I still can't install it properly on Linux Mint Qiana. Why on earth is it always easier to do it on Windows and MacOS and so complicated on GNU / Linux? Why…? Why?!

  8.   pandev92 said

    Well, in Windows it does not reproduce anything: S

  9.   Tina Toledo said

    It works perfectly fine for me in Windows 8.1
    http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee1/daytrippergirl/Captura-2.jpg

    But I have not been able to install it on Linux Mint Qiana… 🙁

    1.    neysonv said

      lack of habit I guess. there was no need to install anything ... I just download, unzip and run. run it by terminal to see what error you get and we will help you.
      regards

  10.   mmm said

    Hey.
    Try ... this:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa: webupd8team / atraci
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install attract

    regards

  11.   mmm said

    And I don't remember which one is Qiana but I also found this:

    I'm not able to install it on Mint; "Unable to locate package atraci"

    Most probably because you're running a Mint version which reached end of life. Only Mint 17 and Mint 13 are still supported.

  12.   eliotime3000 said

    @Tina, as @mmm describes it, that's due to a bad dependency binding from the program itself.

    In case you don't like the version of the PPA's, you can follow the instructions to finish compiling the stable version of GitHub (It's hard I know).

  13.   City said

    @Tina @mmm can download the version that corresponds to them (32-bit, 64-bit), unzip the package, go to the unzip directory and run Atraci. Or in a console go to the decompression directory and execute ./Atraci if any dependency is missing it will indicate which one.

  14.   Jonah Trinity said

    Atraci is a program that promises, but if you have limited data like me, it is a serious problem, it also has other issues such as the lack of general playlists, something that spotify does exist, share music, discover new, see what your friends are listening to, etc. .

    For now I am staying with Spotify and soon I will go to premium it is only 6 dollars, in this way to contribute so that other apps reach LINUX and not run.

  15.   tests said

    I get this error in manjaro

    atraci: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    1.    Azureus said

      How strange, I also get the same. I thought I would be the only one. I'm going to google a bit and I'll tell you later.

    2.    Azureus said

      Hello tester, according to what I read, it is because there are a few libraries without installing, try installing libudev1 and nodejs, in archlinux it is as follows:
      sudo pacman -S nodejs; yaourt -S libudev1 --noconfirm

      It is in a single line and most likely you already have nodejs installed, but that is just in case.

    3.    Azureus said

      Sorry, I was wrong, this is correct:
      sudo pacman -S nodejs; yaourt -S libudev.so.0 –noconfirm