Museeks, a multiplatform music player built on electron

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Without a doubt one of the categories that has a large area of ​​development is entertainment and of which music is one of the most demanding, Well, for Linux there are different types of music players, from the simplest to the most sophisticated that have support for different streaming services.

Today we are going to talk about a music player called "Museeks" which is cross-platform and free for Linux, Windows and Mac OS.

This music player it is built in Node.js, electron, React.js and Flux with Redux. As such Museeks is a very simple and clean looking music player.

It supports playlists, queue management, it also has playlist shuffle mode, loop playback, and playback speed control.

Among its main characteristics the following stand out:

  • It has support for playlists
  • Queue management
  • Random and loop mode
  • Playback speed control
  • Sleep mode blocker
  • Tray applet- Control music playback via the Museeks tray applet controls.
  • Native desktop notifications: Get now by playing song titles on your desktop without them interfering with your workflow.
  • Theme support: If the light theme is too bright for your taste, you can switch to the dark theme.
  • Quick search- Search for any of your clues within the app and get a quick answer.
  • Drag and Drop- The new Museeks library management allows you to drag and drop old files and files directly onto the library settings page.
  • Import and export in m3u format
  • It has support for the formats: mp3, mp4, m4a / aac, wav, ogg and 3gpp

How to install Museeks on Linux?

Si you want to install this music player on your system, you can do it in the following way, following the instructions that we share below.

The first What we should do is go to the official website of the application and until the end of it we can find the download links. The link is this.

We can download the .deb, .rpm or. AppImage of the application.

In the case of those who are users of Debian, Ubuntu or any other distribution derived from these, we can install this music player with the .deb package.

In the case of those who want to download the deb package, we must open a terminal and execute the following command in it for 64-bit systems:
wget https://github.com/martpie/museeks/releases/download/0.11.3/museeks-amd64.deb

While, for 32-bit systems, we must execute:
wget https://github.com/martpie/museeks/releases/download/0.11.3/museeks-i386.deb

E we install with the following command:
sudo dpkg -i museeks*.deb

In case of having problems with the dependencies, we just have to execute:
sudo apt -f install

Now for those who prefer the AppImage file for 64-bit systems, we only have to execute on the terminal:
wget https://github.com/martpie/museeks/releases/download/0.11.3/museeks-x86_64.AppImage -O museeks.AppImage

For 32-bit systems, just run:
wget https://github.com/martpie/museeks/releases/download/0.11.3/museeks-i386.AppImage -O museeks.AppImage

For install the AppImage file, first we must give execution permissions with:
sudo chmod a+x museeks.AppImage

And we execute with:
./museeks.AppImage

Now for those with Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, OpenSUSE or any other distribution with support for RPM packages. We can obtain the 64-bit rpm package with the following command:
wget https://github.com/martpie/museeks/releases/download/0.11.3/museeks-x86_64.rpm

Or for the case of the 32-bit packet:
wget https://github.com/martpie/museeks/releases/download/0.11.3/museeks-i686.rpm

And finally we can perform the installation with the command:
sudo dnf install museeks*.rpm

Or in the case of OpenSUSE:
sudo zypper install museeks*.rpm

Finally, for those who are Arch Linux users or any other distribution derived from it. The installation can be done from the AUR repository, they only need to have the repository added to their pacman.conf file and an AUR wizard installed on their system.

The installation is carried out by typing the following command:

yay -S museeks-bin

And that's it, you can open the player and import your music folder to the player to start listening to it.


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