Nulloy: minimalist and multiplatform audio player

We already know many audio players in GNU / Linux, But muchos It is not enough, we want more and today I bring you another alternative that more than one may like.

Is nulloy, a minimalist and multiplatform audio player (written in Qt) that offers us just what we need, the possibility of listening to our audio files.

Nulloy appearance

By default the "skin" of nulloy It is in the Metro style, but in the application preferences (we access by right clicking on the window) we have 2 more options, that is, it would be one for Metro, another Native according to our configuration, and another similar to OS X.

El skin Native which adapts to the configuration of our default interface:

And skin Silver It is very similar to how OS X looks.

Otherwise there is not much else. The buttons to control our songs and choose some options for our playlist (random or repeat). Note the progress bar in the wave style (wave).

Options

As I mentioned at the beginning, it is a minimalist application not only in its appearance, but in its options, which although it does not have many, at least it has the necessary ones. The only bad thing I have seen so far is that it is only available in English.

As you can see on this first screen, we have the following options:

• Choose the default theme (skin).
• Always show the icon in the system tray.
• When closing hide in the systray.
• Restore playlist on restart.
• Show the log in case of error.
• Check for updates automatically.

Then we have the options to configure the way the information is displayed in the player and finally, the keyboard shortcuts. Did you want something else? Well, there is nothing else.

To add songs or folders we must do it from the right click on the playlist area. We can remove the songs from the list or move them to the trash, in addition, it allows us to open the directory where our file is located. Something interesting is that it also gives us the option to load "the next file" that exists in the directory where the current song is.

Installation

In the case of ArchLinux we can install from AUR:

$ yaourt -S nulloy

In the case of Ubuntu 14.04 (see other versions and Debian 7):

wget -q http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/sergey-vlasov:/Nulloy/xUbuntu_14.04/Release.key -O- | sudo apt-key add - sudo add-apt-repository 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/sergey-vlasov:/Nulloy/xUbuntu_14.04/ / #Nulloy' sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nulloy nulloy-gstreamer nulloy-taglib # Install extra GStreamer plugins for more audio formats: sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins- {good, bad, ugly}

Fedora 20 (see other versions) ::

su - cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/sergey-vlasov:/Nulloy/Fedora_20/home:sergey-vlasov:Nulloy.repo yum install nulloy nulloy -gstreamer nulloy-taglib # Install extra GStreamer plugins for more audio formats: yum install gstreamer {-ffmpeg, -plugins- {good, bad, ugly}}

and that's it. Hope you enjoy it 😉