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Audacious 3.6.1 released Now, Install on Debian 8 "jessie", Debian 7 "wheezy" , Fedora 22, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, Arch Linux, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) or Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA

Audacious is an open source audio player. A descendant of XMMS, Audacious plays your music how you want it, without stealing away your computer’s resources from other tasks. Drag and drop folders and individual song files, search for artists and albums in your entire music library, or create and edit your own custom playlists. Listen to CD’s or stream music from the Internet. Tweak the sound with the graphical equalizer or experiment with LADSPA effects. Enjoy the modern GTK-themed interface or change things up with Winamp Classic skins. Use the plugins included with Audacious to fetch lyrics for your music, to set an alarm in the morning, and more.
Audacious runs on Linux, on BSD derivatives, and on Microsoft Windows. To download and install the latest version (currently 3.6.1), please see the download page.

What's new in Audacious 3.6.1:

• Bugs fixed include #511, #512, #518, #520, and #522.

Key features include support for a wide range of audio file formats, support for dragging and dropping of individual song files and entire music folders, ability to search for albums or artists in your entire music collection, edit or create playlists, as well as to listen to Audio-CDs or Internet streams.

In addition, it features a graphical equalizer that lets users to tweak the sound, supports LADSPA effects, a complex plugin architecture (a collection of plugins is available for download separately), and support for Winamp Classic skins.

The plugins that are distributed along with the Audacious audio player will extend its default functionality, allowing users to fetch lyrics for songs, set alarms, add support for even more audio file formats, add tray icon support, Last.fm scrobbler, and much more.

Among other useful features, we can mention a queue manager, shuffle mode, repeat mode, "stop after this song" and "no playlist advance" functionality, detailed song information, removal of duplicate files, and renaming of files.

Audacious 3.6.1 released, Install on Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint
Users of Debian and its derivatives can install Audacious with apt-get:

# apt-get install audacious

Note that the versions of Audacious available in Debian stable and Ubuntu LTS releases tend to be rather out of date. Web Upd8 maintains a PPA with newer versions for Ubuntu users.

open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install audacious audacious-plugins

Optional, to remove audacious and audacious-plugins, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands: :

sudo apt-get remove audacious audacious-plugins

Fedora
Fedora users can install Audacious using yum:

# yum install audacious

However, the “audacious-plugins” package distributed by Fedora is lacking important plugins; most notably, the MP3 decoder plugin. The missing plugins can be installed by enabling the RPM Fusion repositories and running:

# yum install audacious-plugins-freeworld

Arch Linux
Audacious can be installed in Arch Linux using pacman:

# pacman -S audacious

Some plugins may fail to load unless all optional dependencies of the “audacious-plugins” package are satisfied. The ArchWiki has additional information about running Audacious on Arch Linux.

Gentoo
Gentoo includes Audacious in its portage tree, as media-sound/audacious. You can install the Gentoo ebuilds using emerge:

# emerge media-sound/audacious

To get the latest version, you may need to use the testing branch. See the Gentoo documentation for more details.

Gentoo package page for audacious
Gentoo package page for audacious-plugins 

Source Code

For GTK+ 2 or Qt 5:

• audacious-3.6.1.tar.bz2 (530 KB)
• audacious-plugins-3.6.1.tar.bz2 (1.7 MB)

For GTK+ 3:

• audacious-3.6.1-gtk3.tar.bz2 (530 KB)
• audacious-plugins-3.6.1-gtk3.tar.bz2 (1.7 MB)

Older releases are available here.


Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

Kodi 15.0 Isengard Alpha 2 Released, Available for Mac OSX, Windows 7, Windows 8, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana on PPA

Kodi (formerly XBMC Media Center) is an open source and very powerful project that provides all the necessary tools for transforming your regular PC into a bona fide HTPC, which if used in conjunction a big screen TV and a Hi-Fi audio system, will transform your living room into a veritable home theater.


Key features include powerful media management capabilities, a fluid Interface, plug-ins that allow for great extensibility, cinematic effects and visualizations, built-in multimedia codecs, themes, and much more. The application can play your entire collection of music files, supporting all the popular formats like MP3, FLAC, WAV, WMA or OGG. It also provides support for cue sheets, audio tagging and smart playlists.

Read This Page for PPA Ubuntu Archive

Your entire video collection can also be played by Kodi, supporting all the major video formats like AVI, MP4, DivX, XviD, DVD Video, MKV, and many more. In addition, it includes support for Internet streams. The program provides support for organizing and viewing your favorite TV shows, which will be sorted by episodes and seasons. Moreover, Kodi can be used to display an entire collection of digital photos.

There were 241 fixes, features, and improvements for Alpha2. Beyond the highlighted ones, here is a list of a few other improvements made.

• * Tuxbox removal. Users of Enigma2 boxes can use the VUPlus PVR add-on
• * Split PVR add-ons into separate projects
• * Fix season art scraping on newly added seasons
• * Immediately fetch updates from repository after major upgrade
• * Improvement of installing new skins selection
• * Remove legacy code pre-Frodo 11.0
• * Add jump to first unwatched in TV section
• * Remove certain codecs from our core code and made add-ons out of them. Audio encoders/decoders
• * Removal of AFP filesystem support
• * Windows DXVA HEVC hardware decoding support if driver and hardware support exist

to install Kodi 15.0 Isengard Alpha 2 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kodi

To update XBMC/Kodi when a new version is released, just do a general system/package or use the following commands in the terminal (or via SSH):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

If you need to remove and purge an application and finally removing/purging also the application configurations files, do so by using the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove kodi*
sudo apt-get purge kodi*

Releases Anounce | Home Kodi

Install DeaDBeeF 0.6.2 Ultimate Music Player on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA


DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is an audio player for GNU/Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris and other UNIX-like systems. There's also the Android version, which is a very different product. There are no Windows, OSX or iOS versions though, sorry for that.
Main features (the list is most likely far from complete):

• mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, ape, wv/iso.wv, wav, m4a/mp3 (aac and alac), mpc, tta, cd audio, and many more
• nsf, ay, vtx, vgm/vgz, spc and many other popular chiptune formats
• SID with HVSC song length database support for sid
• tracker modules - mod, s3m, it, xm, etc
• ID3v1, ID3v2.2, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, APEv2, Xing/Info, VorbisComments tag reading and writing, as well as reading many other tag/metadata formats in most supported formats
• automatic character set detection for non-unicode id3 tags - supports cp1251, iso8859-1, and now chinese cp936 (optional), as well as SHIFT-JIS and MS-DOS CP866 for selected formats
• unicode tags are fully supported as well (both utf8 and ucs2)
• cuesheet (.cue files) support, including charset detection/conversion
• clean fast GUI using GTK2 and GTK3, you pick what you like more!
• no GNOME or KDE dependencies
• minimization to system tray, with scrollwheel volume control, etc
• drag and drop, both in playlist, and from other apps
• control playback from command line
• global hotkeys
• multiple playlists using tabbed interface
• album cover display
• OSD notifications about current playing songs
• 18-band graphical equalizer and other DSP plugins
• built-in high quality tag editor, with custom fields support
• customizable groups in playlists
• customizable columns with flexible title formatting
• streaming radio support for ogg vorbis, mp3 and aac streams
• gapless playback for correctly encoded files
• lots of plugin, such as global hotkeys, last.fm scrobbler, converter, and many more, sdk is included
• comes with advanced Converter plugin, which allows to transcode files to other formats
• was tested on x86, x86_64, powerpc, arm, mips architectures, should work on most modern platforms
• new features are being added all the time -- check for updates frequently!

The player is developed by Alexey Yakovenko, with contributions from many different people (see about box in the player for more details).
For copyright freaks, the license is GNU General Public License version 2.
However, a huge portion of the code has ZLIB license, so you can grab the code which you like, and use it in your own projects without a hassle! check the source files for file-specific copyright statements.

• added “Stop playback after current album finished” (Aleksejs Popovs)
• added ALAC, OPUS, OggFlac encoder presets (Ian Nartowicz)
• added configure option to build artwork plugin without network support
• added new widget for muting chiptune voices
• added support for SHIFT-JIS charset detection/recoding (off by default)
• fixed “stop after current” bug, which required player restart on every change
• fixed –gui command line option
• fixed GUI seeking accuracy bug
• fixed bug in extended frame flags conversion between ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tag formats
• fixed crash when loading playlist from command line
• fixed loading album art (APIC frame) from ID3v2.4 with data length indicator
• fixed non-utf8 locale support in console
• fixed support for vorbis files with more than 6 channels
• fixed playlist count limit bug
• fixed preserving file permissions after editing ogg files
• fixed several bugs in PLS playlist format support
• improved FreeBSD and OSX support
• improved charset detection in CUE and ID3v1
• improved album art column rendering/resizing (Christian Boxdörfer)
• improved the build system and the output build quality
• improved detection of config changes, to avoid unnecessary config writing
• improved support for reading APEv2 and ID3v1 tags from large files (>2Gb)
• updated licensing information in all plugins, to include information about all used libraries
• aac: added workaround for 7 channel sound playback bug
• gme: added support for loading gzipped modules from supported archives (e.g. from zips)
• gtkui, pltbrowser: better accessibility
• gtkui: added option to disable seekbar overlay
• gtkui: added option to display playback state as unicode characters, instead of bitmaps (works better on HDPI screens)
• gtkui: added support for design mode to more widgets (seekbak, volumebar, playback toolbar)
• gtkui: fixed bug in gtk_drag_check_threshold handler
• gtkui: numerous fixes in widget layout code
• gtkui: single/double clicking on album art column will select/play the album/group (Christian Boxdörfer)
• lastfm: added support for scrobbling radio streams (off by default)
• lastfm: added support for scrobbling tracks shorter than 30 sec (off by default)
• lastfm: improved support for musicbrainz track id
• see full list

Install DeaDBeeF 0.6.2 Ultimate Music Player on Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

to Install DeaDBeeF 0.6.2 Ultimate Music Player on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:
 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:starws-box/deadbeef-player
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install deadbeef

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations. 

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

VLC 2.2.1 Media Player is Released, Install/Update on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA


VLC Media Player (formerly VideoLAN Client) is an open source and highly portable multimedia player application that integrates support for many audio and video formats, as well as DVDs, VCDs, and several streaming protocols. In addition to those, VLC reads Audio-CDs, DVB-S/C/T streams, MPEG encoding cards, and video acquisition from a supported V4L (Video4Linux) device.

VLC 2.2.1 "Terry Pratchett" is a fixed version of 2.2.0 "WeatherWax"
It fixes numerous crashes (FLAC, SPC), codec issues (VP9, Atrac3, AAC), regressions and several issues (Resume, MP4 chapters, MKV over network) and security issues.

What's new in VLC 2.2.1:

Codec:

• Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
• Fix some VP9 decoding
• Fix flac crashes
• Fix lpcm channel ordering
• Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
• Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
• Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder
• Fix AAC samplerate

Demuxers:

• Fix MP4 chapters
• Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
• Fix crash when playing SPC files
• Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
• Revert to older ASX code
• Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio

Access:

• Fix sftp read and close sockets
• Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
• Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows

Audio output:

• Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
• Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
• Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files

OS X:

• Fix numerous crashes in the UI
• Fix video-wallpaper mode
• Fix race when starting VLC from command line

Qt:

• Fix recent items behaviour
• Fix rotation filter activation
• Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard

Win32:

• Timestamp the signature of the dlls
• Fix extensions registration during install
• Fix extensions dialog crash
• Default to no DxVA decoding
• libVLC:
• fix libvlc_media_get_stats

Translations:

• Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations

The application can be used as a server to stream video in UDP/RTP Unicast or Multicast on IPv4 and IPv6 high-bandwidth networks. It also supports the HTTP, FTP and MMS protocols. Users will be able to use different video filters on movies, including deinterlace, crop, image wall, brightness, saturation, contrast, rotate, upside down, and logo overlay.


Among the input formats supported by VLC Media Player, we can mention MPEG ES/PS/TS/PVA/MP3, AVI, ASF/WMV/WMA, OGG/OGM/Annodex, MP4/MOV/3GPP, Matroska (MKV), WAV, DTS WAV, Raw DV, Raw AAC, Raw AC3/a52 audio, Raw DTS audio, and FLAC audio. The MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DivX 1/2/3, MPEG-4/DivX 5/XviD/3ivX D4, Sorenson (SVQ 1/3), DV, Cinepak, Theora, H263/H263i, MJPEG A/B and WMV 1/2 video codecs are supported by default.

Install/Update VLC 2.2.1 Media Player on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA :

    $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily
    $ sudo apt-get update
    $ sudo apt-get install vlc

    $ sudo apt-get remove vlc

Plex Media Server 0.9.12.1 released, Install on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Fedora 22, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, CentOS 6 and CentOS 6


Plex Media Server is a powerful application that will help you to manage and stream media files stored on your computer to various mobile devices and smart TVs, across a local network or over the Internet.

The application can be downloaded for Chromcast, Roku, Google TV, and a supported Samsung Smart TV, as well as on Synology, Netgear, QNAP, unRAID, Drobo and ASUSTOR NAS (Network-attached storage) devices.

Features at a glance

With Plex Media Server, you can organize your movie, photo, music and TV show collections in order to access them easily and fast from one of the aforementioned devices and platforms.

It can serve content to clients on the same machine or within the local network, and even over the Internet. One of its best features is that it includes its own App Store, from where plug-ins can be installed and extend the default functionality of the software.

In addition to the free version reviewed here, there's also a PlexPass edition of Plex Media Server, which provides users with a paid service that gives them early access to new versions and premium features.


What's new in Plex Media Server 0.9.12.1:

• New:
• Enable iTunes importing code for UNIX; set advanced preference with path to library XML.
• Support for decade-based filtering for movies and albums.
• Add a hidden preference for sorting albums (AlbumSort, with default value "year:desc", you can set "year", "title", etc.).
• Add a new library preference to tell scanner to respect media tags (for new libraries).
• CentOS 7 support.
• Fixes:
• A crash shortly after startup.
• (Linux) Crash on start.
• (Windows) Scanner might not pick up new media, or might stop in the middle.
• A few other crashes and minor stability issues.
• Fix install/uninstall issues on Ubuntu/Mint.
• Fixed possible issue locking out an alternate admin user on Synology

Install Plex Media Server 0.9.12.1 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, Mac OSX and CentOS

$ sudo dpkg -i plexmediaserver_*.deb

In case “dpkg” indicates missing dependencies, complete the installation by executing the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install -f

FEDORA


Download for Fedora 32 bit
Download for Fedora 64 bit

to install Plex Media Server 0.9.12.1 on Fedora 22, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands: 

$ sudo yum install plexmediaserver-*.rpm

CENTOS

Download for CentOS 32 bit
Download for CentOS 64 bit

to install Plex Media Server 0.9.12.1 on CentOS 6 AND 7, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands: 

$ sudo yum install plexmediaserver-*.rpm

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

Install / update Kodi 16.0 Alpha 3 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA

Kodi (formerly XBMC Media Center) is an open source and very powerful project that provides all the necessary tools for transforming your regular PC into a bona fide HTPC, which if used in conjunction a big screen TV and a Hi-Fi audio system, will transform your living room into a veritable home theater.

Features at a glance

Key features include powerful media management capabilities, a fluid Interface, plug-ins that allow for great extensibility, cinematic effects and visualizations, built-in multimedia codecs, themes, and much more. The application can play your entire collection of music files, supporting all the popular formats like MP3, FLAC, WAV, WMA or OGG. It also provides support for cue sheets, audio tagging and smart playlists.

Your entire video collection can also be played by Kodi, supporting all the major video formats like AVI, MP4, DivX, XviD, DVD Video, MKV, and many more. In addition, it includes support for Internet streams. The program provides support for organizing and viewing your favorite TV shows, which will be sorted by episodes and seasons. Moreover, Kodi can be used to display an entire collection of digital photos.

What New in version 16.0 Alpha 3

• More and more hardware companies are coming out with remote controls with a very limited button set. In particular, all current Android TVs are lacking a dedicated context menu button altogether. To deal with this, we’ve taken a page from the touchscreen UX and added a long press feature to remote controls. Now, if you press and hold the OK/Enter button for a few seconds, you will pull up the context menu. In the future, long press may be extended for additional functionality. For a better view of what this means, see the following video.
• Three finger touchpad mapping in iOS to make room for new tablet gestures which will be available in Alpha 4 to complement existing tablet gestures.
• Kodi now supports being compiled with Xcode 7
• The Kodi GUI now supports a new stereoscopic depth effect for users of Kodi on 3D TVs or VR headsets
• The Music Library and Files View for music have now been unified, similar to how video files and library are unified

Install / update Kodi 16.0 Alpha 3 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA

Kodi 15.0 Beta 1 Released, How to Install on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) or Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA


Kodi (formerly XBMC Media Center) is an open source and very powerful project that provides all the necessary tools for transforming your regular PC into a bona fide HTPC, which if used in conjunction a big screen TV and a Hi-Fi audio system, will transform your living room into a veritable home theater.

Here it is, the first beta build for Kodi 15.0; freshly baked and ready to be served! We could call Kodi 15.0 a “clean-up” edition due to the lack of any prominent features and due to the massive spring cleaning we have been doing during the past months. Although some nice new features have been added, the majority of work was done cleaning up the vast complexity of code that was built up over the years. Though we still have a long way to go.

Some of you might feel that we are releasing the new beta quite soon after the 14.2 stable release, however this is part of our plan. We intend to release more often with smaller features. This way the changes are more manageable and we can quicker squash any bugs that get left behind into next release.


There were about 780 requests that contained multiple fixes, features, and improvements that went into the current 15.0 beta release. All these changes should sum up in an even better user experience while using Kodi. We could start summing up all the changes but there’s really no point in doing so. Instead will make a quick selection of the most important changes done.

• * Reworked add-on manger that should give a better overview
• * Chapter selection window that shows thumbs on where to skip to in the video
• * Easier to navigate audio and subtitle selection list
• * Addition of language add-ons which allow us to update the User-Interface text outside of regular releases
• * Expansion of international options like time and date format, temperature and speed units.
• * Skip steps (step forward & backwards) improvements.
• * Tuxbox removal. Users of Enigma2 boxes can use the VUPlus PVR add-on
• * Split PVR add-ons into separate projects which should allow updates through repo in the future
• * Fix season art scraping on newly added seasons
• * Immediately fetch updates from repository after Kodi version upgrade
• * Improvement of installing new skins selection
• * Remove legacy code pre-Frodo 11.0
• * Add jump to first unwatched in TV section
• * Remove certain codecs from our core code and made add-ons out of them. Audio encoders/decoders
• * Removal of AFP filesystem support
• * Windows DXVA HEVC hardware decoding support if driver and hardware support exist
• * Added adaptive seeking through audio and video playback, also know as “skip steps”
• * Android HEVC H.265 support for some chipsets
• * Improve webserver caching control
• * External subtitles over UPnP can be enabled through the settings section
• * Allow scanning of new sources and marking as watched during other library operations such as “update library”
• * Allow different sort orders for different sort methods
• * Start of integration binary add-ons and changing the build system around it
• * Improved CC (Closed Captions) support for Live TV
• * ffmpeg 2.6.2 update
• * Removal remaining SDL code which was used in some areas.
• * Changed code to  C++11
• * Variety of memleaks, segfaults, crashes and minor issues fixed
• * Rescrape season art for newly added seasons
• * Upgrade included webserver which should fix issues with remotes loosing connections
• * On Android the system now handles the volume
• * General improvements regarding code stability and performance in all areas
• * General code clean-up in all areas to simplify adding future features

• * Mac OSX
  • - Minimal 10.7 Lion required
  • - Only OSX 64-bit builds provided by us, so no more 32bit builds
  • - Minimal MacOSX 10.10 SDK
• * iOS
  • - Minimal iOS 5.1 required
  • - Minimal iOS 8.1 SDK
  • - No more ATV2 builds
• * Android
  • - Minimum Android 4.2 Jelly Bean MR1 required
  • - Android API 17 as minimum with SDK 14 and NDK 10e
  • - Removed the need for root/SU on Android. Some hardware/firmware might not like that. Please contact your hardware supplier
  • - Android PIL packaging fixed

and much more…

Install Kodi 15.0 Beta 1 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) or Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA

To Install/Update Kodi 15.0 Beta 1 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Use the command line terminal and enter the following commands. Follow the prompts as you would any other software installation.

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kodi

For Install Kodi Addons you can follow this page.

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

Lollypop 0.9.15 Released, How to Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA

Lollypop is a completely free and open source and freely distributed graphical application implemented in Python/GTK+ for the GNOME desktop environment, designed from the offset to act as a simple and intuitive music player software.

Features at a glance
Key features include support for reading MP3, MP4, FLAC and OGG Vorbis audio files, support for browsing album covers, artists and music genre, built-in search, party mode, album art downloader, ReplayGain support, context artist view, as well as support for queuing songs.

Its graphical user interface is modern, easy to use, intuitive and follows the GNOME HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) specifications, which means that it integrates perfectly into the GNOME 3 desktop environment.

What's new in Lollypop 0.9.15:

• Fix an input issue

Install Lollypop 0.9.15 on Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

To Install/Update Lollypop 0.9.15 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnumdk/lollypop
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lollypop

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Kodi (formerly XBMC Media Center) is an open source and very powerful project that provides all the necessary tools for transforming your regular PC into a bona fide HTPC, which if used in conjunction a big screen TV and a Hi-Fi audio system, will transform your living room into a veritable home theater.

Features at a glance

Key features include powerful media management capabilities, a fluid Interface, plug-ins that allow for great extensibility, cinematic effects and visualizations, built-in multimedia codecs, themes, and much more. The application can play your entire collection of music files, supporting all the popular formats like MP3, FLAC, WAV, WMA or OGG. It also provides support for cue sheets, audio tagging and smart playlists.


Your entire video collection can also be played by Kodi, supporting all the major video formats like AVI, MP4, DivX, XviD, DVD Video, MKV, and many more. In addition, it includes support for Internet streams. The program provides support for organizing and viewing your favorite TV shows, which will be sorted by episodes and seasons. Moreover, Kodi can be used to display an entire collection of digital photos.

What New in Kodi 15.0 RC1:

• Minimal 10.7 Lion 64-bit required on Mac OSX
• Minimal iOS 5.1 required and no more ATV2
• Minimum Android 4.2 Jelly Bean MR1 required on Android
• Various improvements in PVR section. This includes skin support and new PVR add-ons
• Complete video database clean-up session on stored data (no data will be lost). This may take some time on first run
• ffmpeg 2.6.2 update which bring better codec compatibility and playback
• Improved CC (Closed Captions) support for Live TV
• Fix the queuing of music videos
• Improvement of FF/RW (fast-forward / rewinding) of videos
• Improved logic to make PVR, audio encoders and audio decoders optional
• Fix of grouping movie sets when navigating in smartplaylists
• External subtitles over UPnP can be enabled through the settings section
• Allow scanning of new sources and marking as watched during other library operations such as “update library”
• Allow different sort orders for different sort methods
• Skip steps (step forward & backwards) improvements for videos and music
• Add jump to first unwatched in TV section
• Fix subtitles showing on top of each other in certain cases
• Reworked add-on manager that should give a better overview
• Chapter selection window that shows thumbs on where to skip to in the video
• Easier to navigate audio and subtitle selection list
• Show progress for add-on repository update
• Addition of language add-ons which allow us to update the User-Interface text outside of regular Kodi releases
• Immediately fetch updates from repository after Kodi version upgrade to prevent delay in getting better compatible add-ons or skins
• Expansion of international options like time and date format, temperature and speed units.
• Improvement of installing new skins selection
• Upgrade included webserver which should fix issues with iOS or Android remotes loosing connections
• Fix season art scraping on newly added seasons
• On Android the system now handles the volume instead of Kodi
• Android HEVC H.265 support for some chipsets
• Refreshrate switching on Android 5.0 opr higher (your device must have the proper implementation of these features to support it)
• 4K@60Hz playback on the NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV
• Reworked the storage provider on Android. This fixes several problems with mounting points for storage.
• Remove default 250ms audio delay on Android for AMLogic chipsets. You may need to adjust the delay again
• Remove certain codecs from our core code and made add-ons out of them. So called Audio encoders/decoders
• Removed the need for root/SU on Android. Some hardware/firmware might not like that. Please contact your hardware supplier
• Removal of Tuxbox support. Users of Enigma2 boxes can use the VUPlus PVR add-on
• Removal of AFP filesystem support
• Remove legacy code pre-Frodo 11.0
• Vast amount of possible memory leaks, segfaults, crashes and minor issues have been fixed
• General improvements regarding code stability and performance in all areas
• General code clean-up in all areas to simplify adding future features

How to Install Kodi 15.0 Isengard RC 1 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint / Elementary OS via PPA :

To Install Kodi 15.0 Isengard RC 1 on on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.2 "Rafaela", Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Use the command line terminal and enter the following commands. Follow the prompts as you would any other software installation.

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kodi

Installing PVR Addons
The Linux release of Kodi doesn't include any PVR addons by default. To install a PVR addon, run the following command and replace the XXXXXX with the PVR addon of your choice:

sudo apt-get install kodi-pvr-XXXXXXX 

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations. 

XBMC Media Center 13.0 "Gotham" Beta 1 has been released, bringing improvements across all platforms, such as hardware decoding on Android, proper PulseAudio support for Linux, improved settings, support for some 3D movie formats and more.

XBMC is a free, open source digital media hub and home theater PC that comes with a 10-foot user interface, which can be used to play videos, music and other media, either from local storage or via LAN or Internet. 

The application is highly customizable and supports a wide variety of skins as well as plugins that can be used to access content from services such as YouTube, Spotify, Grooveshark and so on. The application also comes with a PVR (Personal Video Recorder) frontend for Live TV with DVR and PVR support.

It's also worth mentioning that due to changes related to the addon system and skin, some plugins, scripts and skins that used to work on XBMC 12.0 may not work with the latest XBMC 13.0.

Here are some XBMC 13.1 beta 1 screenshots:

Ubuntu users can use the official XBMC pre-releases PPA to install the latest XBMC 13.0 Gotham beta 1. However, note that XBMC 13.0 is still in beta and while it was widely used and tested over the past several months, it's still beta software so you may encounter bugs! 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xbmc

If you prefer to install the stable version (12.3), you can use the official XBMC stable PPA for Ubuntu.

FFmpeg 2.7 released, you can Install on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) or Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA


FFmpeg is an open source utility that allows Linux, Windows and Mac OS X users to playback, convert, record and stream video and audio files. It is used in almost all Linux distributions. It is a command-line software that can encode, decode, demux, mux, transcode, stream, play and filter almost any media format available. FFmpeg uses libavcodec, the most advanced audio/video codec library for Linux and UNIX-like systems.

Features at a glance

The software is comprised of a multimedia streaming server for live broadcasts, a simple media player based on the powerful SDL library, a simple multimedia stream analyzer, a library that contains functions for simplifying programming, and another library that includes muxers and demuxers for multimedia container formats. Additionally, it comes with support for input and output devices, media filters, a library for performing highly optimized image scaling and color space/pixel format conversion operations, and a library for performing highly optimized audio rematrixing, resampling and sample format conversions.

2.7.1 was released on 2015-06-19. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release from the 2.7.1 release branch, which was cut from master on 2015-06-09. Amongst lots of other changes, it includes all changes from ffmpeg-mt, libav master of 2015-06-10, libav 11 as of 2015-06-11.

It includes the following library versions:

• libavutil  54. 27.100
• libavcodec 56. 41.100
• libavformat 56. 36.100
• libavdevice 56.  4.100
• libavfilter 5. 16.101
• libavresample 2.  1.  0
• libswscale 3.  1.101
• libswresample 1.  2.100
• libpostproc 53.  3.100

 

How to Install FFmpeg 2.7.1 on Debian, Fedora, Linux Mint and Ubuntu Derivative System via PPA :

to install FFmpeg 2.7.1 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jon-severinsson/ffmpeg
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install frei0r-plugins

To remove, do :

sudo apt-get remove ffmpeg

For Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages (i386, x86_64) and debian packages.

Converting videos and audios has never been so easy.

$ ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.avi

Kid3 3.3.0 is released, An easy to use and Open Source batch MP3 tag editor for your GNU/Linux distribution

Kid3 is an open source piece of software that provides users with a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use tag editor for a wide range of audio file formats. It supports both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags, and features a batch processing functionality.

Features at a glance

Key features include the ability to edit ID3v1.1 tags, edit ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 frames, easily convert between ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags, generate tags from filenames, generate filenames from tags, generate playlists, create and rename folders from tags, as well as to generate tags from tag fields' content.

In addition, it allows users to import tags from various music services, such as MusicBrainz, Amazon, freedb2.org or Discogs, export tags to a wide range for file formats, including Kover XML, HTML, CSV or playlist, as well as to import and export LRC files.

Furthermore, the application can edit multiple files at once, as well as event timing codes and synchronized lyrics. Supported audio file types include MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP4/AAC, MPC, WAV, MP2, WMA, Speex, WavPack, TrueAudio, and AIFF.

What New in Kid3 3.3.0:
New:

• Make order of quick access frames configurable.
• Support separators and submenus in user action context menu.
• Restore defaults button in settings dialog.
• CSV import from multiple directories.
• Support for lyrics.wikia.com in embed lyrics script.
• Support for chapter and table of contents audiobook frames.
• Mac, Windows: Support for podcast frames.

Improved:

• Display user friendly names for all supported frames.
• Updated Czech translation.
• Change file permissions in the case of modified file names.

Fixed:

• Wrong and missing translations.
• Removing ID3v1 genre with id3lib.
• KDE 5: Name filters used in file dialogs, blocking file dialogs.
• KDE 5: Invoking help in settings dialog.
• KDE 4: Build with kdelibs-4.14.11.
• Qt 5.5: Spurious popping up of download dialog.
• Do not abort build if qmlplugindump cannot be started.

Install on Kid3 3.3.0 Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Linux Mint via PPA :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ufleisch/kid3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kid3-qt

For KDE Users

sudo apt-get install kid3
sudo apt-get install kid3-cli

Ubuntu 15.04 binaries (64-bit)
Core libraries (required) kid3-core_3.3.0-0vivid_amd64.deb
KDE application kid3_3.3.0-0vivid_amd64.deb
Application without KDE dependencies kid3-qt_3.3.0-0vivid_amd64.deb,
Command-line interface kid3-cli_3.3.0-0vivid_amd64.deb 

VidMasta is a platform-independent and freely distributed application designed to be used by anyone who wants to quickly and easily get detailed information about their favorite movies or the latest TV shows.

Supports a wide variety of video formats

It supports the standard 720p and 1080p/1080i HD (High-Definition) video formats, as well as the classic HQ (High-Quality) DVD and TV 4:3 or 16:9/16:10 formats. In addition, you can whitelist or blacklist certain video file extensions, such as AVI, MKV, VOB, WMV, MPG, MPEG, MP4, MOV, M2TS, ISO, BIN, or RAR.

The graphical user interface is easy-to-use, allowing users to use profiles, set default download size, manage proxies, set default results per search, connection timeout settings, language, country, web browser start notification, as well as new HQ movies on startup.

Features

• Watch or download movie and television titles in any format (TV, DVD, 720p, 1080i/p) with as few as two clicks of the mouse. The first click is to hit the search button. The second click is to hit the play or download button.
• Anonymity via automatic filtering of untrusty IPs, the use of proxies, and encryption
• "Deep Search, Best Source" algorithm for superior video download links. The algorithm aggregates all potential download links based on variations of the search query and then selects the best link based on factors that include trustworthiness, number of downloaders and uploaders, and video file size.
• "Popular Movies" option to display recent movies that have been downloaded the most
• "Popular TV Shows" option to display recent TV shows that have been downloaded the most
• Download video subtitles
• Set the number of results per search
• Set the minimum and maximum size of a video file that can be downloaded
• Set the video file extensions that can be downloaded
• Search for movie and television titles by name, release date, genre, rating, country, and language
• Automatic ordering of search results by popularity
• Hear and read small summaries of titles
• View trailers of titles
• View release dates and ratings of titles
• Email download links and trailer links
• Detection of video box sets
• PeerBlock integration (only available for Windows XP and higher)