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SMPlayer is an open source and free multimedia player available for Linux and MS Windows, released under GNU General Public License. Unlike other players it doesn't require you to install codecs to play something because it carries its own all required codecs with itself. This is the first release which now support MPV and some other features such as MPRIS v2 Support, new theme, 3D stereo filter and more. It uses the award-winning MPlayer as playback engine which is capable of playing almost all known video and audio formats (avi, mkv, wmv, mp4, mpeg... see list).
Harmony is audio player inspired from iTunes, it is built with Electron and vanilla JS, available for Linux, Windows and Mac. It plays audio files locally and from cloud services as well. It is based on plugins, and plugins are available for Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Play Music, Hype Machine, Deezer, and local files.
It is skinable means you can write and install themes but it has two themes available other than default. Harmony can be controlled using keyboard shortcuts and media keys. Press ? to see the list of available shortcuts. It is responsive design player that means you can resize it however you want, make it compact or half screen or full screen, it will follow you. It uses the tray or the sound menu integration to control the playback even when the app isn't focused.
Developers can now create their own plugins, as it is possible for users to install third-parties in Harmony. You can checkout documentation for themes and plugins.
There are plenty of music players available and you may have your favorite one installed but there is no harm to try something different. Lollypop is a modern and fast audio player, inspired from material design, it is free and works with almost every Linux distribution and FreeBSD.
It does great job of organizing and browsing albums and artists. You can view all the albums you have in one long list. Clicking on one of them will bring a popup at the bottom of the screen where you will see a list of all the songs on that album. Queue option works as temporary playlist. You can add songs to a queue, and then re-order or remove songs as you please.
It lets you integrate online radios, most recent version features a nice interface for adding, browsing, and playing online radio stations. It supports common audio formats: mp3, mp4, ogg and flac.

lollypop player

lollypop audio player

Features:
  • Artist bio, lyrics: Get artists and tracks information from the web.
  • Intuitive browsing: Walk through your collection by genres/artists and through albums artwork.
  • Formats supported: mp3, mp4, ogg, and flac
  • Cover art downloader: Automatic artwork downloader from Last.fm, Itunes and Spotify.
  • MTP devices: Sync your music with Android phones and any mtp devices…
  • Fullscreen view: Visual access from your couch
  • Party mode: Let Lollypop choose music for you.
  • Queue: The queue is a source designed to temporarily store the next tracks you want to play.
  • Replay gain: Native replay gain support.
  • Search: Search in your collection by artist, album and title.
  • Web: Play music from the Web
  • Genre/Cover browsing
  • Genre/Artist/Cover browsing
  • Fullscreen view
  • Auto install codecs
  • HiDPI support

How to install?

Available for Ubuntu 17.10 Artful/17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/Linux Mint 18/and other Ubuntu based distributions
To install Lollypop Player in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:


Which is your favorite audio player? Let us know in the comment below!
MPV video player is forked from mplayer2 and MPlayer, MPV supports wide variety of audio and video file formats. It offers some of the features with the former project while introducing many more. It is an command-line video player as well as offers GUI, it is lightweight and cross-platform available for Linux, Mac and Windows. From command line MPlayer's options parser was improved to behave more like other CLI programs, and many option names and semantics were reworked to make them more intuitive and memorable.
High quality video output: MPV has a OpenGL based video output that is capable of many features loved by videophiles, such as video scaling with popular high quality algorithms, color management, frame timing, interpolation, and more. While mpv has no official GUI, it has a small controller that is triggered by mouse movement. mpv leverages the FFmpeg hwaccel APIs to support VDPAU, VAAPI, DXVA2, VDA and VideoToolbox video decode acceleration. In addition, it features better pause handling, VDPAU improvements, support for modifier keys, correct color reproduction, better handling of audio and video synchronization, high quality subtitles, as well as support for playing multiple files at the same time. Another interesting feature of mpv is the ability to play video files a higher quality than many other open source multimedia player applications, simply because it relies on the FFmpeg’s hwaccel APIs (supporting VAAPI, VDA and VDPAU video decode acceleration).

Sayonara is a simple, lightweight and quite fast audio player only for Linux which is written in C++, it also supportet by Qt framework. For audio backend it uses gstreamer. It carries a lot of feature to manage big audio collections. While developing this program they focused on it's performance, it consumes very low CPU and memory.
One of Sayonara's goals are intuitive and easy usability never leading to the impression you are using an unnecessary bloated program therefore it should be able to compete with the most popular music players. It has a lot of features like a library, id3 tag editor, equalizer, lastfm radio, lastfm scrobbler, stream recorder and so on..
VLC media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG, DivX/Xvid, Ogg, and many more) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. However in recent years it has also become a extremely powerful server to stream live and on demand video in several formats to our network and the Internet.
VideoLAN and the VLC development team released the new major version of VLC, 2.2.2. With a new audio core, hardware decoding and encoding, port to mobile platforms, preparation for Ultra-HD video and a special care to support more formats, 2.2.2 is a major upgrade for VLC. Rincewind has a new rendering pipeline for audio, with better effiency, volume and device management, to improve VLC audio support. It supports many new devices inputs, formats, metadata and improves most of the current ones, preparing for the next-gen codecs.
Rhythmbox is free software released under GNU General Public License, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. Rhythmbox is a very easy to use music playing and management program which supports a wide range of audio formats (including mp3 and ogg). Originally inspired by Apple's iTunes, the current version also supports Internet Radio, iPod integration and generic portable audio player support, Audio CD burning, Audio CD playback, music sharing, and Podcasts.
Install GMusicBrowser in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/13.04 Raring/12.10 Quantal/12.04 Precise/11.10/11.04/10.10/10.04/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13/12/11/10/9/other Ubuntu derivatives

GmusicBrowser is an open-source audio player, written in perl. It can handle large collection of mp3/ogg/flac/mpc/ape audio files. It uses gstreamer, mpg123/ogg123 or mplayer for playback. It layout is very flexible and can be customized to popular audio players (Audacious, itunes, Exaile, Quodlibet, Rhythmbox, and Rhythmbox compact). Album/artist lock and album/artist restriction can be applied easily, support multiple genres per audio track/ ratings/ and customizable labels, filters can be applied with any unlimited conditions and so on...
Install Nuvola Player 2.2.0 in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric/11.04 Natty/10.10 Maverick/Linux Mint 15/14/13/12/11/10/and other Ubuntu derivatives

Nuvola Player is an open-source project licensed under 2-Clause BSD license and written in Vala (the core) and JavaScript (service integration). Nuvola Player runs a web interface of cloud music services in its own window and provides integration with a Linux desktop (multimedia keys, system tray, media player applets, dock menu, notifications and more).
nuvola player
Fixes in this release:
  • File INSTALL: Added information how to run Nuvola Player from source directory.
  • Google Play: Fixed detection of playback status.
  • Google Play: Enable links to song downloading.
  • Last.fm love and ban actions are available from the main menu (control), tray icon and Unity quick list.
  • Nuvola Player supports scrobling to Libre.fm, a free Last.fm alternative.
  • Updated translations.
  • Updated translations template.
  • Deezer: Fixed metadata and playback status parsing. 
Install Banshee Media Player 2.6.1 in Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.10/12.04/11.10/Linux Mint 15/14/13/12/ and previous version in 10.10/10.04/Linux Mint 10/9/and other Ubuntu derivatives

Banshee is the culmination of six months' work by 35 developers, 38 translators and dozens of bug reporters and testers. It is a stable release, the successor to Banshee 2.0.
Play your audios and videos. Keep up with your podcasts and Internet radio. Discover new music and podcasts. Keep your portable device loaded with good stuff.
Banshee music player

banshee

banshee
What's New in this release:
  • Add .amr extension to import whitelist
  • DatabaseTrackInfo: don't default to MusicFilePattern when null
  • DapPropertiesDialog: Make sure progress bar value is valid
  • PlaylistFileUtil: Only import playlist items that are files
  • Avoid race when using GConf and DBus with threads
  • ListView: Do not enable a11y when it would cause freezes
  • Dap: better check for the playing track before ejecting
  • PrimarySource: prevent AddTrackJob respawn if cancelled
  • LastFm: Avoid crashing if scrobbling response is not JSON
  • configure: stop using obsolete AutoMake macro
  • Docs: Removed "Common Problems"
  • Mtp: Fix file type in sync with libmtp > 1.1.0
  • Dap: Use Unicode codes for quotation marks
  • LastFm: Null check for scrobble parameters
  • Add GTK category in .desktop files to comply with spec
  • StatisticsPage: Fix crash when no tracks are selected

To install Banshee in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
Source: Banshee
Install QMPlay2 Media Player in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 15/14/13/other Ubuntu derivatives

QMplay2 is basically QT-based and available for all current Ubuntu versions. It also has some styles which can be changed to GTK+, Windows, Cleanlooks, CDE, Motif, and Plastique.
This player support most video, music and subtitles. Also video playback and Internet streams (eg wrzuta, youtube, http, rtsp, rtmp, mms, and more). It has ability to support video decoding for the time being by the GPU only VAAPI (X11 only). It offers several other options Equalizer, Downloader, and YouTube.
qmplay2

qmplay2

qmplay2

qmplay2

qmplay2

Changes in this version:
  • Many changes in the code that enabled image filtering (eg class: Video-frame, Video-filters, and others).
  • Tool-tip for the title in the search YouTube, improve operations, and the ability to open only sound.
  • In image filtering (currently only de-interlacing: Discard, Blend, Bob).
  • Ability to change the scale of the FFT spectrum and minor corrections.
  • Added support for equalizer image for OpenGL and QPainter.
  • Opportunity to build with AVResample instead SWResample.
  • Ablility to choose the file format for screenshots.
  • Hotkeys for volume control.
  • Improved performance audio equalizer.
  • Independence of the decoder from demuxer.
  • Added Russian translation.
  • De-interlacing with twice the number of frames per second.
  • Support for subtitles.
  • Possibility to make screenshots.
  • Many other fixes.

To install QMPlay2 in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
Source: QMPlay2
Install Noise Audio Player in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 15/13/other Ubuntu derivatives

Noise is an official audio player in Elementary OS Luna. Noise is a fast and beautiful GTK3 audio player with a focus on music and libraries. It handles external devices, CDs, and album art. Noise utilizes Granite for a consistent and slick UI. It automatically find tracks and show them without any complication.
It exposes albums in big shadowed previews, display extra information to the selected tracks, also previews helped by the right-side panel. It has it's own offers Equalizer to adjust track tone. Also there are filters in the left pane, like favorite, never played, history, recently added, and similar.
Noise also can handle external devices, such as: iPods, iOS devices and syncing music to Android devices. Additionally, it offers CD ripping, separate partitions, and more.
noise player

noise player
Note: It is not available for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Linux Mint 14

To install Noise Player in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
Source: Noise
Install Nuvola Player 2.0.4 in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric/11.04 Natty/10.10 Maverick/Linux Mint 15/14/13/12/11/10/and other Ubuntu derivatives

Nuvola Player runs a web interface of cloud music services in its own window and provides integration with a Linux desktop (multimedia keys, system tray, media player applets, dock menu, notifications and more).Nuvola Player is an open-source project licensed under GNU GPL 3 and written mainly in Vala (the core) and JavaScript (service integrations).

What's in this release:
  • Google Play: Google Play web interface has been changed many times introducing breakages in Hide Google bar feature, parsing of song details, playback status and available actions.
  • Google Play: Google Play UI has changed and shows also album name of the current song, so it's possible to pass it to Nuvola core.
  • Google Play: Flash plugin has been enabled, because Google Play Music All Access feature requires it (HTML5 audio is not supported).
  • Google Play: Also added reason why all store links are opened in a default web browser.
  • 8tracks: updated metadata parsing.
  • PopupWebView: Pop-up windows were sometimes unusable, because page area was tiny and rest of the window was empty.
  • Run-in-background feature no longer requires tray icon.
  • MPRIS can-go-next/prev actions weren't updated because of a bug.
  • Updated translations.

Some issues:
  • Google Play Music fails to play songs (Google Play is having trouble reaching the server to play your music, "Fix: make sure you have installed a MP3 decoder for GStreamer media framework")
  • Grooveshark: You're all out of focus! (You're all out of focus! Zooming in or out may cause problems viewing the site.)
  • Some services fail to detect Flash plugin (You have to install a Flash plugin)
  • No integration with Ubuntu Unity (Many features were rewritten as extensions, you have to enable them in Preferences dialog.)

To install Nuvola Player in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Download source from here for other Distributions.
Source: Nuvola player
Install VLC 2.0.7 Media Player in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 15/14/13

VLC media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG, DivX/Xvid, Ogg, and many more) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. However in recent years it has also become a extremely powerful server to stream live and on demand video in several formats to our network and the Internet.
vlc

vlc

vlc
Features:
  • Simple, fast and powerful media player.
  • Plays everything: Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams.
  • Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed:
    • MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3...
  • Runs on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix...
  • Completely Free, 0 spyware, 0 ads and no user tracking.
  • Can do media conversion and streaming.
  • More info.
What's new in this release:
  • Input: Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
  • Input: Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted playlist files
  • Decoders: Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
  • Encoders: Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
  • Muxers: Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
  • Video output: Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
  • Translations: Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian BokmÃ¥l, Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations.

To install VLC in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
Source: videolan
Install VLC 2.0.6 Media Player in Ubuntu 13.04/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 14/13

VLC media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG, DivX/Xvid, Ogg, and many more) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. However in recent years it has also become a extremely powerful server to stream live and on demand video in several formats to our network and the Internet.
vlc

vlc

Features:
  • Simple, fast and powerful media player.
  • Plays everything: Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams.
  • Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed:
    • MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3...
  • Runs on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix...
  • Completely Free, 0 spyware, 0 ads and no user tracking.
  • Can do media conversion and streaming.
  • More info.
What's new in this release:
  • Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
  • Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
  • Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
  • Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
  • Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
  • Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
  • Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
  • Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
  • Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
  • Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
  • Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
  • 3rd party codecs updates
  • Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
  • Translation Updates: New Gujarati, Aragonese translations

To install VLC in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
Source: videolan
Install Xnoise 0.2.17 lightweight Media Player in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Linux Mint 14, Xnoise 0.2.15 in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Mint 13 and Xnoise 0.2.12 in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric/Mint 12

Xnoise, a lightweight music player with minimal interface has been updated bringing in many new features and fixes. Xnoise is written in Vala and supports video playback making it one stop media application. Xnoise is a media player for GTK+ with a slick GUI, great speed and lots of features.
xnoise
Features:
  • Fast searchable media library
  • Music and Video support
  • 'Smart playlists' for last played and most played tracks
  • ID3 tag editing
  • Automatic album art fetching
  • 'Now playing' pane
  • State restore
  • Can play any GStreamer media
  • Media key support
  • Lightweight and speedy
  • Plugins for UbuntuOne Music Store, MPRIS, LastFm (album art and scrobbling), Lyrics fetching, Notifications, Ubuntu Soundmenu, and so on.
  • And more!
What's new in this Release:
  • Port to Gstreamer-1.0
  • New dbus album art collector service
  • New round Icon Button for Album Art view
  • Add appindicator plugin for Ubuntu
  • New sidebar style with symbolic icons
  • Add item handler for cover image removal
  • Add 'Filter for artist' item handler
  • Dbus service file for xnoise playerengine
  • Add new sortings for albumart view
  • Render some extra info into album art view
  • Visual adjustments for settings dialog
  • Redo album art rendering
  • Explicitly link against m and gstvideo to fix linknig with ld.gold
  • update translations
  • Various fixes

To Install Xnoise Media Player in Ubuntu/Linux Mint Open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
Source: Xnoise
Install SMPlayer 0.8.4 with YouTube and Mplayer support in Ubuntu 12.10/Ubuntu 12.04/11.10/11.04/10.10/10.04/9.10/9.04/All Linux Mint versions

SMPlayer is a complete media player for Windows and Linux. It uses the award-winning MPlayer as playback engine which is capable of playing most video and audio formats (avi, mkv, wmv, mp4, mpeg... see list). It uses its own codecs, so you don't need to install any codec packs.
One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave... don't worry, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume...
List of Features:
  • Complete preferences dialog, where you can change the key shortcuts, colors and fonts of the subtitles, and many more.
  • Filters. Many video and audio filters are available: deinterlace, postprocessing, denoise... and even a karaoke filter (voice removal).
  • Seeking by mouse wheel. You can use your mouse wheel to go forward or backward in the video. The mouse buttons can also be customized.
  • Video equalizer, allows you to adjust the brightness, contrast, hue, saturation and gamma of the video image.
  • Multiple speed playback. You can play at 2X, 4X... and even in slow motion.
  • Audio and subtitles delay adjustment. Allows you to sync audio and subtitles.
  • Advanced options, such as selecting a demuxer or video & audio codecs.
  • Possibility to search and download subtitles from opensubtitles.org.
  • It can play Youtube videos. A Youtube browser is included, which allows to easily download Youtube videos too.
  • Translations: currently SMPlayer is translated into more than 30 languages, including Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese....
  • Possibility to change the style and icon set of the interface.
  • Free and opensource. SMPlayer is under the GPL license.

Fixes in this Release:
  • New option to select the fps for external subtitles.
  • YouTube is fixed again.
  • Now smplayer checks for updates automatically and notifies the user if a new version is found.
  • Support for encoding ISO-8859-16 for subtitles.
  • New translations: Thai and Hebrew.
  • The video equalizer dialog has been rewritten.
  • Some bugfixes.

To install SMPlayer in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
Source: Smplayer
Install Xnoise 0.2.13 lightweight Media Player in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/11.10 Oneiric/Linux Mint 13/12

Xnoise, a lightweight music player with minimal interface has been updated bringing in many new features and fixes. Xnoise is written in Vala and supports video playback making it one stop media application. Xnoise is a media player for GTK+ with a slick GUI, great speed and lots of features.

xnoise
Features:
  • Fast searchable media library
  • Music and Video support
  • 'Smart playlists' for last played and most played tracks
  • ID3 tag editing
  • Automatic album art fetching
  • 'Now playing' pane
  • State restore
  • Can play any GStreamer media
  • Media key support
  • Lightweight and speedy
  • Plugins for UbuntuOne Music Store, MPRIS, LastFm (album art and scrobbling), Lyrics fetching, Notifications, Ubuntu Soundmenu, and so on.
  • And more!
What's new in this Release:
  • Add new Album Art view with search
  • New Xnoise Icon (icon by Reda Lazri)
  • Recreated 'Now Playing' image rendering with reflections
  • Add weblink to keyboard shortcuts in help menu
  • Add Ctr-B keybinding for toggling album art view
  • Use symbolic icon in volume slider
  • Implement MPRIS 2 seek
  • Mingw compatibility fixes
  • Enable support for more media types
  • Update translations
  • Bug fixes

To Install Xnoise Media Player in Ubuntu/Linux Mint Open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
For other distro's check out site of Xnoise.
Enjoy
Install Xnoise 0.2.13 lightweight Media Player in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/11.10 Oneiric/Linux Mint 13/12

Xnoise, a lightweight music player with minimal interface has been updated bringing in many new features and fixes. Xnoise is written in Vala and supports video playback making it one stop media application. Xnoise is a media player for GTK+ with a slick GUI, great speed and lots of features.
xnoise
Features:
  • Fast searchable media library
  • Music and Video support
  • 'Smart playlists' for last played and most played tracks
  • ID3 tag editing
  • Automatic album art fetching
  • 'Now playing' pane
  • State restore
  • Can play any GStreamer media
  • Media key support
  • Lightweight and speedy
  • Plugins for UbuntuOne Music Store, MPRIS, LastFm (album art and scrobbling), Lyrics fetching, Notifications, Ubuntu Soundmenu, and so on.
  • And more!
What's new in this Release:
  • Add new Album Art view with search
  • New Xnoise Icon (icon by Reda Lazri)
  • Recreated 'Now Playing' image rendering with reflections
  • Add weblink to keyboard shortcuts in help menu
  • Add Ctrl-B key-binding for toggling album art view
  • Use symbolic icon in volume slider
  • Implement MPRIS 2 seek
  • Mingw compatibility fixes
  • Enable support for more media types
  • Update translations
  • Bug fixes

To Install Xnoise Media Player in Ubuntu/Linux Mint Open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

For other distro's check out site of Xnoise.
Enjoy