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Install Airtime (Free radio automation software) in Ubuntu

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:34:04 +0000

Airtime is an open source radio automation software for scheduling and playout.

Airtime lets you take total control of your radio station via the web with intelligent archive management, powerful search, an easy playlist builder, a simple scheduling calendar and rock-solid automated playout.

Features include fades, cues, playlists, programme calendar, Icecast, Shoutcast and Soundcloud integration, DJ and station manager roles, JQuery widgets, Liquidsoap playout, and a record and rebroadcast functionality.

Powerful media archive features ‘watch’ folders to allow stations to magically synchronise files, auto-import files and has multiple directory support.

Airtime is free to download, runs on Ubuntu and Debian, and users can interact with it through any web browser. Airtime now comes with an ‘easy install’ package.

Web site: http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/airtime/

Features:

Programme Calendar with day, week and month views
User management – block out timeslots, restrict access
Support for cue in/out, fade in/out with sub-second precision
Remote management via the web
Watch folders
Daily, weekly, bi-weekly and monthly repeat settings
Record live shows and rebroadcast
Download option for easier sharing and editing
Stream to Icecast or SHOUTcast server, via mp3 or Ogg Vorbis
Automatically upload and share shows to SoundCloud
Works with almost any browser
Ubuntu and Debian packages
Easy installation
Drag and Drop playlists
Interoperability with Newscoop
Show-driven access management
Peer to peer sharing for radio station networking
Multi-file upload
Preview tracks and edit metadata in-browser

Install Airtime:

Web version: go to http://airtime-demo.sourcefabric.org/, login with user admin and password admin.

Desktop version: Download and install .deb of airtime-easy-setup. Then, update and install airtime via apt-get:

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install airtime

POGO- Probably the simplest and fastest Music player for Linux.

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:29:29 +0000

Pogo’s elementary-inspired design uses the screen-space very efficiently. It is especially well-suited for people who organize their music by albums on the harddrive. The main interface components are a directory tree and a playlist that groups albums in an innovative way.
Supported file formats include Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Musepack, Wavpack, and MPEG-4 AAC. Pogo is a fork of Decibel Audio Player.

Install POGO in Ubuntu:

Pogo stable daily builds ppa provides pacekages for Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 and higher. To install it run following commands in terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pogo-dev/daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pogo

Pogo in launchpad: launchpad.net/pogo

PPA Installing the latest Minitube (Youtube Client) in Ubuntu

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:21:40 +0000

Minitube is a native YouTube client. With it you can watch YouTube videos in a new way: you type a keyword, Minitube gives you an endless video stream.

Minitube does not require the Flash Player.

Minitube is not about cloning the original YouTube web interface, it aims to create a new TV-like experience.

Install Minitube in Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04:

Minitube is available in Ubuntu’s universe repository by default, but it’s old. The latest version is 1.7.

LffL Minitube ppa contains packages of the latest version of Minitube for Ubuntu 10.04 and higher. To install it, run:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/minitube
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install minitube

Install SMplayer 0.6.10 in Ubuntu using PPA

admin — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:22:11 +0000

SMplayer is a GUI front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more.

SMplayer released version 0.6.10 few days ago, with following changes:

New vdpau configuration dialog, which allow to select the vdpau codecs to use.
Port for OS/2 (by Silvan Scherrer).
New menu to select the closed caption channel (requires mplayer >= r32607).
Possibility to select the seeking method (absolute or relative).
Possibility to sort the items of the playlist.

Ubuntu hardy 8.04, jaunty 9.04, karmic 9.10, lucid 10.04, maverick 10.10, natty 11.04, oneiric 11.10, and precise 12.04 can install the latest SMplayer 0.6.10 from ppa:rvm/smplayer via following commands in a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rvm/smplayer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install smplayer

Windows .exe file: SMplayer Downloads page

Clementine 1.0 released with More Internet Radio & Global Search

admin — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:36:02 +0000

Clementine is a multiplatform music player based on Amarok 1.4, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music.

Version 1.0 was released on Dec 27. This release adds Spotify, Grooveshark and SKY.fm/Digitally Imported support. We’ve also added a Global Search feature that allows you to easily find music that’s either in your library or on the Internet. Other features include audio CD support, more transcoder options, an improved settings dialog, smarter album cover searches, and loads of bug fixes. See the full changelog for more information.

Now features of Clementine:

Features

Search and play your local music library.
Listen to internet radio from Spotify, Grooveshark, Last.fm, SomaFM, Magnatune, Jamendo, SKY.fm and Digitally Imported, and Icecast.
Create smart playlists and dynamic playlists.
Tabbed playlists, import and export M3U, XSPF, PLS and ASX.
CUE sheet support.
Play audio CDs.
Visualisations from projectM.
Lyrics and artist biographies and photos.
Transcode music into MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC.
Edit tags on MP3 and OGG files, organise your music.
Fetch missing tags from MusicBrainz.
Download missing album cover art from Last.fm.
Cross-platform – works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Native desktop notifications on Linux (libnotify) and Mac OS X (Growl).
Remote control using a Wii Remote, MPRIS or the command-line.
Copy music to your iPod, iPhone, MTP or mass-storage USB player.
Queue manager.

Install Clementine:

Windows .exe, and Linux .rpm, .deb packages are available on code.google.com/p/clementine-player/

Ubuntu Lucid, Maverick, Natty, Oneiric can also add and install Clementine from this ppa:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:me-davidsansome/clementine-dev
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install clementine

Install Spotify (QT Client) for Linux in Ubuntu

admin — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:17:09 +0000

Spotify on Linux now supports all Spotify accounts, offers 15 million tracks for free accounts.

Install Spotify desktop client in Ubuntu:

This is a preview build of Spotify for Linux. .deb packges for Ubuntu user are available from repository.spotify.com/pool/non-free/s/spotify/. Download appropriate one and double click to install via Ubuntu Software Center.

If you want add the spotify repository and keep it updated, open up a terminal window and do following steps:

# 1. Add this line to your list of repositories by editing your /etc/apt/sources.list

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free

# 2. If you want to verify the downloaded packages,
# you will need to add our public key
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 4E9CFF4E

# 3. Run apt-get update
sudo apt-get update

# 4. Install spotify!
sudo apt-get install spotify-client-qt

Opera 11.60 ‘Tunny’ Released (Ubuntu Installation Included)

admin — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:34:50 +0000

The web browser Opera 11.60, code name “Tunny” was just released today.

See what’s new in Opera 11.60: Opera 11.60 Release Note

Install or Upgrade to the latest version of Opera in Ubuntu:

If you’re running an old version of Opera web browser, note that first backup your browsing data and bookmarks.

There’re 3 ways installing latest stable version of Opera in Ubuntu:

Option 1:

Download source code of Opera from opera’s download page. Extract the package and follow the instructions in INSTALL or README file to install opera in your machine.

Option 2:

Install Opera via opera stable ppa

Open up a terminwl window, add the ppa by:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera.list'

Add the key:

sudo sh -c 'wget -O - http://deb.opera.com/archive.key | apt-key add -'

Now update the source and install Opera:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install opera

and install the recommended flash plugin:

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Option 3:

Directly download .deb package of the latest stable Opera from deb.opera.com and double-click to start installation.

Mumble – cross-platform Voice Chat program for Gaming

admin — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:22:55 +0000

Mumble is a free, low-latency, and high quality voice program for gaming. It features noise suppression, automatic gain control, and low latency audio with support for multiple audio standards. Mumble includes an in-game overlay compatible with most open-source and commercial 3D applications.

Please note that Mumble works with all games as a regular voice chat application.

There’s a list of games such as Age of Chivalry, CS 1.6, WOW, etc, for which Mumble provides positional sound support, so that the voice of your teammates comes from their direction in game. This feature can be enabled as follows:

Check “Advanced” in the Configure|Settings menu
Go to Plugins and check “Link to Game and Transmit Position”
In Audio Output check “Positional Audio”
If you use a headset or headphones then check “Headphones”

Install Mumble:

For Ubuntu, it is available in the universe repository. Search and install Mumble and mumble-server in Ubuntu Software Center.

For Windows, download the executable from sourceforge download page. Run the installer and it installs both the server and client.

For Mac, precompiled Mac OS X universal binaries are available from the sourceforge download page

HomePage of Mumble: mumble.sourceforge.net

Install YaCy The Peer-to-Peer search engine in Ubuntu

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:30:22 +0000

YaCy is a free p2p web search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of web pages. It is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal, the network does not store user search requests and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the shared index. We want to achieve freedom of information through a free, distributed web search which is powered by the world’s users.

Installation

YaCy is cross-platform software, source code for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS are available here.

For Ubuntu, download YaCy 1.0 for GNU/Linux

Once you get the source code, extract it and then run startYACY.sh to start YaCy. Finally in your web browser, locate to http://localhost:8090

Note that YaCy need java to be installed. Just search and install in Ubuntu Software Center.

GmailWatcher – Gmail notifier integrated into Ubuntu’s Messaging Menu

admin — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:04:53 +0000

Gmail Watcher is a gmail and google apps notifier that integrated into Ubuntu’s default messaging menu in top-panel. It supports multiple accounts and instant notifications.

Installation

The Gmail Watcher Dev ppa provides packages for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, 10.10 Maverick, 11.04 Natty, 11.10 Oneiric, and 12.04 Precise. Just run commands in terminal to install from this ppa:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:loneowais/gmailwatcher.dev
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gmailwatcher

After installation, you can find it in the messaging menu and then setup your gmail account. See the pics: