Cantata, a Qt-based music player for MPD (Music Player Daemon), has reached version 1.3.0 just yesterday, and a fix for compiling it in KDE, 1.3.0.1, was put out a few moments ago. This release comes with 87 fixes and improvements. Some major changes and new features include:
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Overall, Cantata suffered major overhauls on all levels. The interface has suffered lots of fixes and improvements; communication with MPD was improved too; playlist and play queue handling also suffered fixes.
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Installing from the PPA
Open the terminal and type the following commands to install Cantata from the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/cantata sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install cantata
Installing from Source
Make seems to give the following error on Ubuntu 13.10 with Cantata 1.3.0 (this was fixed in Cantata 1.3.0.1):
lconvert: could not exec '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/qt4/bin/lconvert': No such file or directory make[2]: *** [translations] Error 1 make[1]: *** [po/CMakeFiles/translations.dir/all] Error 2 make: *** [all] Error 2
However, the binary is successfully built, available in the build directory and you can run Cantata as ./cantata.
Cantata 1.3.0.1 was released few moments ago with a fix for compiling it. Follow the next steps:
Download the source tarball from here and uncompress it:
tar -xjf cantata-1.3.0.1.tar.bz2
Next, install the dependencies:
You will need the source repositories enabled for this to work.
Finally, change the working directory to cantata-1.3.0.1 and type the commands:
mkdir build && cd build cmake .. make sudo make install
To install as normal user in a different prefix, use this:
mkdir build && cd build cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/usr make make install
Cantata offers a wealth of options, as well as Internet services like Jamendo and support for podcasts:
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