Install BeatBox 0.6 in Ubuntu/Linux Mint (New Release)

Install BeatBox Player in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 13

BeatBox is a Audio player for the linux operating system that is fast, simple, and beautiful. BeatBox is an easy to use, stable, fast and good looking music library organizer written in vala.

Features include:

• Sound Menu support
• Two Views – Album art and ‘list’
• CD Playback
• iPod Syncing
• Auto-fetching of missing album art
• Album art renderer in ‘List View’
• Scrobble support
• Equaliser

Release Notes 0.6, Some of the new noticeable features are:

• Shuffle is no longer visual.
• New top display UI.
• Closing while playing hides the window, and a new exit app menu option allows you to force close the app.
• Can now be set as default music player
• Faster startup time
• Option to eject devices from sidebar
• Nicer album view popup
• Sidebar inline toolbar

To install BeatBox in Ubuntu 12.04/Mint 13 open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sgringwe/beatbox
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install beatbox

To add BeatBox in sound menu do following, Enter following command to install dconf-tools:

Terminal Command:
sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

Go to Dash open "Dconf-Editor" and see the following picture