Moosync is a free and open source music player for Windows, Linux and MacOS. Using Moosync, you can play local music files from your desktop and also from Spotify and Youtube. It comes with realtime lyrics, LastFM Scrobble, customizable theme engine, Moosync Extension API and more. It is written in JavaScript and released under GNU General Public License v3.0.
How to Install Moosync on Ubuntu Linux
Moosync is available as a portable AppImage, native deb, snap and flatpak packages. Download Moosync in .AppImage file format from the above Moosync Download link and save in your downloads folder. Now in your terminal app (ctrl+alt+t) run below command.
cd Downloads
sudo chmod +x ~ Moosync-5.0.1-linux-x86_64.AppImage
Here “Moosync-5.0.1-linux-x86_64.AppImage” is the downloaded file name. You can change above command based on your file name.
./Moosync-5.0.1-linux-x86_64.AppImage
Install Moosync via DEB:
It is also available in .deb package file. Download from the above Moosync download link in .deb package file and save it your Downloads folder. In the terminal run below command to install it. Here “Moosync-5.0.1-linux-amd64.deb” is the downloaded file name and “Downloads” is the path. Change below command based on your file and path.
sudo apt install ./Downloads/Moosync-5.0.1-linux-amd64.deb
Install Moosync via Snap:
In the terminal run below command
sudo snap install moosync
You can also uninstall Moosync snap using below command.
sudo snap remove moosync
Install Moosync via Flatpak:
Install Flatpak and Flathub first and restart your system. Now in the terminal run below Moosync flatpak install command.
flatpak install flathub app.moosync.moosync
Open Moosync using
flatpak run app.moosync.moosync
And uninstall it using
sudo flatpak uninstall app.moosync.moosync
That’s it
