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Tip for Ubuntu 12.04- Add a new player to the sound menu

Written by M. Zinoune on May 1, 2012. Posted in Linux tutorials, Ubuntu

In Ubuntu12.04 Precise Pangolin, Rhythmbox is the default player in the sound menu, the sound menu support also some other audio players like Climentine for exp. In this Tip i will show you how to add some unsupported players to the sound menu, like for example VLC or Amarok. You can do that with just one command.

Remember that this will remove Rhythmbox from the soundmenu and will be replaced by the new player.

Now for example we want to add vlc, we open terminal and we enter the following command:

gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.sound interested-media-players "['vlc']"

If we want to add Amarok, we type:

gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.sound interested-media-players "['amarok']"

If we want to restore Rhythmbox we type

gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.sound blacklisted-media-players "['rhythmbox']"

That all.

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For restore Rhythmbox we should type the right name of rhythmbox:
gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.sound blacklisted-media-players “['Rhythmbox Music Player']“
Amir Marandi

What is the command to do it for Clementine?
Abdul Qoyyuum Haji Abdul Kadir

It didn’t work. I typed into the Terminal command -> gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.sound interested-media-players ‘['vlc']” <- and nothing happened. It's still the same rythmbox.
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