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https://github.com/keshavbhatt/olivia

Elegant music player for Linux Desktop
https://github.com/keshavbhatt/olivia

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![Olivia Banner Art](https://dashboard.snapcraft.io/site_media/appmedia/2019/03/banner_BPmKykd.png)



# Olivia - Elegant Music Player for Linux Desktop



by [@keshavbhatt](https://github.com/keshavbhatt) of [ktechpit.com](http://ktechpit.com) and [others](https://github.com/keshavbhatt/olivia/graphs/contributors)



**Olivia hits mark of 5000+ active users already** 



[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) [![Average time to resolve an issue](http://isitmaintained.com/badge/resolution/keshavbhatt/olivia.svg)](http://isitmaintained.com/project/keshavbhatt/olivia "Average time to resolve an issue") [![Percentage of issues still open](http://isitmaintained.com/badge/open/keshavbhatt/olivia.svg)](http://isitmaintained.com/project/keshavbhatt/olivia "Percentage of issues still open") 



**Stable and Nightly Build on any [snapd](https://docs.snapcraft.io/installing-snapd) enabled Linux Distribution can be installed using:**



[![olivia](https://snapcraft.io//olivia/badge.svg)](https://snapcraft.io/olivia) [![olivia](https://snapcraft.io//olivia/trending.svg?name=0)](https://snapcraft.io/olivia)



[![Get it from the Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/static/images/badges/en/snap-store-black.svg)](https://snapcraft.io/olivia)



    snap install olivia



**Arch Linux (using AUR):**



[Olivia Arch Linux User's Repository ](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/olivia)  



**Features**

-   Olivia helps you discover new music and videos like no other service do.

-   Smart Music recommendation, can get you songs related to any song.

-   Allows organise music and videos at one place.

-   Olivia can save track while you are streaming it, this saves your bandwidth.

-   Olivia never stops playing song for you with its smart playlist feature it automatically starts playing related songs for you once your playlist ends.

-   Watch or Download Video for any song in different audio video formats and quality.

-   Allows search YouTube and add result to library, sort results and all other YouTube features like browse channels.

-   Plays audio only of YouTube streams (saves data bandwidth).

-   Support themes , Dynamic theme based on album art.

-   Intelligent Music Search suggestions engine integrated.

-   Player Mini mode aminimal player widget with always on capability and allows set transparency and make it act like a desktop widget.

-   Switch to Smart mode and sit back, olivia will play songs for you automatically.

-   Internet radio, allows play more than 25k online radio stations, list them sort them according to most played , most voted, language wise, country wise and by tags .

-   Olivia lets you browse new music according to your location.

-   Olivia lets you discover music based on their genres, moods and more.

-   Its easy to discover new music - singles, albums etc easily at one place.

-   Top music chart, allows list top 100 songs country wise.

-   Top albums chart, allows list top 100 albums county wise.

-   Beautiful Client side Decoration.

-   Lyrics of playing songs and separate lyrics search.

-   Powerful audio equalizers and audio filters.

-   MPRIS protocol support.

-   Audio export with meta tags and album art.

-   More features like cloud synchronisation of your Liked Music is coming soon, so you will be able to get your music back no matter where you are.



**Consider Donating if you want this music player grow further**



[![Donate](https://img.shields.io/badge/Donate-PayPal-green.svg)](https://paypal.me/keshavnrj/5)



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**Olivia utilises power of the following tools and technologies :**

- Qt GUI Framework 5.5.1 

- Bash, wget, socat, tee and other utilities that comes with "coreutils" package

- MPV Player

- Youtube-dl

- LibTag

- C++11

- Python

- Lua

- PHP, HTML, CSS, JS, JSON 

- snapcraft.io/build for continuous build and delivery through snapcraft.io/store for all major Linux distributions supporting [snapd](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd)

- "Arch User Repository" for distribution of app to Arch Linux users.  



**Build requirement**



    Qt >=5.5.1 with these modules

        - libqt5sql5-sqlite

        - libqt5webkit5 (must)

        - libqt5x11extras5

        

    mpv >= 0.29.1

    coreutils >=8.25

    socat >=1.7.3.1-1

    python >=2.7

    wget >=1.17.1

    libtag1-dev

    

**Build instructions**

With all build requirements in place go to project root and execute:



Build:



    qmake (or qmake-qt5, depending on your distro)

    make

    

Execute :



    ./olivia

     

**Screenshots:** (can be old)

![Olivia](https://dashboard.snapcraft.io/site_media/appmedia/2019/03/olivia_linux_ubuntu_1.jpeg)

![Youtube plugin for Olivia on the play](https://dashboard.snapcraft.io/site_media/appmedia/2019/03/olivia_linux_ubuntu_2.jpeg)

![Olivia Playing Internet radio](https://dashboard.snapcraft.io/site_media/appmedia/2019/03/olivia_linux_ubuntu_3.jpeg)