On the right, the lyrics of the music is being displayed. Once you have installed Clementine, you can start Clementine from the Application Menu of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.Īs you can see, Clementine is playing a music. To confirm the installation, press Y and then press.

You can install Clementine with the following command: of the music you’re playing automatically. Clementine can also download the lyrics, album cover, artist information etc. It is like Rhythmbox, but it has a better user interface and more features. If you don’t like Rhythmbox, the default music player of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, you can try Clementine. VLC is playing Sintel – the movie.mp4 file as you can see in the screenshot below. This way, VLC will automatically download information about the media file being played (i.e. Select VLC media player from the list and click on Select.Īs you’re running VLC media player for the first time, you will see the following window.Ĭheck Allow metadata network access and click on Continue. Now, to play a media file with VLC, right click (mouse) on the file and click on Open With Other Application. You can install VLC media player with the following command:Īll the required packages are being downloaded from the internet.

I personally like VLC media player a lot. There is a saying that if VLC can’t play a media file, no other player can. It can play almost any type of media files. VLC media player is one of the best video and audio player out there. You can install VLC media player on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Once the multimedia codecs are installed, you should be able to play any video/audio file on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS as you can see in the screenshot below. Īt this point, all the multimedia codecs should be installed. NOTE: If you don’t want to install Microsoft fonts, don’t accept the Microsoft EULA. Now, select and press to accept the Microsoft EULA. You have to accept the EULA (End User License Agreement) of Microsoft if you want to install Microsoft fonts on Ubuntu 20.04. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will install Microsoft fonts along with the multimedia codecs. Ubuntu should download all the required packages from the internet.

Now, to confirm the installation, press Y and then press. $ sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras

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