qmmp (for ''Qt-based MultiMedia Player'') is a free and open-source

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audio player that is similar to

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. It is written in

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using the Qt widget toolkit for the user interface. It officially supports the operating systems

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, FreeBSD and Microsoft Windows. In most popular Linux distributions, it is available through the standard package repositories. Until Audacious switched to Qt in version 4.0, QMMP was the only audio player to use Qt and not feature a database.

Features

qmmp is known for its small, themeable user interface and low use of system resources. The user interface and behaviour is very similar to the at its time very popular Winamp. By supporting Winamp (Classic) skin files it can easily be configured to look exactly the same as Winamp 2.x. It is also catering for more discerning or audiophile listeners with support for cue sheets and volume normalization according to the

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standard. Album cover art is supported using separate

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s or embedded in ID3v2 tags and can be automatically fetched if missing. * A simple, intuitive user interface * Ogg

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, FLAC and

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music playback support * Support for multiple artist and performer tags per song * A

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icon * Plugin support * Translations into many languages * Equalizer

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External links

* {{Media player (application software), free Free audio software Linux media players Free media players Free software programmed in C++ Audio software that uses Qt

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