Tomahawk For Linux

Tomahawk is a multiplatform, full featured, easy to install, easy to use, open source and freely distributed software project implemented in C++ and designed from the offset as a sophisticated and modern music player that acts as a storage for all of your audio streams, radio channels, cloud music, playlists, and locally downloaded music files. In other words, it’s a social music player that provides quick access to all your favorite music wherever you are.

First of all, you should mention that the application can connection to a wide variety of music streaming services, including Spotify, Last.fm, Beats Music, Google Play Music, SoundCloud, Hype Machine, The Echo Nest, Official.fm, This Is My Jam, Rdio, Grooveshark, Billboard, ownCloud, iTunes, Jamendo, Metacritic, Deezer, Beets, Ampache, Subsonic and Hatchet.

It is also very important to mention here that Tomahawk allows you to stay in touch with all of your friends by connecting itself to the Google Talk, Twitter and Jabber IM (Instant Messaging) protocols. It lets you to listen to your local music collection and connects to a LAN (Local Area Network) collection. All these functionality is based on plugins, so you can always write your own and add support for a different music service or streaming protocol.

Key features include interoperability, aggregation and discovery. This means that the application supports browsing and playback of music libraries, stations and playlists. It supports custom stations, a function that works very similar to the Genius feature of the iTunes media player developed by Apple, only smarter and continuous.

Tomahawk can import playlists from anywhere (the Web, other media players, etc.), discovers new music as you listen to your favorite tracks, and lets you to share your favorite songs and artists with friends and family.

The application is available for download as pre-built binary packages for various distributions of Linux, including Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Fedora, Chakra, openSUSE, Gentoo and Linux Mint, as well as for the Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Android operating systems.

A source tarball (tar archive) is also available for download for users who want to optimize and compile the application themselves for a specific operating system or hardware architecture (both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are supported at this time).