Headphones is a software designed to download music automatically from NZB and Torrent sites. It is an excellent tool for those who love to have a large music library. If you're an Arch Linux user, installing Headphones is quite simple. Follow the steps outlined below.
Before installing Headphones on Arch Linux, ensure that you have the following installed on your system.
Headphones uses Python 2.x.x, so you need to install it on your system. To do this, run the following command on your terminal.
sudo pacman -S python2
Headphones is hosted on Github, so Git is required to download it. You can install Git by running the following command in your terminal.
sudo pacman -S git
After installing Git, clone the Headphones repositor by running the following command.
git clone https://github.com/rembo10/headphones.git
This will download the Headphones source code to your system.
Headphones is packaged in Zip format, so you need to install Unzip to extract it. You can install Unzip by running the following command.
sudo pacman -S unzip
Extract the Headphones package by running the following command.
unzip headphones-master.zip
This will extract the Headphones package to a folder called headphones-master.
Headphones requires a configuration file to function correctly. You can generate a configuration file for Headphones by running the following command.
python2 headphones-master/Headphones.py -d
To start Headphones, navigate to the headphones-master directory and execute the following command on your terminal.
python2 Headphones.py
After executing the command, Headphones will start running on your system.
In conclusion, Headphones is an excellent tool for Linux users who love music. Installing it on Arch Linux is quite simple, as you can see from the steps outlined above.
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