Headphones is an application that helps you download music by automating the process of finding and downloading your favorite tracks, albums, and artists. If you are a music lover and want to learn how to install Headphones on your Elementary OS system, this tutorial will give you a step-by-step guide.
Before we begin, you will need to have the following:
Before installing Headphones, you need to have Git installed on your Elementary OS. To install Git, open your terminal and type the following command:
sudo apt-get install git
Headphones is written in Python, so you need to install it on your system. To install Python, open your terminal and enter the following command:
sudo apt-get install python
To download Headphones on your Elementary OS, navigate to the website https://github.com/rembo10/headphones. Then, clone the Headphones repository to your system by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/rembo10/headphones.git
Headphones requires some dependencies that we need to install before we can use it. To install the dependencies, navigate to the Headphones directory using the following command:
cd headphones
Once you are in the Headphones directory, install the dependencies by running the following command:
sudo apt-get install python-dev libssl-dev libffi-dev
Now that you have installed all the dependencies, you can start Headphones by running the following command:
python Headphones.py
Headphones will start running, and you will see a message like the following:
INFO :: Headphones started and available at http://localhost:8181
You can now open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8181 to access the Headphones web interface.
When you open the Headphones web interface, it will prompt you to do an initial configuration. You can follow the on-screen instructions to set up Headphones according to your preferences.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and set up Headphones on your Elementary OS system. You can now start downloading your favorite music tracks, albums, and artists using Headphones.
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