Use Gnome-Do To Control Rhythmbox, Banshee, Exaile and XMMS2

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for this link. ]

"Why use Gnome-Do to Control your music player? GNOME Do allows you to quickly search for many items present on your desktop or the web, and perform useful actions on those items. Gnome Do also comes with numerous plugins which includes a plugin to control Rhythmbox, Banshee, one for Exaile and one for XMMS2. Using these plugins you can press Ctrl + Space on your keyboard and then for instance type in an artist name, song name or album, then use the "Tab" button to either play or queue the selected track(s) or albums, increase or decrease the sound level and so on, and you get to do all this without going to your music player GUI, but within Gnome Do.

"Installing Gnome Do
If you already have Gnome Do installed, skip this step.

"I am only going to tell you how to install it in Ubuntu, for other distros, follow the instractions on the Gnome Do website.

"To install Gnome Do in Ubuntu, open a terminal and paste the following command to add the Gnome DO PPA repository:"

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