Control Music Players from Panel (Ubuntu)

Music Applet is a great program with which you can control your music player right from the panel. Music Applet shows notifications when new song starts, places useful controls on the panel like, Previous track, Next track, Play/Pause, Rating etc. And it is highly configurable. Many music players are supported by Music Applet, like Rhythmbox, Audacious, Banshee, vlc and others.

You can install Music Applet from Synaptic Package Manager or any other package manager you have on your system. The package is named music-applet. Search for it.

After you have installed it, you can add it to a panel by right-clicking on the panel and selecting "Add to Panel..."