The 3.2 release of Rhythmbox, Ubuntu’s default music player, was announced just a few hours ago with some new features, bug fixes and translation updates.

According the the changelog, Rhythmbox 3.2 brings a Soundcloud plugin, support for disc and track total tags, ability to clear, re-fetch and manually set cover art using the song info window.

There are also some bugs has been fixed in the new release:

• same songs played after reading a playlist
• no easy way to unselect the browse by album,artist,genre option
• Unclear string “in” for translation
• rhythmbox skips one or two songs after playing certain songs
• configure warning: ‘INCLUDES’ is the old name for ‘AM_CPPFLAGS’ (or ‘*_CPPFLAGS’)
• Add track count and disc count to the database
• data: Add Vorbis aliases as supported mime-types
• Failure to build with tdb 1.3
• Crash when right clicking the track list in the library
• Rhythmbox fails to import MP3 files with ID3 v2.4 tags created by PicardQT
• Tracks with no embedded covert art show a random cover art from the music collection
• Right click on any file in ‘Tracks list’ clashes the application
• Duplicate symbol _rb_metadata_iface_xml
• gdkx.h explicitly included; prevents building on Mac
• symbolic icon is broken

How to upgrade to Rhythmbox 3.2 in Ubuntu:

The new release is available in fossfreedom’s PPA, available for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 15.04, and Linux Mint 17.

1. First open terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run below command to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:fossfreedom/rhythmbox

2. After adding the PPA, launch Software Updater (or Update Manager) and install available updates for Rhythmbox after checking for updates.