The PPA repository for Tomahawk Music Player finally made the latest 0.8.x release available for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise. Now the PPA provides the latest packages for Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and derivatives.
For those who have never heard of Tomahawk, it is a music player that not only plays your local collection, but also streams from SoundCloud, Beats, Spotify, Google Play Music, YouTube and many more. You can even connect Tomahawk with your friends via Jabber / GTalk and share your playlists and collections.
Tomahawk 0.8 was released a month ago with redesigned UI and new music services support and various fixes. Here’s the release highlights:
- New UI and Icons
- Drag and drop support for iTunes, Deezer, Beats Music, Rdio, Spotify, SoundCloud links (into Tomahawk) for playlists/tracks/artists/album links.
- Added Google Play Music and Beats Music support.
- Now Playing notifications
- Support rtmp:// streams.
- Add support for Opus codec (requires TagLib 1.9). Ubuntu 12.04 is not supported because it’s built with Taglib 1.8
For more details, see the github page.
Install Latest Tomahawk in Ubuntu:
First open terminal from the Dash or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run the command below to add Tomahawk PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tomahawk/ppa
Type in your password when it asks and hit Enter to continue.
After that, you can upgrade your music player through Software Updater after checking for updates. Or install it by running below commands one by one:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install tomahawk
That’s it. Enjoy!
How many songs is tomahawk able to import into the library at this point? Because i remember i really liked the Design and performance, but my library has more than
20 000 Songs and i think it crashed or just didnt import everything last time, which was kind of a problem :P