{"id":3008,"date":"2014-02-13T08:13:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T08:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2019-03-21T16:38:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T16:38:28","slug":"display-song-widget-elementary-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/02\/display-song-widget-elementary-os\/","title":{"rendered":"Display The Playing Song As A Widget on Elementary OS Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Elementary_logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Elementary_logo.png\" alt=\"CoverGloobus in Elementary OS\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Elementary_logo.png 220w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Elementary_logo-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CoverGloobus is a simple application that displays the cover and the info of playing song on your desktop as a nice widget. <\/p>\n<p>If you have been using Ubuntu for years, you may have heard of CoverGloobus. The project was last updated 4 years ago, but it&#8217;s still working good on Ubuntu 12.04. I&#8217;ve tested it on Elementary OS Luna, here are the screenshots:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/covergloobus-eos2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/covergloobus-eos2.jpg\" alt=\"covergloobus eos \" width=\"462\" height=\"206\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/covergloobus-eos2.jpg 462w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/covergloobus-eos2-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/covergloobus-eos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/covergloobus-eos.jpg\" alt=\"covergloobus eos\" width=\"500\" height=\"290\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/covergloobus-eos.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/covergloobus-eos-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/covergloobus-eos1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/covergloobus-eos1.jpg\" alt=\"covergloobus eos\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/covergloobus-eos1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/covergloobus-eos1-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CoverGloobus downloads lyrics and covers from internet and supports the most popular music plays, including Amarok2, Audacious, Banshee, Deadbeef, Exaile, gmusicbrowser, MOC, MPD, Rhythmbox, VLC, Songbird, Totem, and more.<\/p>\n<p><b>Install:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Download and install the DEB:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~gloobus-dev\/+archive\/covergloobus\/+files\/covergloobus_1.7.3_i386.deb\">CoverGloobus 1.7.3 for 32 bit<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~gloobus-dev\/+archive\/covergloobus\/+files\/covergloobus_1.7.3_amd64.deb\">CoverGloobus 1.7.3 for 64 bit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once installed, open it from Application Menu and right click on the widget to configure the player, themes, etc.<\/p>\n<p>To make it work with Noise music player, download the below package, extract and paste the &#8220;Noise.py&#8221; &#038; &#8220;Noise.pyc&#8221; files to <b>\/usr\/share\/covergloobus\/players<\/b><\/p>\n<p><del>Noise_Player_Covergloobus.zip<\/del><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CoverGloobus is a simple application that displays the cover and the info of playing song on your desktop as a nice widget. If you have been using Ubuntu for years, you may have heard of CoverGloobus. The project was last updated 4 years ago, but it&#8217;s still working good on Ubuntu 12.04. I&#8217;ve tested it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1029,435],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-covergloobus","tag-elementary-os-luna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}