{"id":3642,"date":"2014-07-18T14:45:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T14:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3642"},"modified":"2015-01-16T15:40:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T15:40:33","slug":"install-pragha-ppa-ubuntu-1404","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/07\/install-pragha-ppa-ubuntu-1404\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Pragha Music Player via PPA in Ubuntu 14.04\/12.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pragha-music-player-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pragha-music-player-icon.png\" alt=\"Pragha Music Player Ubuntu PPA\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pragha-music-player-icon.png 240w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pragha-music-player-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pragha is a Lightweight Music Player for GNU\/Linux, based on Gtk, sqlite, and completely written in C, constructed to be fast, light, and simultaneously tries to be complete without obstructing the daily work.<\/p>\n<p><b>History of Pragha:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Consonance, An excellent player emerged in the archlinux forums, was discontinued. The author, Sacamano said in his blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Which doesn&#8217;t mean that it won&#8217;t be maintained. I would still be fixing bugs, but major feature additions are not in the pipeline, because I have completed all that I wanted to see in Consonance. It has been a fun project. :)&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well.. Dissonance is the project to continue developing Consonance, and its result is Pragha Music Manager. A New reproducer of music.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pragha-music-player-ubuntu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pragha-music-player-ubuntu-1024x534.jpg\" alt=\"Pragha Music Player in Ubuntu 14.04\" width=\"610\" height=\"318\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pragha-music-player-ubuntu-1024x534.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pragha-music-player-ubuntu-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pragha-music-player-ubuntu.jpg 1273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Full integration with GTK+3, but always completely independent of gnome or xfce.<\/li>\n<li>Two panel desing inspired on Amarok 1.4. Library and current playlist.<\/li>\n<li>Library with multiple views, according tags or folder structure.<\/li>\n<li>Search, filtering and queue songs on current playlist.<\/li>\n<li>Playing and edit tag of mp3, m4a, ogg, flac, asf, wma, and ape files. Limited only by codecs installed and taglib version used.<\/li>\n<li>Playlist management. Exporting M3U and read M3U, PLS, XSPF and WAX playlists.<\/li>\n<li>Play audio CDs and identifies this with CDDB.<\/li>\n<li>Playback control with command line and MPRIS2.<\/li>\n<li>Native desktop notifications with libnotify.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Install Pragha in Ubuntu via PPA:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Seems that there&#8217;s no apt repository for Ubuntu users to make it easy to install the player, so I built the latest v1.2.2 into <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntuhandbook1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/pragha\" target=\"_blank\">my PPA<\/a>, available for Ubuntu 14.04, <del>Ubuntu 12.04<\/del>, Ubuntu 14.10 and their derivatives.<\/p>\n<p>Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the commands below one by one to add the PPA and install the player:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/pragha\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install pragha<\/pre>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> Remove Ubuntu 12.04 support due to broken packages in gstreamer PPA. Add Ubuntu 14.10 Support.<\/p>\n<p><del>If you&#8217;re running on Ubuntu 12.04, <b>add below PPA to get gstreamer 1.0<\/b> before running <i>sudo apt-get update &#038;&#038; sudo apt-get install pragha<\/i><\/del><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\"><del>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gstreamer-developers\/ppa<del><\/pre>\n<p><del>Sorry that the Ubuntu 12.04 build excludes <b>libglyr<\/b> (>= 1.0.1) which allows to get lyrics and artist bio over many internet services, and download missing album cover art from Last.fm. Please email me if you know how to build <b>libglyr<\/b> for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise.<\/del><\/p>\n<p>via: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/matiasdelellis\/pragha\" target=\"_blank\">Pragha on Github<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pragha is a Lightweight Music Player for GNU\/Linux, based on Gtk, sqlite, and completely written in C, constructed to be fast, light, and simultaneously tries to be complete without obstructing the daily work. History of Pragha: Consonance, An excellent player emerged in the archlinux forums, was discontinued. 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