{"id":39356,"date":"2022-05-03T17:17:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T17:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=39356"},"modified":"2022-05-03T17:17:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T17:17:45","slug":"rhythmbox-music-player-got-an-update-2-years-after-the-last-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2022\/05\/rhythmbox-music-player-got-an-update-2-years-after-the-last-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhythmbox Music Player Got an Update 2 Years After the Last Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rhythmbox-logo.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rhythmbox-logo-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-39357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rhythmbox-logo-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rhythmbox-logo-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rhythmbox-logo-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rhythmbox-logo-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rhythmbox-logo.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu&#8217;s default Rhythmbox music player finally released a new version with podcast improvements, code cleanup, and various bug-fixes.<\/p>\n<p>It has been more than 2 years since the last release of Rhythmbox music player. The new <b>Rhythmbox 3.4.5<\/b> comes with improvements to the podcast support:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rewritten podcast downloader with better resume and retry<\/li>\n<li>Use podcast episode GUIDs to handle episode URL changes<\/li>\n<li>Fixes for feed description, album art, and downloading issue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The release also ported DAAP plugin to libdmapsharing-4.0 API, enabled UTF-8 support in metadata scanner. The app ID has been renamed to &#8220;org.gnome.Rhythmbox3&#8221;. And, it has now switched to Meson for its building system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rhythmbox-345.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rhythmbox-345-600x384.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-39358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rhythmbox-345-600x384.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rhythmbox-345-300x192.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rhythmbox-345-768x492.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rhythmbox-345.webp 943w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other changes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Remove soundcloud plugin, mmkeys plugin, and gnome-settings-daemon MediaKeys plugin<\/li>\n<li>Song info ui, webremote plugin, and many other fixes.<\/li>\n<li>And, translation updates. See <a href=\"https:\/\/gitlab.gnome.org\/GNOME\/rhythmbox\/-\/commit\/015ce7418d2bc6486f51f8fc0c21a4514fcbc50a\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How to Get Rhythmbox<\/h3>\n<p>Ubuntu usually won&#8217;t update the package for all current Ubuntu releases. So far, the only way to get Rhythmbox is using the Linux universal Flatpak package.<\/p>\n<p>1. Press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run the commands below to install the Flatpak daemon:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt install flatpak<\/pre>\n<p>Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 16.04 need to add the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~flatpak\/+archive\/ubuntu\/stable\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flatpak PPA<\/a> first.<\/p>\n<p>2. Next, all current Ubuntu releases may install the player by running the command below in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre>flatpak install https:\/\/dl.flathub.org\/repo\/appstream\/org.gnome.Rhythmbox3.flatpakref<\/pre>\n<p>To avoid duplicated app icons, you may remove the system default package via <code>sudo apt remove rhythmbox<\/code><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/flatpak-rhythmbox-600x407.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-39359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/flatpak-rhythmbox-600x407.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/flatpak-rhythmbox-300x203.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/flatpak-rhythmbox-768x521.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/flatpak-rhythmbox.webp 786w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Uninstall Rhythmbox flatpak<\/h3>\n<p>For any reason, you can remove the package easily by running the command below in terminal window:<\/p>\n<pre>flatpak uninstall org.gnome.Rhythmbox3<\/pre>\n<p>And cleanup unused runtimes via <code>flatpak uninstall --unused<\/code>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu&#8217;s default Rhythmbox music player finally released a new version with podcast improvements, code cleanup, and various bug-fixes. 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