{"id":4156,"date":"2014-10-27T16:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2014-10-27T16:00:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T16:00:16","slug":"upgrade-to-rhythmbox-3-1-ubuntu-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/10\/upgrade-to-rhythmbox-3-1-ubuntu-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Upgrade to Rhythmbox 3.1 in Ubuntu 14.04 \/ 14.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rhythmbox-music-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rhythmbox-music-icon.png\" alt=\"Rhythmbox Music Player\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rhythmbox-music-icon.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rhythmbox-music-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Rhythmbox is the default music player for Ubuntu Unity and Gnome. It has reached version 3.1 while Ubuntu 14.04\/14.10 still provides Rhythmbox 3.0.x.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Rhythmbox 3.1 comes with assorted bug fixes, GTK 3.14+ compatible, and now it includes an AppData file. It&#8217;s worth upgrading the player if you have upgraded to Gnome 3.14 or ever encountered below bugs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Edit > Preferences > General > Visibile Columns > BPM&#8221; missing mnemonic<\/li>\n<li>UPNP servers do not get removed after they become unavailable<\/li>\n<li>SendTo plugin does not work with music files containing apostrophe<\/li>\n<li>Rhythmbox incorrectly reads the year tag of m4a files<\/li>\n<li>support libsecret 0.18 (SecretUnstable to Secret API change)<\/li>\n<li>rhythmbox crashes upon &#8220;Jump to Playing Song&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Song properties dialog &#8220;Basic&#8221; tab, &#8220;Comment&#8221; keyboard mnemonic is same as &#8220;Composer&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Notification disappears when I pause my music<\/li>\n<li>New Radio Paradise URLs<\/li>\n<li>The latest rhythmbox needs atleast libglib 2.34<\/li>\n<li>Wording used for importing music in import screen is not clear<\/li>\n<li>rhythmbox crashes with SIGSEGV due to double free in rb_podcast_parse_channel_free<\/li>\n<li>rhythmbox \/ audioscrobbler fails if built from separate build dir<\/li>\n<li>Inequal sizing and alignment in rhythmbox UI.<\/li>\n<li>grilo: Do not free GrlRegistry<\/li>\n<li>rhythmbox-client &#8211;stop<\/li>\n<li>Rhythmbox 3.0.2 crashes if attempting to load pls stream before any other type<\/li>\n<li>AAC tags are improperly parsed for the &#8220;year&#8221; field<\/li>\n<li>daap source compilation failure with ubuntu 14.04<\/li>\n<li>Rating stars are not vertically aligned in GtkTreeView listing<\/li>\n<li>Rhythmbox crash when adding songs to a playlist<\/li>\n<li>Right-clicking on song causes Segmentation fault<\/li>\n<li>song-info ui files need update<\/li>\n<li>rhythmbox.appdata.xml.in is in wrong location<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>How to Upgrade Rhythmbox:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to fossfreedom, the 3.1 release has been made into <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~fossfreedom\/+archive\/ubuntu\/rhythmbox\/\" target=\"_blank\">PPA<\/a>, available for Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and derivatives.<\/p>\n<p>To add the PPA, press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run the command below:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:fossfreedom\/rhythmbox<\/pre>\n<p>After that, launch <i>Software Updater<\/i> (or Synaptic Package Manager) and you&#8217;ll see Rhythmbox available for upgrade after checking for updates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/upgrade-rhythmbox.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/upgrade-rhythmbox.png\" alt=\"Upgrade Rhythmbox Music Player\" width=\"602\" height=\"471\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/upgrade-rhythmbox.png 602w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/upgrade-rhythmbox-300x234.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhythmbox is the default music player for Ubuntu Unity and Gnome. It has reached version 3.1 while Ubuntu 14.04\/14.10 still provides Rhythmbox 3.0.x. Rhythmbox 3.1 comes with assorted bug fixes, GTK 3.14+ compatible, and now it includes an AppData file. It&#8217;s worth upgrading the player if you have upgraded to Gnome 3.14 or ever encountered [&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":[684],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-rhythmbox"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156","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=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}