{"id":4424,"date":"2014-12-23T14:01:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T14:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4424"},"modified":"2014-12-23T14:01:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T14:01:38","slug":"tomahawk-0-8-available-ubuntu-12-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/12\/tomahawk-0-8-available-ubuntu-12-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Tomahawk Player 0.8.x Available for Ubuntu 12.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tomohawk-social-media-player-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tomohawk-social-media-player-icon.png\" alt=\"Tomahawk Music Player\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tomohawk-social-media-player-icon.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tomohawk-social-media-player-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The PPA repository for Tomahawk Music Player finally made the <b>latest 0.8.x release available for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise<\/b>. Now the PPA provides the latest packages for Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and derivatives.<\/p>\n<p>For those who have never heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tomahawk_(software)\" target=\"_blank\">Tomahawk<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tomahawk-music-player_08.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tomahawk-music-player_08-1024x593.jpg\" alt=\"Tomahawk Music Player 0.8 in Ubuntu\" width=\"610\" height=\"353\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tomahawk-music-player_08-1024x593.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tomahawk-music-player_08-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tomahawk-music-player_08.jpg 1261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomahawk 0.8 was released a month ago with redesigned UI and new music services support and various fixes. Here&#8217;s the release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New UI and Icons<\/li>\n<li>Drag and drop support for iTunes, Deezer, Beats Music, Rdio, Spotify, SoundCloud links (into Tomahawk) for playlists\/tracks\/artists\/album links.<\/li>\n<li>Added Google Play Music and Beats Music support.<\/li>\n<li>Now Playing notifications<\/li>\n<li>Support rtmp:\/\/ streams.<\/li>\n<li>Add support for Opus codec (requires TagLib 1.9). Ubuntu 12.04 is not supported because it&#8217;s built with Taglib 1.8<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more details, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tomahawk-player\/tomahawk\/releases\" title=\"Tomahawk release page\" target=\"_blank\">github page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Install Latest Tomahawk in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>First open terminal from the Dash or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run the command below to add <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~tomahawk\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ppa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tomahawk PPA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tomahawk\/ppa<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/add-tomahawk-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/add-tomahawk-ppa.jpg\" alt=\"Tomahawk PPA\" width=\"600\" height=\"278\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/add-tomahawk-ppa.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/add-tomahawk-ppa-300x139.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Type in your password when it asks and hit Enter to continue.<\/p>\n<p>After that, you can upgrade your music player through <i>Software Updater<\/i> after checking for updates. Or install it by running below commands one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install tomahawk<\/pre>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&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":[600,17],"class_list":["post-4424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-tomahawk","tag-ubuntu-12-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424","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=4424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}