{"id":4448,"date":"2014-12-29T14:18:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T14:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4448"},"modified":"2015-12-02T13:53:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T13:53:01","slug":"lollypop-new-gnome-music-player-available-in-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/12\/lollypop-new-gnome-music-player-available-in-ppa\/","title":{"rendered":"Lollypop &#8211; A New GNOME Music Player Available in PPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lollypop-music-player-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lollypop-music-player-icon.png\" alt=\"Lollypop Gnome music playing application\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lollypop-music-player-icon.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lollypop-music-player-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lollypop is a new Gnome music playing application written in Python and Gtk3. It&#8217;s a free and open-source project hosted on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/gnumdk\/lollypop\/\" title=\"Lollypop project page\" target=\"_blank\">github<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The music player features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>mp3\/4, ogg and flac.<\/li>\n<li>Genre\/Cover browsing<\/li>\n<li>Genre\/Artist\/Cover browsing<\/li>\n<li>Search<\/li>\n<li>Main playlist (called queue in other apps)<\/li>\n<li>Party mode<\/li>\n<li>Replay gain<\/li>\n<li>Cover art downloader<\/li>\n<li>Context artist view<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The screenshots:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lollypop-in-gnome.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lollypop-in-gnome-1024x627.jpg\" alt=\"Lollypop in Gnome\" width=\"610\" height=\"373\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lollypop-in-gnome-1024x627.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lollypop-in-gnome-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lollypop-in-gnome.jpg 1502w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lollypop-gnome-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lollypop-gnome-2-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"Lollypop in Gnome\" width=\"610\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lollypop-gnome-2-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lollypop-gnome-2-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lollypop-gnome-2.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lollypop-unity.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lollypop-unity-1024x666.jpg\" alt=\"Lollypop in Unity\" width=\"610\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lollypop-unity-1024x666.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lollypop-unity-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lollypop-unity.jpg 1143w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>How to Install Lollypop Music Player in Ubuntu:<\/h5>\n<p>The developer has built the latest packages into <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~gnumdk\/+archive\/ubuntu\/gnuppa\" title=\"Lollypop PPA\" target=\"_blank\">his PPA<\/a>, available for Ubuntu 14.04 <i>(tested in Ubuntu 14.04 but it doesn&#8217;t work)<\/i>, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 15.04 and derivatives. <\/p>\n<p>1. To add the PPA, open terminal from the Dash or by pressing <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard. When it opens, run the command below:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnumdk\/lollypop<\/pre>\n<p>Type in your user password when it asks and hit Enter to continue.<\/p>\n<p>2. After added the PPA, run command to reload system package cache:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update<\/pre>\n<p>3. Finally install the player from Synaptic Package Manager, or by running below command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install lollypop<\/pre>\n<p>4. [Fixed in Ubuntu 15.10 and higher] Due to an Ubuntu related bug, you have to disable the overlay scrollbars for better experience. <\/p>\n<p>To do this for this single application, run command to edit the <b>.desktop<\/b> file:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">gksudo gedit \/usr\/share\/applications\/lollypop.desktop<\/pre>\n<p>Add a parameter so that the &#8216;Exec&#8217; line will be:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">Exec=env LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 lollypop<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/disable-overlay-scrollbars-for-special-app.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/disable-overlay-scrollbars-for-special-app-1024x529.jpg\" alt=\"disable overlay scrollbars for single application\" width=\"610\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/disable-overlay-scrollbars-for-special-app-1024x529.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/disable-overlay-scrollbars-for-special-app-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/disable-overlay-scrollbars-for-special-app.jpg 1162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Save the file and done.<\/p>\n<p><b>(Optional)<\/b> To remove the player as well as the PPA repository, run below command in a terminal window:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:gnumdk\/lollypop && sudo apt-get remove lollypop<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lollypop is a new Gnome music playing application written in Python and Gtk3. It&#8217;s a free and open-source project hosted on github. The music player features: mp3\/4, ogg and flac. Genre\/Cover browsing Genre\/Artist\/Cover browsing Search Main playlist (called queue in other apps) Party mode Replay gain Cover art downloader Context artist view The screenshots: How [&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":[1199],"class_list":["post-4448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-gnome-music-player"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448","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=4448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}