{"id":4632,"date":"2015-02-25T14:29:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T14:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4632"},"modified":"2015-02-25T14:29:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T14:29:46","slug":"install-music-app-ubuntu-15-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/install-music-app-ubuntu-15-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Ubuntu Touch&#8217;s Music App 2.0 in Ubuntu 15.04\/14.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ubuntu-touch-music-app.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ubuntu-touch-music-app.png\" alt=\"Ubuntu Touch Music App 2.0\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ubuntu-touch-music-app.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ubuntu-touch-music-app-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those who are running Ubuntu 14.10 or Ubuntu 15.04, here&#8217;s how to easily install a desktop preview of the Music App 2.0 which will be installed on Ubuntu Touch devices.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried this Music App a few days ago in Ubuntu 14.10, but got &#8216;std::runtime_error&#8217; similar error although <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/music-app\/+bug\/1415318\" title=\"mediascanner2 bug report in launchpad\" target=\"_blank\">the bug<\/a> has been marked as fixed. <\/p>\n<p>Now the player works in my laptop. Don&#8217;t know why, all I did is remove the <i>.cache\/mediascanner-2.0<\/i> folder under my Home folder and restart computer when I was first time trying the app. Here are the screenshots:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ubuntu-touch-music-app.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ubuntu-touch-music-app.jpg\" alt=\"Ubuntu Touch Music App main window\" width=\"600\" height=\"359\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ubuntu-touch-music-app.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ubuntu-touch-music-app-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ubuntu-touch-music-app-playing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ubuntu-touch-music-app-playing.jpg\" alt=\"Music App playing\" width=\"600\" height=\"348\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ubuntu-touch-music-app-playing.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ubuntu-touch-music-app-playing-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Install Music App via PPA in Ubuntu 15.04\/Ubuntu 14.10:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1. Open terminal from the Dash or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:vthompson\/ppa<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/add-musicapp-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/add-musicapp-ppa.jpg\" alt=\"Ubuntu Touch Music App PPA\" width=\"600\" height=\"282\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/add-musicapp-ppa.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/add-musicapp-ppa-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. After that, update package cache and install the Music App by running below two commands one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install music-app music-app-autopilot<\/pre>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t want to add PPA, grab the .deb packages directly from <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~vthompson\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ppa\/+packages\" target=\"_blank\">launchpad page<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who are running Ubuntu 14.10 or Ubuntu 15.04, here&#8217;s how to easily install a desktop preview of the Music App 2.0 which will be installed on Ubuntu Touch devices. I&#8217;ve tried this Music App a few days ago in Ubuntu 14.10, but got &#8216;std::runtime_error&#8217; similar error although the bug has been marked as [&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":[1238,1147],"class_list":["post-4632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-music-app","tag-ubuntu-touch"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632","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=4632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}