{"id":4891,"date":"2015-04-20T15:33:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T15:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4891"},"modified":"2015-07-31T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T16:13:00","slug":"install-podcast-app-vocal-1-0-ubuntu-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/04\/install-podcast-app-vocal-1-0-ubuntu-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Podcast App &#8216;Vocal&#8217; 1.0 via PPA in Ubuntu 14.04\/15.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vocal-podcast-app-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vocal-podcast-app-icon.png\" alt=\"Vocal Podcast app \" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vocal-podcast-app-icon.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vocal-podcast-app-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>The first stable release of Vocal, a simple and beautiful podcast app for Linux desktop, was released a few days ago. Official installers for Ubuntu, Elementary OS, Fedora, openSUSE are available.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vocalproject.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vocal<\/a> is a beautiful and easy to use podcast app designed for elementary OS and other GTK-based Linux desktops. Since the 1.0 release, it features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Audio and video podcast support<\/li>\n<li>Built-in video playback<\/li>\n<li>Automatic checking for new episodes<\/li>\n<li>Episode position saving<\/li>\n<li>Streaming and downloading support (works offline)<\/li>\n<li>Smart library management<\/li>\n<li>Automatic downloads<\/li>\n<li>Full system integration<\/li>\n<li>Library importing and exporting<\/li>\n<li>and much more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Screenshots in eOS freya:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vocal-in-freya1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vocal-in-freya1-560.jpg\" alt=\"vocal-in-freya1-560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vocal-in-freya1-560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vocal-in-freya1-560-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vocal-in-freya2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vocal-in-freya2-560.jpg\" alt=\"vocal-in-freya2-560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vocal-in-freya2-560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vocal-in-freya2-560-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vocal-in-freya.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vocal-in-freya-560.jpg\" alt=\"vocal-in-freya-560\" width=\"560\" height=\"316\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vocal-in-freya-560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vocal-in-freya-560-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>How to Install Vocal:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>For Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Elementary OS Freya, and Linux Mint 17, you can install this podcast app either from <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~nathandyer\/+archive\/ubuntu\/vocal-stable\/\" target=\"_blank\">its official PPA<\/a> or by using the <b>.deb<\/b> binaries.<\/p>\n<p><b>To install Vocal from PPA and receive future updates<\/b>, open terminal from the Dash or App Menu, and run below commands one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nathandyer\/vocal-stable\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install vocal<\/pre>\n<p>To grab the <b>.deb<\/b> (or .rpm) package, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/vocalpodcast\/files\/\" target=\"_blank\">the sourceforge page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> For transparent background issue (but with Unity&#8217;s overlay scrollbar), run below command to edit its desktop file:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">gksudo gedit \/usr\/share\/applications\/vocal.desktop<\/pre>\n<p>and change the line <code>Exec=vocal<\/code> to <code>Exec=env LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 vocal<\/code> and finally save the file. This will disable overlay scrollbar for Vocal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vocal-overlayscrollbar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vocal-overlayscrollbar-450x243.jpg\" alt=\"vocal-overlayscrollbar\" width=\"450\" height=\"243\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vocal-overlayscrollbar-450x243.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vocal-overlayscrollbar-600x324.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vocal-overlayscrollbar.jpg 885w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first stable release of Vocal, a simple and beautiful podcast app for Linux desktop, was released a few days ago. Official installers for Ubuntu, Elementary OS, Fedora, openSUSE are available. Vocal is a beautiful and easy to use podcast app designed for elementary OS and other GTK-based Linux desktops. Since the 1.0 release, it [&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":[1266,1267],"class_list":["post-4891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-podcast-app","tag-vocal"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891","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=4891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}