{"id":511,"date":"2013-07-10T09:27:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T09:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=511"},"modified":"2024-05-20T08:15:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T08:15:41","slug":"install-nightingale-music-player-ubuntu-ppa-repository","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/install-nightingale-music-player-ubuntu-ppa-repository\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Nightingale Player on Ubuntu, Linux Mint via PPA Repository"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/nightingale-logo-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4210\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/nightingale-logo-icon.png\" alt=\"Nightingale in Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/nightingale-logo-icon.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/nightingale-logo-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 2024: Nightingale discontinued! Try Clementine Music Player which is available to install in App Center or Ubuntu Software.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In this tutorial I&#8217;ll show you how to install the Nightingale Music Player on Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10, 12.04 and Linux Mint 15, 14, 13 via ppa repository.<\/p>\n<p>As such, Nightingale&#8217;s engine is based on the Mozilla XULRunner with libraries such as the GStreamer media framework and libtag providing media tagging and playback support, amongst others. Since official support for Linux was dropped by Songbird in April, 2010, Linux-using members of the Songbird community diverged and created the project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Nightingale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-512\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Nightingale.jpg\" alt=\"nightingale main window\" width=\"560\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Nightingale.jpg 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Nightingale-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3240\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nightingale-smart-playlist.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3240\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3240\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nightingale-smart-playlist.png\" alt=\"Nightingale smart playlist\" width=\"590\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nightingale-smart-playlist.png 590w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nightingale-smart-playlist-300x118.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nightingale smart playlist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Notable features of Nightingale:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plugins compatible with Songbird (with one modification to the addon)<\/li>\n<li>Multi-platform compatibility with Windows XP, Vista, 7, Linux and Mac OS X v10.5 (x86, x86-64).<\/li>\n<li>Ability to play multiple audio formats, such as MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Apple Lossless and WMA<\/li>\n<li>Ability to play Apple FairPlay-encoded audio on Windows and Mac platforms via hooks into QuickTime (authorization takes place in iTunes)<\/li>\n<li>Ability to play Windows Media DRM audio on Windows platforms<\/li>\n<li>Media files stored on pages viewed in the browser show up as playable files in Nightingale<\/li>\n<li>MP3 file download<\/li>\n<li>Ability to subscribe to MP3 blogs as playlists<\/li>\n<li>Ability to build custom mixes<\/li>\n<li>Ability to scan the user&#8217;s computer for all audio files and add them to a local library<\/li>\n<li>A configurable and collapsible graphical user interface similar to iTunes, and mini-player mode<\/li>\n<li>Keyboard shortcuts and media keyboard support<\/li>\n<li>Last.fm integration via a plugin, complete with love\/hate buttons<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft MTP compatible device support<\/li>\n<li>Ability to edit and save metadata tags<\/li>\n<li>Gapless playback and ReplayGain<\/li>\n<li>Watch folders<\/li>\n<li>Media import and export (from and to iTunes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To install it, press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> to open terminal, then follow the below steps:<\/p>\n<p>1.) Copy and paste this command, then run in terminal to add the ppa repository:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nightingaleteam\/nightingale-release<\/pre>\n<p>2.) If you&#8217;ve already installed Synaptic Package Manager, open it and click <b>Reload<\/b> button. Search for and install the nightingale package:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/nightingale-synaptic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-514\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/nightingale-synaptic-300x114.jpg\" alt=\"nightingale-synaptic\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/nightingale-synaptic-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/nightingale-synaptic.jpg 749w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If not, run the below command instead:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install nightingale<\/pre>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> To uninstall the software, also use Synaptic Package Manager, or run following commands in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: None;\">sudo apt-get remove nightingale &amp;&amp; sudo apt-get autoremove<\/pre>\n<p>The PPA can be removed via <b>Software &amp; Updates<\/b> utility via Other Software tab.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE 2024: Nightingale discontinued! Try Clementine Music Player which is available to install in App Center or Ubuntu Software. In this tutorial I&#8217;ll show you how to install the Nightingale Music Player on Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10, 12.04 and Linux Mint 15, 14, 13 via ppa repository. As such, Nightingale&#8217;s engine is based on the Mozilla [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,9],"tags":[159,90,89,260,88],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-review","category-howtos","tag-install","tag-install-nightingale-linux-mint","tag-install-nightingale-ubuntu-13-04","tag-nightingale","tag-nightingale-ppa-repository"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","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=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}