{"id":5777,"date":"2016-04-04T15:46:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T15:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=5777"},"modified":"2016-04-04T15:46:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T15:46:51","slug":"rhythmbox-3-3-1-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2016\/04\/rhythmbox-3-3-1-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhythmbox 3.3.1 Released, Ported to WebKit2, Better Handle Locked Android Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/rhythmbox_icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/rhythmbox_icon.png\" alt=\"Rhythmbox music player\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5778\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rhythmbox, Gnome&#8217;s default music player, has reached the 3.3.1 release with a few improvements, bug fixes, and translation updates.<\/p>\n<p>According to the changelog, Rhythmbox 3.3.1 features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Better handling of locked Android devices<\/li>\n<li>Simplified ReplayGain processing that might crash less<\/li>\n<li>Switched to webkit2 API, except for the context plugin which is disabled<\/li>\n<li>Notifications behave better when actions aren&#8217;t available<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And a few reported bugs has been solved in this release:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rhythmbox segfaults when trying to access Android 4.0 MTP device already mounted by Nautilus<\/li>\n<li>Rhythmbox crashes when trying to access Android device.<\/li>\n<li>Port to WebKit2<\/li>\n<li>CD playing with cross fading on crashes rhythmbox<\/li>\n<li>Display notifications about playing song when pausing<\/li>\n<li>RhythmDB-CRITICAL **: rhythmdb_entry_get_entry_type: assertion &#8216;entry != NULL&#8217; failed<\/li>\n<li>Gtk-WARNING **: Drawing a gadget with negative dimensions. Did you forget to allocate a size? (node grid owner RBHeader)<\/li>\n<li>Rework logic of Python support option<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>How to Install\/upgrade Rhythmbox 3.3.1 in Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Besides building from the source, fossfreedom is maintaining a PPA to make it easy to install the latest Rhythmbox music player for all current Ubuntu releases. <\/p>\n<div class=\"arconix-box arconix-box-yellow\"><i class='fa fa-2x pull-left fa-lightbulb-o'><\/i><div class=\"arconix-box-content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~fossfreedom\/+archive\/ubuntu\/rhythmbox\" target=\"_blank\">Check out the PPA page<\/a> before doing following steps since there may be a small delay for the latest packages to be made into PPA.<\/div><\/div>\n<p>1. Launch terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run below command to add PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fossfreedom\/rhythmbox<\/pre>\n<p>Type in your password <i>(no visual feedback just type in mind)<\/i> when it asks and hit Enter to continue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rhythmbox-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rhythmbox-ppa.jpg\" alt=\"Add rhythmbox PPA\" width=\"580\" height=\"194\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rhythmbox-ppa.jpg 580w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rhythmbox-ppa-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. After that, launch <b>Software Updater<\/b> and install updates for Rhythmbox, or just run below commands one by one in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install rhythmbox<\/pre>\n<p>3. (Optional) To downgrade to the stock version of Rhythmbox in your Ubuntu release, use ppa-purge:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install ppa-purge\n\nsudo ppa-purge ppa:fossfreedom\/rhythmbox<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhythmbox, Gnome&#8217;s default music player, has reached the 3.3.1 release with a few improvements, bug fixes, and translation updates. 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