{"id":6148,"date":"2016-08-20T02:11:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T02:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=6148"},"modified":"2016-09-04T16:11:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T16:11:41","slug":"install-rhythmbox-3-4-ubuntu-gnome-16-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2016\/08\/install-rhythmbox-3-4-ubuntu-gnome-16-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Rhythmbox 3.4 in Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 via PPA"},"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>Gnome&#8217;s default music player, Rhythmbox, has reached the 3.4 release. It has been made into the universe repository (to be default) for Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/GNOME\/rhythmbox\/releases\" target=\"_blank\">Rhythmbox 3.4<\/a> comes with a <b>new remote web control<\/b> plugin, allows users to control the basic music playback remotely via a web browser.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes in Rhythmbox 3.4:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grilo plugin now uses Grilo 0.3<\/li>\n<li>Soundcloud plugin fetches more search results and allows pausing<\/li>\n<li>No longer uses webkit (partly due to OpenBSD W^X enforcement)<\/li>\n<li>Slightly better handling of keyboard shortcuts for playback<\/li>\n<li>Core and some plugin data files compiled into binaries using GResources<\/li>\n<li>Memory leak and plugin fixes, translation updates, etc.<\/li>\n<li>See more in <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/GNOME\/rhythmbox\/blob\/master\/NEWS\" target=\"_blank\">NEWS page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rhythmbox3-4.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rhythmbox3-4-450x278.jpg\" alt=\"Rhythmbox 3.4\" width=\"450\" height=\"278\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rhythmbox3-4-450x278.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rhythmbox3-4-600x371.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rhythmbox3-4.jpg 1009w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/web-control.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/web-control-450x278.jpg\" alt=\"rhythmbox 3.4 web control plugin\" width=\"450\" height=\"278\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/web-control-450x278.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/web-control-600x371.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/web-control.jpg 1009w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Install Rhythmbox 3.4 in Ubuntu 16.04<\/h4>\n<p>Besides building the new release from source, you can install Rhythmbox 3.4 in Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 via a third-party PPA repository.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arconix-box arconix-box-red\"><i class='fa fa-2x pull-left fa-exclamation-triangle'><\/i><div class=\"arconix-box-content\">Tried both official Rhythmbox 3.4 build in Ubuntu 16.10 daily and the PPA backports in Ubuntu 16.04, there are a few issues found in my case:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No menu (global or title bar menu) in Unity Desktop<\/li>\n<li>new web control plugin does not work in my browser<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>If you intend to install Rhythmbox 3.4 via PPA, follow below steps:<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fossfreedom\/rhythmbox<\/pre>\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><b>2.<\/b> Update package index and install the 3.4 packages:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update; sudo apt install rhythmbox rhythmbox-plugins<\/pre>\n<p><del>DO NOT use <code>apt upgrade<\/code>, because the PPA also contains GTK 3.20 backports you may not want.<\/del><\/p>\n<p><del><b>3.<\/b> Remove the PPA after installation, via either <b>Software &#038; Updates -> Other Software<\/b> or the command below:<\/del><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\"><del>sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:vascofalves\/gnome-backports && sudo apt update<\/del><\/pre>\n<p><b>4.<\/b> (Optional) To revert back to Rhythmbox 3.3, purge the PPA via ppa-purge<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:fossfreedom\/rhythmbox<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gnome&#8217;s default music player, Rhythmbox, has reached the 3.4 release. It has been made into the universe repository (to be default) for Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety. Rhythmbox 3.4 comes with a new remote web control plugin, allows users to control the basic music playback remotely via a web browser. Other changes in Rhythmbox 3.4: Grilo plugin [&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":[684,1369],"class_list":["post-6148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-rhythmbox","tag-rhythmbox-remote-control"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6148","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=6148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}