{"id":7131,"date":"2017-09-11T14:31:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T14:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7131"},"modified":"2017-09-11T14:31:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T14:31:35","slug":"pandora-radio-client-pithos-1-4-0-released-ubuntu-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/09\/pandora-radio-client-pithos-1-4-0-released-ubuntu-ppa\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandora Radio Client &#8216;Pithos&#8217; 1.4.0 Released [Ubuntu PPA]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pithos-icon245.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7132\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pithos, an open-source Pandora radio client, has reached the 1.4.0 release with new plugins support, performance improvements and more.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pithos is a native Pandora Radio client for Linux. It&#8217;s much more lightweight than the Pandora.com web client, and integrates with desktop features such as media keys, notifications, and the sound menu.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/pithos\/pithos\" target=\"_blank\">Pithos<\/a> 1.4.0 release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add new plugin that inhibits screensaver\/suspend during playback<\/li>\n<li>Add new plugin adding a 10-band equalizer<\/li>\n<li>Add new plugin that automatically normalizes volume between tracks<\/li>\n<li>Add help entry (F1) that opens the wiki<\/li>\n<li>Replace build system with Meson<\/li>\n<li>Automatically detect if the user has Pandora One<\/li>\n<li>Improve saving and restoring window position<\/li>\n<li>Improve plugin loading performance and error reporting<\/li>\n<li>Notification Icon: Improve detecting if a tray is available<\/li>\n<li>Notification Icon: Add option to use symbolic icon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Pithos-Screenshot.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Pithos-Screenshot-450x376.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"376\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Pithos-Screenshot-450x376.png 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Pithos-Screenshot.png 526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Pithos in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The software has an <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~pithos\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ppa\" target=\"_blank\">official Ubuntu PPA<\/a> that contains Pithos deb packages for Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 17.04. <\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or from app launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pithos\/ppa<\/pre>\n<p><i>Input your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pithos-ppa-xenial-600x82.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"82\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pithos-ppa-xenial-600x82.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pithos-ppa-xenial-450x62.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pithos-ppa-xenial.jpg 743w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then check updates and install the Pandora radio client via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install --install-recommends pithos<\/pre>\n<p><i>Note that at the moment of writing, the PPA contains the last 1.3.1 release. It needs time for the developer building the software packages.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Uninstall Pithos:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To remove Pithos, run following command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove pithos<\/pre>\n<p>To remove the PPA repository, launch &#8220;Software &#038; Updates&#8221; utility and navigate to Other Software tab.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Pithos is also available as Gnome Platpak, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/pithos\/pithos\/wiki\/Flatpak\" target=\"_blank\">wiki<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pithos, an open-source Pandora radio client, has reached the 1.4.0 release with new plugins support, performance improvements and more. Pithos is a native Pandora Radio client for Linux. It&#8217;s much more lightweight than the Pandora.com web client, and integrates with desktop features such as media keys, notifications, and the sound menu. Pithos 1.4.0 release highlights: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1155,1497],"class_list":["post-7131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-pandora-radio-client","tag-pithos"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7131","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=7131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}