Lollypop 0.8.17 released, GNOME music player on Linux Mint and Ubuntu Derivative System [PPA]

Lollypop 0.8.17 released, GNOME music player on Linux Mint and Ubuntu Derivative System [PPA]

Lollypop is a completely free and open source and freely distributed graphical application implemented in Python/GTK+ for the GNOME desktop environment, designed from the offset to act as a simple and intuitive music player software.

It provides:

• mp3/4, ogg and flac.
• Genre/Cover browsing
• Genre/Artist/Cover browsing
• Search
• Queue
• Party mode
• Replay gain
• Cover art downloader
• Context artist view

Changes in 0.8.17:

• Fix bugs introduced by 0.8.16
• Fix artist context view
• Fix previous track in shuffle
• Smooth switch between views
• Fix all artists view
• Fix compilations tracks titles

Depends on:

• gtk3
• intltool (make)
• itstool (make)
• python (make)
• python-cairo
• python-dbus
• python-gobject
• python-mutagen
• python-sqlite

How to Lollypop 0.8.17 Install on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnumdk/gnuppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install lollypop

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Note : Unity users need to disable overlay scrollbars (and report bug to Canonical): gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal

Ubuntu user need to install Gtk 3.12 and Adwaita icons 3.14 for better experience

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