Nuvola Player 2.5.0 released, install on Ubuntu 15.04/14.10/14.04/13.10/13.04 and Linux Mint 17.1/7

Nuvola Player 2.5.0 released, install on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/2.04, 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 via PPA

Nuvola Player is an open source graphical application designed to provide users with a simple interface for popular cloud music services, such as Google Play Music, Amazon Cloud Player, Deezer, Grooveshark, Rdio or Pandora.

Supports a wide range of music services

At the moment, it supports the Amazon Cloud Player, Deezer, 8tracks, Google Play Music, Pandora Radio, and Rdio services. It used to support the Grooveshark and Hype Machine services, which are no longer maintained.

Even if it’s not mentioned on the official website, Nuvola Player also supports the Bandcamp online music service and Logitech Media Server, which allows users to connect to Logitech Squeezebox devices.

What's New in version 2.5.0

New features:

• Users with Nuvola Patrons membership are not bothered by a donate bar if they log in with their Tiliado account in preferences.
• Added Grooveshark Mobile (HTML5) service integration by Chase Colman chase@colman.io. (Closes: LP:1175088)
• Added integration of Spotify by Chase Colman. (Closes: LP:1079648 )
• Added Jango integration by Stefano Bagnatica. (Closes: LP:1009931)
• Added support for Amazon Music Prime streaming. (Closes: LP:1333906, LP:1334022)
• Grooveshark Inactivity pop-up window is automatically dismissed. Implemented by Ionică Bizău (Closes: LP:1214091)
• Updated translations

Bug fixes:

• Added work-around to get rid of "ABOUT protocol source missing" dialog. This issue is caused by a bug in WebKitGtk. (Closes: LP:1320663)
• Fixed thumbs up/down actions in Jango.
• Fixed MPRIS memory leak and optimized metadata property. Then fixed a bug introduced by this change (MPRIS PropertiesChanges signal for Metadata property was not sent). (Closes: LP:1333343, LP:1336252)
• Last FM: Update now playing only once on state/song change. (Closes: LP:1347990)
• Updated Google Play Music country availabality. (Closes: LP:1349507)
• Removed non-functional Service updates functionality. Updates will be included in Nuvola Player bug fix releases.

Developer stuff:

• Disabled test suite failing under Fedora's mock tool. (Closes: LP:1327500)
• Require json-glib-1.0 even if last.fm is disabled, because it is used also in other code. (Closes: LP:1341462)
• Fixed build error with Valac 0.25.2: error: Too few arguments for specified format throw new Error.WRONG_RESPONSE("%s: Response doesn't contain nowplaying member."); (Closes: LP:1363381)
• Disabled Nuvola.JSApiTest, because it crashes because of JavaScriptCore issues.
• Last.fm - Update now playing only once on state/song change (Closes: LP:1347990)
• Fixed build error with Valac 0.25.2. (Closes: LP:1363381)
• Google Play 4.12: Update country availability. (Closes: LP:1349507)

To install Nuvola Player 2.5.0 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/2.04, 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 via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nuvola-player-builders/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install nuvolaplayer

According to the Nuvola Player official installation instructions, running "sudo apt-get upgrade" is required (that's why I added it to the installation instructions above) before installing Nuvola Player or else apt-get may fail to resolve some dependencies and the custom Flash Plugin required by some Nuvola Player services won't be installed and thus, those services will fail to work.

For Debian, Arch Linux and other Linux distributions, see the Nuvola Player downloads page.

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