Monday, January 6, 2014

How To Install Nuvola Player 2.3.0 in Ubuntu and other Ubuntu derivatives

How To Install Nuvola Player 2.3.0 in Ubuntu and other Ubuntu derivatives
Nuvola Player runs a web interface of cloud music services in its own window and provides integration with a Linux desktop (multimedia keys, system tray, media player applets, dock menu, notifications and more).Nuvola Player is an open-source project licensed under GNU GPL 3 and written mainly in Vala (the core) and JavaScript (service integrations).

New in this release:
* Added donation bar.
* Player will show a warning when a missing plugin is detected.
* Added information about format support.
* New service Deezer.
* New service Bandcamp.
* Extensions: Almost all extensions are enabled by default.
* Notifications extension: Added support for actions and resident notifications.
* Last.fm extension: Added switches to disable scrobbling for particular services.
* Added a few keyboard shortcuts: Go back <shift><alt>Left and go forward <shift><alt>Right.
* Service selector is opened in a separate window and uses native GTK+ widgets instead of web view. GTK+ zoom level is respected and non-free screenshots are not loaded.
* User interface: Added option to prefer dark GTK+ theme.
* Context menu of a web view is populated with custom actions.
* Removed UI modes "toolbar only" and "both toolbar and menubar".
* Main menu reorganized. MPRIS extension: Renamed to Remote Player Interface.

Fixes in this release:
* Google Play 4.4: fix sandbox pattern to enable Flash object for playback.
* Google Play 4.5: Fix next/previous action broken by a recent web app update.
* Updated VAPI files and added libnotify.vapi from Vala 0.22.1 tarball to fix build error.
* Semiautomatic updates of service integrations providing hot fixes hot fixes for breakages caused by sudden changes in a web interface of streaming services.
* Improved detection of Flash and GStreamer issues with links to the new help site.
* JavaScript API was given methods to check format support and version was increased to 2.2. Updated translations.

Installation commands for terminal:

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

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