Install Rhythmbox 3.1 in Linux Mint and Ubuntu Based Distro [PPA]

Install Rhythmbox 3.1 in Linux Mint and Ubuntu Based Distro [PPA]

Rhythmbox is an open source music playing application designed to be distributed along with the GNOME desktop environment. It is powered by the well know GStreamer multimedia framework.

Rhythmbox 3.1 Changelog :

• “Edit > Preferences > General > Visibile Columns > BPM” missing mnemonic
• UPNP servers do not get removed after they become unavailable
• SendTo plugin does not work with music files containing apostrophe
• Rhythmbox incorrectly reads the year tag of m4a files
• support libsecret 0.18 (SecretUnstable to Secret API change)
• rhythmbox crashes upon “Jump to Playing Song”
• Song properties dialog “Basic” tab, “Comment” keyboard mnemonic is same as “Composer”
• Notification disappears when I pause my music
• New Radio Paradise URLs
• The latest rhythmbox needs atleast libglib 2.34
• Wording used for importing music in import screen is not clear
• rhythmbox crashes with SIGSEGV due to double free in rb_podcast_parse_channel_free
• rhythmbox / audioscrobbler fails if built from separate build dir
• Inequal sizing and alignment in rhythmbox UI.
• grilo: Do not free GrlRegistry
• rhythmbox-client –stop
• Rhythmbox 3.0.2 crashes if attempting to load pls stream before any other type
• AAC tags are improperly parsed for the “year” field
• daap source compilation failure with ubuntu 14.04
• Rating stars are not vertically aligned in GtkTreeView listing
• Rhythmbox crash when adding songs to a playlist
• Right-clicking on song causes Segmentation fault
• song-info ui files need update
• rhythmbox.appdata.xml.in is in wrong location

To Install hythmbox 3.1 in Linux Ubuntu (12.04, 12.10, 13.04, 13.10, 14.0, 14.10), mint (14,15,16,17) and debian derivative system, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fossfreedom/rhythmbox
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rhythmbox

Optional, to remove rhythmbox, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo apt-get remove rhythmbox

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