How do I Install lollypop in Ubuntu?

I recently discovered Lollypop, A GNOME music player, it looks awesome. How do I install it under Ubuntu?

Solution 1:

Lollypop is a superb GNOME Music Player. It's been in the works for well over a year, and it already looks and works amazingly well.

Adding the PPA

Lollypop supports more than one Linux distro. It supports five, plus FreeBSD. Supported versions: ArchLinux, Debian, Fedora, Opensuse, Ubuntu (duh), FreeBSD.

Installing Lollypop is as easy as adding a PPA, refreshing your sources list, and installing the lollypop packages:

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

The developer added some comment about getting Lollypop to work under 14.04.

"Not compatible with Ubuntu 14.04 (Do not handle an essential widget)" - gnumdk (Cédric Bellegarde), Lollypop crashes under Ubuntu 14.04 · Issue #427 · gnumdk/lollypop

flathub

Lollypop is also available to install via flathub like so:

flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Lollypop

You can then search for it via your system application launcher, make sure the PPA version is removed, like so apt remove lollypop, otherwise you'll have 2 of the same applications.

Or you can run the app via the terminal

flatpak run org.gnome.Lollypop

Features

First, lets list all of the features:

• Artist bio, lyrics
  • Get artist biography from Wikipedia and Last.fm, read lyrics from Wikia
• Cover art downloader
  • Automatic artwork downloader from Last.fm, iTunes, Spotify
• Intuitive browsing
  • Walk through your collection by genres, artists and album artwork
• MTP devices
  • Sync your music with Android phones and any MTP devices -Search
• Search in your collection by artist, album and title. You can then play searched items, add them to the queue or to a playlist.
• Queue
  • The queue is a source designed to temporarily store the next tracks you want to play.
• Fullscreen view
  • Visual access from your couch
• Replay gain
  • Native replay gain support
• Party mode
  • Let Lollypop play music for you

Compile

Just in case you want the latest and greatest, here is how to compile Lollypop under Ubuntu:

The following dependencies need to be satisfied before you can compile Lollypop:

gtk3
gobject-introspection
gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0 (Debian)
python3
intltool (make)
itstool (make)
totem-plparser
python (make)
python-cairo
python-dbus
python-gobject
python-sqlite
python-pylast >= 1.0

Here are some of the packages for debian based distros: sudo apt-get install autoconf libglib2.0-dev intltool yelp-tools libgirepository1.0-dev libgtk-3-dev

git clone https://github.com/gnumdk/lollypop.git
cd lollypop
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

Regarding compiling Lollypop on Ubuntu 14.04 the developer, said:

"Not compatible. Wait for next LTS" - gnumdk (Cédric Bellegarde), Compile error: syntax error near unexpected token `disable-static · Issue #428 · gnumdk/lollypop

Reference:

• Lollypop, a GNOME Music Player - EuroBytes

(I am the author)

Solution 2:

Lollypop is completly free open source distribution. Try to use command:

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnumdk/lollypop


  sudo apt-get update

Then run:

  sudo apt-get install lollypop

Player is installed, search it from the Ubuntu search bar.

To remove lollypop run::

sudo apt-get remove lollypop