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Nuvola Player 2.2.0 Released, Needs New Maintainer

<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://nuvolaplayer.fenryxo.cz/">Nuvola Player</a> is a cloud music player that integrates music services such as Grooveshark, Google Play Music, Amazon Cloud Player, Pandora, Rdio, Hype Machine or 8tracks, with your desktop.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/nuvola-player-2.2.0.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Nuvola Player 2.2.0" border="0" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_bBa486pvSa6mZaS8XtJs6RIwM__1eolIeKSECnp6zlr1jfkTbiG29OMK43xp2tq_zY0wd4IhT1thmsap313ufrXbVZEFcjWxreRXAbDb4qCiyumNVI2NnE6H5loWmdX14QJGhOWtrEg/s320/nuvola-player-2.2.0.png" width="320" /></a></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">With Nuvola Player, you get notifications, Unity quicklists, multimedia keys support, Mpris v2 support (Ubuntu Sound Menu / GNOME Shell Media Player extension integration), lyrics fetching, last.fm scrobbling, proxy support and more.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Nuvola Player 2.2.0</b> has been <a href="https://plus.google.com/110794636546911932554/posts/BjXGLNRKoTr">released</a> recently, bringing new features such as support for <a href="http://bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a> (an online music store and platform for artist promotion that caters mainly to independent artists) as well as bug fixes.</div><br /><b>Changes in Nuvola Player 2.2.0:</b><br /><ul><li>new service supported: Bancamp;</li><li>Nuvola Player now supports scrobbling to libre.fm, a last.fm alternative;</li><li>Last.fm love and ban actions are now available from the main menu, tray ion and Unity quicklist;</li><li>some services allow downloading songs - Nuvola player now features a simple download manager to allow downloading songs from these services;</li><li>bug fixes, including Google Play playback status detection, enable links to song downloading for Google Play, fixed metadata and playback status parsing for Deezer;</li></ul><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/nuvola-player-2.2.0-plugins.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Nuvola Player plugins" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/nuvola-player-2.2.0-plugins_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nuvola Player plugins<u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Sadly, the same day Nuvola Player 2.2.0 was released, a <a href="https://plus.google.com/110794636546911932554/posts/bc5fp7TgJgL">message</a> was posted on its Google Plus page, mentioning that <b>Nuvola Player needs a new maintainer</b> because the main developer, <a href="https://plus.google.com/111485183888722402983">Jiří Janoušek</a>, doesn't have enough time to continue the development. If you can adopt the project, contact Jiří at the Nuvola Player Development <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nuvola-player-devel">mailing list</a>.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Nuvola Player in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu users can install the latest stable Nuvola Player by using its official PPA. Add the PPA and install Nuvola Player using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nuvola-player-builders/stable<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install nuvolaplayer</code></pre><br />There are also PPAs for <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nuvola-player-builders/+archive/beta">beta</a> and <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nuvola-player-builders/+archive/unstable">unstable</a> builds.<br /><br /><b>Debian: </b>Nuvola Player is avialable in a <a href="http://ppa.fenryxo.cz/nuvola-player/README.html">repository</a>.<br /><br /><b>Arch Linux</b> users can install Nuvola Player via AUR: <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=58166">stable</a> | <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nuvola-bzr/">unstable</a> (bzr).<br /><br />For <b>other Linux distributions</b>, see the Nuvola Player <a href="http://nuvolaplayer.fenryxo.cz/download.html">downloads</a> page.

Nuvola Player 2.2.0 Released, Needs New Maintainer

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Nuvola Player 2.1 Beta 1 Released [Cloud Music Player With Desktop Integration]

<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEdQOe3Tv0G_zqIwcgAgETofsotDb9Proz6SXTM0Bb3qMG2a6Z8iMwUURDxA-DG0Zo9F-dX1H6JcB5XciJu435CZOrx7SixCj6Nm9B8Z3Wquwn7eCa-s9_qFcReZ0JzA9H3VblxlGZJx8/s1600/nuvola-player_1.png"><img alt="Nuvola Player" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEdQOe3Tv0G_zqIwcgAgETofsotDb9Proz6SXTM0Bb3qMG2a6Z8iMwUURDxA-DG0Zo9F-dX1H6JcB5XciJu435CZOrx7SixCj6Nm9B8Z3Wquwn7eCa-s9_qFcReZ0JzA9H3VblxlGZJx8/s320/nuvola-player_1.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://nuvolaplayer.fenryxo.cz/">Nuvola Player</a> is a cloud music player that supports services such as Grooveshark, Google Play Music, Amazon Cloud Player, Pandora, Rdio, Hype Machine or 8tracks.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The application integrates tightly with the desktop, providing notifications, multimedia keys support, Unity quicklists, Mpris v2 (Ubuntu Sound Menu / GNOME Shell Media Player extension integration) support and more. Other features include last.fm scrobbling, proxy support, Dock Manager integration (integrates with Docky, AWN or DockBarX) and lyrics fetching.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Kkz8Lg_xmXyZFTC-F1nYyEk4ZdJ54NwKNdbOIacLca9Pl5zkj0n59Up2gMHAPgZXdMfnQovWbpyk58tv8n614GGEiNKq4fHwFowdb0BnKHHbzYpVM64JOTSTNbnthEjJqQFMEIJavUI/s1600/nuvola-player_2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Nuvola Player" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Kkz8Lg_xmXyZFTC-F1nYyEk4ZdJ54NwKNdbOIacLca9Pl5zkj0n59Up2gMHAPgZXdMfnQovWbpyk58tv8n614GGEiNKq4fHwFowdb0BnKHHbzYpVM64JOTSTNbnthEjJqQFMEIJavUI/s320/nuvola-player_2.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nuvola Player plugins - it's now possible to specify which service will scrobble your music to last.fm<u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Nuvola Player 2.1 beta 1 has been <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/110794636546911932554/posts/4eFtmzJZ93E">released</a> today, featuring the following changes:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">new supported service: Deezer;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">format support information: when a plugin is missing, Nuvola Player now displays a warning;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">persistent notifications with actions (so you can skip to the next track, pause or go to the previous track from the notifications) - these are supported by GNOME Shell (including the <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/gnome-shell-how-to-enable-notifications.html">lock screen</a>) and Xfce;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">it's now possible to specify which service will scrobble your music to Last.fm;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">added a few keyboard shortcuts: Go back <shift><alt>Left and go forward <shift><alt>Right<br />"show only toolbar" and "show both toolbar and menubar" have been removed and the main menu has been reorganized. A context menu (right mouse click) provides quick access to go back/forward, go home and reload actions; </alt></shift></alt></shift></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><shift><alt><shift><alt>it is possible to set preference of a dark GTK+ theme (so for instance, if you're using Adwaita, selecting this will make the application use Adwaita dark);</alt></shift></alt></shift></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><shift><alt><shift><alt>service selector is opened in a separate window and uses native GTK+ widgets instead of web view;</alt></shift></alt></shift></li><li><shift><alt><shift><alt>main view respects text size set in Accesibility preferences;</alt></shift></alt></shift> </li><li>many <a href="http://nuvolaplayer.fenryxo.cz/releases/2.1/bug_fixes.html">bug fixes</a> and more.</li></ul><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoCp-so5n0tio3M5Lubc6gFh6ZVsMiTPW7V8KbVOULLJ4ACgRSNg9OrmpVkr-pXQAt8Dj-EQbX8Lo-bOChgwnhaqnG54GC30IA1JrB3HoVtCrVNQ4Ihz1Nz_PhkIaqgaZVYKK1ivNworw/s1600/nuvola-player_3.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Nuvola Player notification gnome shell" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoCp-so5n0tio3M5Lubc6gFh6ZVsMiTPW7V8KbVOULLJ4ACgRSNg9OrmpVkr-pXQAt8Dj-EQbX8Lo-bOChgwnhaqnG54GC30IA1JrB3HoVtCrVNQ4Ihz1Nz_PhkIaqgaZVYKK1ivNworw/s320/nuvola-player_3.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nuvola Player persistent GNOME Shell notification with actions</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Nuvola Player in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04 users can install the latest Nuvola Player 2.1 beta 1 by using its official beta PPA:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nuvola-player-builders/beta<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install nuvolaplayer</code></pre><br />Alternatively, you can also use the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nuvola-player-builders/+archive/stable">stable</a> or <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nuvola-player-builders/+archive/unstable">unstable</a> PPAs.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>You can download the source or report any bugs you may find @ <a href="https://launchpad.net/nuvola-player">Launchpad</a>.</b></div>

Nuvola Player 2.1 Beta 1 Released [Cloud Music Player With Desktop Integration]

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Cloud Music Player `Nuvola` Sees New Stable Release

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhigtnYxjeqypYHTWu8isyZAERga1eUDJ3MHhsOJrUra9jgedvoO3_B1jl9HUAueMNuXdWhz2KLdUlo9cQwr2eYovIe-cp7XAURrSCrlbB1GDGXFFJXPxwQ4j7pWzFwiqR46s_eSsgXmtwd/s1600/nuvolaplayer.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="nuvolaplayer" border="0" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhigtnYxjeqypYHTWu8isyZAERga1eUDJ3MHhsOJrUra9jgedvoO3_B1jl9HUAueMNuXdWhz2KLdUlo9cQwr2eYovIe-cp7XAURrSCrlbB1GDGXFFJXPxwQ4j7pWzFwiqR46s_eSsgXmtwd/s320/nuvolaplayer.png" title="nuvolaplayer" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://nuvolaplayer.fenryxo.cz/home.html">Nuvola Player</a> is an application that integrates cloud music services like Google Music, Grooveshark, Hype Machine, 8tracks, Pandora, Rdio and Amazon Cloud Player with your desktop. </b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Using it, you'll get desktop notifications, multimedia keys support, Mpris v2 </b>(integration with Ubuntu Sound Menu or GNOME Shell Media Player extension)<b> integration, Unity quicklists and more.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Two Nuvola Player stable versions have been released today: 1.1.0 and 2.0. The difference between the two versions is that 2.0 comes with GTK3 (only works with GTK3.4+, for instance Ubuntu 12.04 or newer), but the new features are the same in both versions. The GTK3 port fixes an old <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/nuvola-player/+bug/958154">issue</a> with a bug in WebKitGTK 1.8 which caused some services to only be partially rendered.</div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaaa8MRICv7oytbcEg0U2-h7ih8BAqTcT86CIC-09asST5YHth14oM0DZ1de0SLvCrCkVnXYJbmVzPxEydkDm7gKeYbBf4T1uiYA7EBja9bJTwzAk3UBP6xPuUNbZ1EhxiYK_8ziN07Hdd/s1600/nuvola_2.0.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="nuvolaplayer" border="0" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaaa8MRICv7oytbcEg0U2-h7ih8BAqTcT86CIC-09asST5YHth14oM0DZ1de0SLvCrCkVnXYJbmVzPxEydkDm7gKeYbBf4T1uiYA7EBja9bJTwzAk3UBP6xPuUNbZ1EhxiYK_8ziN07Hdd/s320/nuvola_2.0.png" title="nuvolaplayer" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New service selector screen</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b>Changes in the latest Nuvola Player:</b><br /><ul><li>new service: Amazon Cloud Player</li><li>a new service selector screen</li><li>built-in Last.fm scrobbling (you no longer have to use a third-party user script for this)</li><li>a new lyrics extension</li><li>you can now control Nuvola Player from the command line (via "nuvolaplayer-client" command)</li><li>service specific settings</li><li>extensions support -> some features available in the previous releases are now available as extensions, and can be enabled/disabled. This includes: Dock Manager support, Last.fm, Lyrics, Media keys, Mpris, Notifications, Tray icon, Unity quicklists.</li><li>The "only toolbar" mode is now used by default, following the elementary menu style</li><li>an auto play option has been added in the preferences</li><li>Google Play, 8tracks and Amazon Cloud Player use HTML5 audio support for playback instead of Flash plugin</li><li>JavaScript API 2.0</li><li>WebKit WebView Inspector</li><li>Removed support for user scripts</li></ul><br />A full changelog can be found <a href="http://nuvolaplayer.fenryxo.cz/releases/2.0.html">HERE</a>.<br /><br />Note: some of these new features have been available in Nuvola Player for a while, but in the unstable/beta PPA, not as a stable release.<br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Nuvola Player</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu users can install the latest stable Nuvola Player (2.0 for Ubuntu 12.04 and 1.1.0 for the others) using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nuvola-player-builders/stable<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install nuvolaplayer</code></pre><br />You can also use the Nuvola Unstable PPA to get the latest features and bug fixes (but remember, this PPA is considered unstable):<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nuvola-player-builders/unstable<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install nuvolaplayer</code></pre><br /><br /><b>There are also packages available for:</b><br /><ul><li><a href="http://ppa.fenryxo.cz/nuvola-player/README.html">Debian</a></li><li>Arch Linux: <a href="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=58166">stable</a> | <a href="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=54163">bzr</a> </li></ul><br />Or, download the source via <a href="https://launchpad.net/nuvola-player/+download">Launchpad</a>. <br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="https://plus.google.com/110794636546911932554/posts/h5jqds2Hyqa">+Nuvola Player</a></i></div>

Cloud Music Player `Nuvola` Sees New Stable Release

Nuvola Player is an application that integrates cloud music services like Google Music, Grooveshark, Hype Machine, 8tracks, Pandora, Rdio a...

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