Install Lollypop Music Player on Linux Ubuntu Systems. Lollypop is a modern music player for GNOME. Lollypop is a powerful Rhythmbox alternative. Lollypop open-source audio player is developed in GTK+3 and supports various popular audio formats, including mp3, mp4, ogg and flac. It can also be used to visualize the songs via album, artist or genre. The music player has two UI – White and Black.
Features
- Artist bio, lyrics Artist bio, lyrics: Get artists and tracks information from the web.
- Intuitive browsing: Walk through your collection by genres/artists and through albums artwork.
- Play many audio formats: mp3, mp4, ogg, and flac
- Cover art downloader: Automatic artwork downloader from Last.fm, Itunes and Spotify.
- MTP devices: Sync your music with Android phones and any mtp devices…
- Fullscreen view: Visual access from your couch
- Party mode: Let Lollypop choose music for you.
- Native replay gain support.
- Search in your collection by artist, album and title.
Download Lollypop
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Flatpak: https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.gnome.Lollypop.flatpakref
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Fedora: https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/gnumdk/lollypop
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Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/~gnumdk/+archive/ubuntu/lollypop
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OpenSUSE: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:apps/lollypop
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Arch Linux: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/lollypop
Install Lollypop
To install Lollypop on Ubuntu Systems, run the commands given below:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnumdk/lollypop
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lollypop
gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal
apt-get install python3-pip
pip3 install pylast
Once installed, open Lollypop music player from Ubuntu Dash or Terminal.
Building from git
$ git clone https://github.com/gnumdk/lollypop.git
$ cd lollypop
$ meson builddir --prefix=/usr
# sudo ninja -C builddir install
In case you want the integration with Last.fm to work you need to install pylast
# apt-get install python3-pip
# pip3 install pylast
On Debian (Jessie)
$ git clone https://github.com/gnumdk/lollypop.git
$ cd lollypop
# apt-get install meson libglib2.0-dev yelp-tools libgirepository1.0-dev libgtk-3-dev
$ meson builddir --prefix=/usr
# sudo ninja -C builddir install
On Fedora
$ git clone https://github.com/gnumdk/lollypop.git
$ cd lollypop
# sudo dnf install meson glib2-devel yelp-tools gtk3-devel gobject-introspection-devel python3
$ meson builddir --prefix=/usr
# sudo ninja -C builddir install