Lollypop is free GNOME audio player developed in GTK+3, and was created as an alternative to Rhythmbox Music Player. It provides support for mp3/4, ogg and flac, Genre/Cover browsing, Genre/Artist/Cover browsing, Search, Queue, Party mode, Replay gain, Cover art downloader, Context artist view.
If you are looking for the perfect music player application for your linux desktop, then I would recommend this app as a good choice.
Key Features
- Walk through your collection by genres/artists and through albums artwork
- Let’s you choose music using the party mode
- Plays many audio formats like mp3, mp4, ogg and flac file formats
- Sync your music with Android phones and any mtp devices
- Search in your collection by artist, album and title using the improved search function
- The queue is a source designed to temporarily store the next tracks you want to play
- Comes with a native replay gain support
- Automatic artwork downloader from last.fm, itunes and spotify using the cover art downloader
- In addition, you can play music from the web using the web feature
The latest version available is Lollypop 0.9.224. Below are the key changes to this latest release
- Allow user to manually rate songs/albums
- Low quality image search fallback support when no Google API key available
- Playback fixes
- New fast scroll widget!
- New loved album section
- Original date tag support
- FIX AN IMPORTANT MEMORY LEAK (on first collection scan)
- Enhanced lyrics support
- Enhanced search widget
- Itunes search provider
Previous Release 0.9.223
- Bypass gvfs-http
- Better search provider
- Now (opt) depends on the portal
How to Install Lollypop 0.9.223 on Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnumdk/lollypop sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install lollypop
For Unity only, disable the overlay scrollbars:
gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal
Install Lollypop on OpenSUSE 13.2 and derivative systems:
sudo wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/gnumdk31/openSUSE_13.2/home:gnumdk31.repo -O /etc/zypp/repos.d/home:gnumdk31.repo sudo zypper refresh sudo zypper install lollypop
Remove App from OpenSUSE:
sudo zypper remove lollypop
Install App on Fedora 22 and derivative systems:
sudo yum install dnf-plugin-copr sudo dnf copr enable gnumdk/lollypop sudo dnf install lollypop
Remove App from Fedora 22:
sudo yum remove lollypop
