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Sunday, October 18, 2015

PPA Updates: Atraci 0.6.0, Atom 0.123.0, Brackets 0.42, GPaste 3.10.3 And 3.12.2, Minitube 2.2, Oracle JDK 7u67 And More

As you might have noticed, I was on holiday* until today and because of that, there were no new articles on failsdownloads and no updates for the failsdownloads PPAs. Today I updated the PPA packages for most applications that had a new release while I was away, and to speed things up, below you'll find a quick list with what was updated / what's new.

Notes:
  • there are no installation instructions in the article for the apps below. Instead, you'll find links to articles explaining how to install those applications in Ubuntu / Linux Mint.
  • as a reminder, only Ubuntu 14.04 and 12.04 are still supported by Canonical (and of course, 14.10, which is currently under development) / Linux Mint 17 Qiana and Linux Mint 13 Maya. Launchpad PPAs don't support other Ubuntu / Linux Mint releases any more.

That said, let's proceed with the updates.


Atom text editor

Atom 0.123.0, an open source "hackable text editor for the 21st Century" developed by GitHub, which is currently in beta:
  • The maximized state of the window is now properly restored on launch;
  • The language-mustache package is now bundled by default;
  • Added a button to the Incompatible Packages view that reloads Atom and rechecks all the installed packages for compatibility. This is also available from the command palette;
  • Atom's Chrome version has been upgraded from 31 to 36;
  • Atom's Node version has been upgraded from 0.11.10 to 0.11.13;
  • Support for number pad keybindings have been removed. Number pad keys will now resolve to their equivalent keystroke as if they were pressed on the main keyboard area. You should remove the num- modifier from any keystrokes in your ~/.atom/keymap.cson file;
  • Fixed an issue on Linux where tabs could not be dragged between windows;
  • You can now delete a bracket and its matching pair at the same time using ctrl-backspace on Mac and alt-ctrl-backspace on Linux and Windows;
  • ctrl-shift-Z is now mapped to core:redo on Linux;
  • Atom now ships with a light version of the Base16 Tomorrow syntax theme;
  • Added a bunch of new Go snippets;
  • Many other new features and bug fixes, check the changelog below for details.

Changelog | Article on failsdownloads: Install Atom Text Editor In Ubuntu Via PPA [32bit + 64bit]


Atraci YouTUbe music player

Atraci 0.6.0, a new open source music player which uses YouTube as a source:
  • fixed YouTube decipher issues;
  • added support for multimedia keys;
  • shows featured playlist if you live in Taiwan & USA;
  • added option to open song in YouTube;
  • many bug fixes.

Changelog | Article on failsdownloads: Atraci: New YouTube-Based Music Player


Brackets text editor

Brackets 0.42, an open-source code editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript:
  • Theme support: Brackets now has built-in support for editor themes, and includes default light and dark themes. Additional themes can be installed via Extension Manager;
  • Replace in Files: Check/Uncheck All Matches for a File: When doing a batch or multi-file replace, you can now check/uncheck the matches for an entire file;
  • Change Language Mode: Change the language mode for an individual file by selecting the language from the dropdown menu in the status bar
  • Turn off Code Hints: New preferences to disable all code hints or hints from an individual provider;
  • Drag and Drop Installation of Extensions: Install extensions by dragging zip files onto the Extension Manager dialog.

Changelog | Article on failsdownloads: Install Brackets In Ubuntu Via PPA (Open Source Code Editor For HTML, CSS And JavaScript)


GPaste

GPaste 3.12.2 (for GNOME 3.12 / Ubuntu 14.10 only) and 3.10.3 (for GNOME 3.10 / Ubuntu 14.04), a clipboard manager which was initially created for GNOME Shell, but which now also ships with an Ubuntu AppIndicator:
  • Desktop files have been fixed;
  • Fixes for the ubuntu app-indicator;
  • Keybinding to mark an item as being a password;
  • Misc bugfixes.

Changelog | Article on failsdownloads: Install GPaste In Ubuntu Via PPA (Native GNOME Shell Clipboard Manager)


Minitube

Minitube 2.2, a native YouTube client for the desktop:
  • Subscriptions context menu: Unsubscribe, Mark as Watched;
  • Added --stop-after-this command line switch;
  • Added Stop After This Video Unity & Gnome 3 action;
  • Fixed painting errors when scrolling playlist on Linux;
  • Fixed bug with dragging playlist items from the thumbnail;
  • Fixed some videos not playing.

Changelog not available | Article on failsdownloads



Oracle JDK 7u67: according to the release notes, this update includes only a bug fix for a regression - java_arguments not accepted after update to 7u65.

Changelog | Article on failsdownloads: Install Oracle Java 7 in Ubuntu via PPA Repository


Y PPA Manager

Y PPA Manager 2014.08.18: the search feature stopped working while I was on holiday due to a change in Launchpad.net's code. This issue was fixed with the update released today.

No changelog available | Article on failsdownloads


Other packages from the failsdownloads PPAs updated today include: FreshPlayer Plugin (Git pull), Tor Browser 3.6.4, KKEdit 0.2.2, Wimlib 1.7.1 and youtube-dl 2014.08.10.

* In case you're wondering why I didn't announce that I'm on holiday well, that's because I did that a while back and the website was filled with spam comments and also, the number of attempts to hack my online accounts increased considerably. That's why I stopped announcing it publicly. Sorry about that!
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Saturday, October 17, 2015

Atraci: New YouTube-Based Music Player

Atraci is a new open source music player which uses YouTube as a source. The app supports creating playlists and comes with some basic features like repeat, shuffle and so on.

Atraci

The application, available for Linux, Windows and Mac, uses an interface somewhat similar to Popcorn Time (built using Node.js) and, according to its homepage, it allows you to listen to more than 60 million songs, "100% Free. No Ads. No Sign up. And Legal".

Atraci
A playlist in Atraci

Here's how it works: when searching, Atraci uses iTunes, Last.fm and SoundCloud to display song results which include the album cover, the song title and artist. For playback, the application uses YouTube to "stream the highest quality videos", at least that's what the application GitHub page says but from my test, I can tell you that the app doesn't seem to be able to play 1080p videos, most probably because YouTube uses DASH for all 1080p videos.

Atraci supports playing videos however, because it was created to be used as a music player, it lacks some features when it comes to videos: you can't select the video quality and you can't play full-screen videos (but you can maximize the player window):

Atraci

Atraci features:
  • play more than 60 million tracks / videos
  • top tracks, featured artist sections
  • supports playlists with shuffle and repeat options
  • track search autocomplete
  • 2 views which support sorting by track or artist
  • history of recently played tracks

The application is about one month old, so there are many things which can be improved or added. Its roadmap page links to a list of open bugs which includes some interesting feature requests like a recommendation system, lyrics support, an option to get the current playing song url, proxy support, last.fm/libre.fm scrobbling support and more - hopefully at least some of these will be added in future releases.


Install Atraci in Ubuntu / Linux Mint


Note: the application uses Node.js and Launchpad doesn't support building such packages, so the PPA package downloads and installs the latest Atraci binary from GitHub.

Ubuntu (and derivatives) / Linux Mint users can install Atraci by using the failsdownloads Atraci PPA. To add the PPA and install the application, use the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:failsdownloadsteam/atraci
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install atraci


For other Linux distributions (for Ubuntu as well, if you don't want to use the PPA above), Windows or Mac OS X, download Atraci from GitHub.

To run it on Linux, extract the downloaded archive, make the "Atraci" file executable (in Nautilus / Nemo: right click the file, select "Properties" and on the "Permissions" tab, enable "Allow executing file as program") and double click it.

Report any bugs related to the packaging in the comments below or, if you encounter bugs related to the application, report them @ GitHub.

For a somewhat similar application, but for the command line, see: New Command Line YouTube Player And Downloader With Local Playlists Support: mps-youtube

Thanks to Daniel for the tip!
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