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Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Pandora Client `Pithos` 1.1.0 And 1.0.2 Released

Two new Pithos versions were released yesterday: 1.1.0 (for GTK 3.14+ only) and 1.0.2 and they include an important bug fix which caused the app to stop playing randomly.

Pithos is a Pandora.com (a music streaming and recommendation service that's only available in the United States, Australia and New Zealand) client which comes with pretty much everything you'd need in such an application, like:

cover art;
thumbs up / thumbs down / tired of this song options;
allows switching between Pandora stations;
allows editing QuickMix and creating stations;
desktop integration: Ubuntu AppIndicator, notifications, MPRIS v2 support - so Pithos integrates with the Ubuntu Sound Menu / GNOME Shell Mediaplayer extension;
media keys support;
proxy support;
last.fm scrobbling.

Pithos 1.1.0, which requires GTK 3.14 or newer (Ubuntu 15.04, Fedora 21 and newer), was released yesterday and it coms with redesigned plugin preferences, performance improvements, the MPRIS and Last.fm plugins are now optional and various other tweaks.

However, the most important change in this release is a fix for a major bug that caused the app to stop playing randomly. Because Pithos 1.1.0 requires GTK 3.14, this fix was backported to the Pithos 1.0.x series, which needs GTK 3.10+ (so it works with Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10, Fedora 20, etc.).

Install Pithos in Ubuntu or Linux Mint

Pithos is available in the official Ubuntu repositories, but that's a pretty old version. To install Pithos 1.1.0 in Ubuntu 15.04 or Pithos 1.0.2 in Ubuntu 14.10 or 14.04 / Linux Mint 17.1 or 17, you can use the official Pithos PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pithos/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pithos

Arch Linux users can install Pithos via AUR.

For other Linux distributions, see the install section from the Pithos homepage.

Report any bugs you may find @ GitHub.

Pandora Client `Pithos` 1.0.1 Released With Bug Fixes

Pithos 1.0.1 was released recently and it includes some minor improvements and bug fixes - for instance, the bug that was causing the Ubuntu Sound Menu to stop working when using Pithos was fixed in this release.

For those not familiar with Pithos, this is a simple Pandora.com client which includes features such as:

cover art;
thumbs up / thumbs down / tired of this song options;
allows switching between Pandora stations;
allows editing QuickMix and creating stations;
desktop integration: Ubuntu AppIndicator, notifications, MPRIS v2 support - so Pithos integrates with the Ubuntu Sound Menu / GNOME Shell Mediaplayer extension;
media keys support;
proxy support;
last.fm scrobbling.

Pandora is a music streaming and recommendation service that's only available in the United States, Australia and New Zealand. You can use it in any other country with an US proxy, VPN, a DNS service or with Tor and SelekTOR.

Changes in Pithos 1.0.1:

Automatically install missing codecs if supported;
Save window position between sessions;
Fix saving last station on quit;
Fix pacparser support;
Improve pandora module docs;
Add setup.py command to build docs;
Add appdata file;
notification_icon: Make toggling visibility more reliable;
mpris: Fix exception when querying position;
mpris: Implement setting volume;
screensaver_pause: Improve Unity support;
OSX: mediakeys and notify support.

Install Pithos in Ubuntu 14.04 or 14.10 / Linux Mint 17

Pithos is available in the official Ubuntu repositories, but that's a pretty old version. To install the latest Pithos in Ubuntu 14.04 or 14.10 / Linux Mint 17, you can use the official Pithos PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pithos/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pithos

Arch Linux users can install Pithos via AUR.

For other Linux distributions, see the install section from the Pithos homepage (the app should also work on Windows and Mac, but there are no binaries for now).

Report any bugs you may find @ GitHub.

Pandora Linux Client `Pithos` 1.0 Released, Install It In Ubuntu 14.04

Pithos, a Pandora.com Linux client, was updated to version 1.0 recently. With this release, Pithos was ported to Python 3, GTK3 and GStreamer 1.0 but that's not all that's new - there are also some new features as well as a new app icon.

Pithos features:

switch between Pandora stations;
Cover Art;
thumbs up / thumbs down / tired of this song options;
desktop integration: Ubuntu AppIndicator, notifications;
allows editing QuickMix and creating stations;
media key support;
proxy support;
last.fm scrobblling.

Changes in the latest Pithos 1.0:

ported to Python3, GTK3 and Gstreamer 1.0;
new icons;
various UI changes;
added indication when songs are replaced by ads;
added support for Proxy Auto-Config;
display song bitrate;
show play/pause and skip actions in notifications (this doesn't work with Ubuntu's notifications);
various bug fixes: fixed buffering bug, handle PLAYLIST_EXCEEDED error, improved error handling with invalid album art url and more.

Also, with version 1.0, Pithos should work on Windows, but this is not officially supported yet.

Note that currently there's a bug in the Ubuntu Sound Menu which is triggered by Pithos: when using Pithos, the Ubuntu Sound Menu stops working - until this is fixed, a work-around to get the Sound indicator to work again is to log out and log back in or to restart the Unity panel using the following command: "restart unity-panel-service".

Install Pithos 1.0 in Ubuntu 14.04

Pithos 1.0 is available in its official PPA for Ubuntu 14.04 only (an older version of Pithos is available in the PPA as well as in the official Ubuntu repositories)!. Add the PPA and install Pithos 1.0 by using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pithos/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pithos

Arch Linux users can install Pithos 1.0 via AUR.

For installing Pithos in Fedora (via RPMFusion) or how to install it from source, see the INSTALL section from the Pithos homepage.

If you encounter bugs, report them @ GitHub.

Thanks to Jason for the tip!