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• Track change notifications via libnotify;
• OpenSSL is now version 1.0.x;
• Local files playback works with libavcodec54;

spotify --ui.track_notifications_enabled=false

Install Spotify In Ubuntu via PPA [version 0.9.10 is only available on 64bit for now!]

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://repository.spotify.com/ stable non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list'
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 94558F59
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install spotify-client

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.

• 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.

Install Pithos in Ubuntu or Linux Mint

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

Asunder preferences - Encode

• Can save audio tracks as WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Opus, Wavpack, Musepack, AAC, and Monkey's audio files;
• Uses CDDB to name and tag each track;
• Creates M3U playlists;
• Can encode to multiple formats in one session;
• Simultaneous rip and encode;
• Allows for each track to be by a different artist;
• Does not require a specific desktop environment.

• Can now encode into OPUS;
• Allow metadata to contain invalid filesystem characters (e.g. "Artist" can contain punctuation like "J. S. Bach");
• AAC files are now tagged using neroAacTag (instead of no tags at all)
• Dots are now allowed in filenames;
• Added the application to the list of apps for audio CDs in Gnome;
• Added support for XDG_CACHE_HOME;
• Fixed some memory corruption bugs that may have caused crashes and undefined behaviour;
• Fixed the eject functionality to be more reliable;
• Fixed a bug where the CDDB info from a removed disk still showed up in a newly inserted disk;
• Fixed two major bugs that caused Asunder to hang while ripping.

Install the latest Asunder Audio CD ripper in Ubuntu via PPA

sudo apt-get install asunder

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:failsdownloadsteam/unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install asunder

• supports the following input formats: WAV, FLAC, APE, WavPack, True Audio (TTA).
• supported output formats: LAC, WAV, WavPack, AAC, OGG, MP3 and Opus (with the latest Flacon 1.2.0) with preset and quality settings, etc.;
• replay Gain analysis (album-gain and track-gain modes);
• multi-threaded conversion process;
• automatic character set detection for CUE files;
• automatially tag resulting track files;

Install Flacon in Ubuntu or Linux Mint

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

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.

• 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.

• 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.

Install Pithos 1.0 in Ubuntu 14.04

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