Nuvola Music Player Hits Beta, Adds Grooveshark, Hype Machine Support + More

By , Published December 12, 2011

A new beta release of the newly-renamed Nuvola music player is now available for testing.

The application was formerly known as ‘Google Music Frame’.

What’s New?

Three additional cloud music services have been added alongside Google Music support. These are:

  • Grooveshark
  • Hypemachine
  • 8Tracks.com

A menubar has been added to the application, and the preferences dialog has been bulked out with further options, including: -

  • Disable/Enable Try icon
  • Disable/Enable Notifications
  • Window closing rules
  • Proxy support
  • Multimedia keys toggle

Download

The Nuvola player beta can be installed from the Nuvola Beta PPA. The PPA supports Ubuntu 10.04 through 12.04.

Adding this PPA is not recommended for anyone wanting to use a stable release as it will only contain beta-quality builds.

Related posts:

  1. Google Music Frame Gets Renamed, Adds Grooveshark, 8Track Support
  2. Google Music Frame 0.3 Released, Adds Minor New Features
  3. Music Player Tomahawk 0.2 Tweaks Appearance, Adds New Features
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  • Anonymous

    8tracks!!!!!

  • http://nosheep.org.ua Алексей Раю

    Looks classy. But those Tango icons!!! They are killing me!!!

    • http://fenryxo.cz Fenryxo

      The default Ubuntu icon theme is ugly. Nuvola Player looks better with Faenza icon theme.

      • http://nosheep.org.ua Алексей Раю

        It definitely does.

        • Rev. Shawn McDaniel, KSC

          Everything looks better with Faenza icon theme.  Especially now that Ubuntu uses the default Unity desktop, I wish they would just switch to Faenza as their default icon theme, or create their own variant of it like Mint did.

          • http://nosheep.org.ua Алексей Раю

            Tango’s candy plastic looks like mid 90′s.

          • satish gupta

            I heard somwhare new icon theme for ubuntu is in the process www.yellowicon.com/portfolio/icons/ubuntu

          • http://twitter.com/PeachyLuigi I’m the watermelon

            sorry, but those aren’t Ubuntu’s new icons…

  • Anonymous

    If there is one thing developers like to develop…….it’s music players.

    • http://fenryxo.cz Fenryxo

      Nuvola Player is different than classic music players that play local songs. It more like specialized runtime for cloud music web apps.

      • Anonymous

        People are going to do what interests them most, but I still wish this energy was going into developing plugins for tomahawk or clementine. That way people could get an integrated experience for all music sources.

        • http://twitter.com/MotionShot Heimen Stoffels

          Or for Banshee, RB or Amarok. You see how tastes differ now? ;)

          • Anonymous

            That would also be great.

        • http://fenryxo.cz Fenryxo

          I just wanted to integrate Google Music to Ubuntu. It was not possible to create a plugin for Tomahawk/Clementine/Rhythmbox/Banshee because of language used to develop these players (C++, C#), therefore I’ve created new application.

          • Anonymous

            Fair enough. Makes sense.

    • Anonymous

      Smacks Smellyman upside the face

  • http://www.cranked.me/ Gary

    Showing ads in a music player on my Linux machine? No thank you. Fail app.

    • http://twitter.com/davbren David Gross

      unfortunately this is where we’re headed. Its pretty much the only way to make any cash these days.

    • http://fenryxo.cz Fenryxo

      It definitely is not a failure of the application that Grooveshark shows ads. Grooveshark has to pay bills for servers, traffic, licenses, …

      • http://www.cranked.me/ Gary

        What’s the point of introducing a security risk by adding an extra (untrusted) ppa, installing the application and then listening to music while watching ads if I can already use Grooveshark with my browser, and have these ads blocked?

        • http://fenryxo.cz Fenryxo

          The purpose of this app is to integrate cloud music service to Linux desktop. If you don’t need/want this integration, there is no point to use this app.

          I always use my ears to listen to music, so I don’t care about ads shown in the hidden application window ;-)

          It’s definitely a security risk to use untrusted PPA, it’s up to user to decide to trust or not to trust.

        • http://twitter.com/SarcasticSloth Steven Garza

          Most likely Music Frame will be running in the background, so you won’t see the ads in the first place.

          That being said I do believe Music Frame has userscript support feel free to write your own adblock script.

    • Anonymous

      You don’t seem to understand this is Grooveshark displaying those ads, and with a premium account you get rid of them.

      • http://www.cranked.me/ Gary

        see my previous comment

  • kilian klaiber

    How many more music players do we need for linux? It’s nice, but I wish more effort were put into developing other software.

    • Anonymous

      I wouldn’t say this is a regular music player, thus it’s definitely gets an exception from the “too many music players” comment.

  • Anonymous

    What is the advantage of using this for grooveshark over just using a browser?

  • http://tomslominski.net/ Tom Slominski

    It caused my laptop to be extremely slow :/ It’s probably not the only factor, but using Grooveshark in Chrome feels more efficient.

  • Anonymous

    While on the topic of linux music apps, is there any Linux app that integrates Rdio or pandora?

  • Anonymous

    No more music apps ahhhhhhhhhh. 

  • Austin Klinker

    They should add support for Pandora too. It would become the ultimate music player then.

  • Anonymous

    After using Nuvola for quite a bit, I must say it’s absolutely fantastic. Using Grooveshark without it seems awkward!

 
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