How to install Harmony Music Player Application on Linux Mint 18.3
To install Harmony Music Player Application on Linux Mint 18.3
Harmony is an open-source music player with a sleek interface, available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Harmony Music Player is packed with several features and some of them are listed as follows.
Features
- Update Electron to 1.4.10
- Disable auto refresh on start -> add an option to enable it
- Add choice for tray icon (black, white or normal)
- Add icons for tray menu buttons
- Larger min-width/min-height
Installing Harmony Music Player is very simple and this tutorial will be showing you how to install Harmony music player on Linux Mint 18.3.
Installing Harmony Music Player
First, make sure you update the system repository by making use of the following command.
linuxhelp user # apt-get update
Get:1 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease [11.5 kB]
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Ign:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease
Get:4 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release [24.2 kB]
Get:5 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release.gpg [819 B]
Get:6 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial/partner amd64 Packages [3,128 B]
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]
Get:8 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial/partner i386 Packages [3,120 B]
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Get:27 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages [572 kB]
Get:28 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe Translation-en [249 kB]
Get:29 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/multiverse amd64 Packages [16.2 kB]
Get:30 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/multiverse i386 Packages [15.3 kB]
Get:31 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/multiverse Translation-en [8,076 B]
Get:32 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe amd64 Packages [7,104 B]
Get:33 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe i386 Packages [7,080 B]
Get:34 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe Translation-en [3,844 B]
Fetched 5,610 kB in 36s (152 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Once the system is updated, you need to download the latest and stable package for installing Harmony Music Player.
linuxhelp user # wget https://github.com/vincelwt/harmony/releases/download/v0.4.3/harmony-0.4.3-amd64.deb
--2018-04-05 22:24:14-- https://github.com/vincelwt/harmony/releases/download/v0.4.3/harmony-0.4.3-amd64.deb
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.253.113, 192.30.253.112
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.253.113|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com/45073510/59366950-b73f-11e6-8629-381e2a8e1d9b?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256& X-Amz-
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Connecting to github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com (github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com)|52.216.129.251|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 32892358 (31M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ harmony-0.4.3-amd64.deb’
harmony-0.4.3-amd64.deb 100%[=============================================> ] 31.37M 1.12MB/s in 31s
2018-04-05 22:24:58 (1021 KB/s) - ‘ harmony-0.4.3-amd64.deb’ saved [32892358/32892358]
Once it is downloaded, you shall proceed with the installation of Harmony by executing the following command.
linuxhelp user # gdebi harmony-0.4.3-amd64.deb Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading state information... Done Requires the installation of the following packages: libnotify-bin Listen to music from Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Play Music or your local disk, Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libnotify-bin amd64 0.7.6-2svn1 [6584 B] Fetched 6584 B in 0s (0 B/s) Selecting previously unselected package libnotify-bin. (Reading database ... 219622 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libnotify-bin_0.7.6-2svn1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libnotify-bin (0.7.6-2svn1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Setting up libnotify-bin (0.7.6-2svn1) ... Selecting previously unselected package harmony. (Reading database ... 219629 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack harmony-0.4.3-amd64.deb ... Unpacking harmony (0.4.3-123) ... Setting up harmony (0.4.3-123) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22+linuxmint1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
After installing Harmony Music Player, go to your Linux Mint search field and type harmony in it.
Sign in to select the music player application, after get playing music files from the chosen application
You can open the Harmony
With this, the method to install Harmony Music Player Application on Linux Mint 18.3
Q
how to remove the harmony music player form linuxmint ?
A
To remove the harmony music player form linuxmint use the following command as
"# dpkg -r harmony-0.4.3-amd64.deb ".
"# dpkg -r harmony-0.4.3-amd64.deb ".
Q
How to check version of Harmony music player?
A
To check the version of harmony music player
use the following command
"# harmony -V"
use the following command
"# harmony -V"
Q
how to install Harmony on Arch Linux?
A
To install Harmony on Arch Linux execute the command as follow "# yaourt harmony-player".
Q
Does Harmony auto-update?
A
No. It will alert you when a new version is available
Update Electron to 1.4.10
Disable auto refresh on start -> add an option to enable it
Add choice for tray icon (black, white or normal)
Add icons for tray menu buttons
Larger min-width/min-height