A free, simple and easy to use music player application for the GNOME desktop environment
Lollypop is a completely free and open source and freely distributed graphical application implemented in Python/GTK+ for the GNOME desktop environment, designed from the offset to act as a simple and intuitive music player software.
Features at a glance
Key features include support for reading MP3, MP4, FLAC and OGG Vorbis audio files, support for browsing album covers, artists and music genre, built-in search, party mode, album art downloader, ReplayGain support, context artist view, as well as support for queuing songs.
Its graphical user interface is modern, easy to use, intuitive and follows the GNOME HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) specifications, which means that it integrates perfectly into the GNOME 3 desktop environment.
Getting started with Lollypop
If you’re using one of the distributions of Linux (or a derivative of them) mentioned in the next section, you can easily install Lollypop from the main software repositories using the built-in package manager. Otherwise, you must compile the program from sources.
After installation, open the application from the main menu of your desktop environment. Lollypop will open maximized. From the toolbar you can access the program’s preferences, edit the party mode, update the music library, control the playlist, view genres, activate the playlist, search tracks, enable party mode, or shuffle songs.
Under the hood and supported Linux distributions
Taking a look under the hood of the Lollypop software, we can notice that it is written entirely in the Python programming language and uses the cross-platform GTK+ GUI toolkit for its graphical user interface. The python-cairo, python-sqlite, python-dbus, python-mutagen and python-gobject modules are required for it to work.
Officially supported GNU/Linux distributions include Arch Linux, Fedora, openSUSE, Debian and Ubuntu. However, Ubuntu users who use the Unity interface must disable the overlay scrollbars to make the program work properly (more details can be found on the project’s website (see link below). It supports 64-bit and 32-bit hardware platforms.
