Comments on: Olivia – An Elegant Music Player for Linux

By: Tom Atkinson

Tom Atkinson — Wed, 11 May 2022 03:50:41 +0000

Hi Keshav, firstly, big ups for your work on Olivia. Is there a way to install that is in-between a snap and compiling from source? I’m on KDE Plasma which is Ubuntu based AFAIK, would a .deb be good for me? Maybe I had a bad early experience with Snaps, but I find native installs are way quicker on this machine.

By: Tom Atkinson

Tom Atkinson — Tue, 10 May 2022 22:16:35 +0000

I have a policy of trying not to use Snaps where possible. They seem bad in every way although useful as a “tombstone” for statically compiled apps. My issue is everything: launch times, reliability, and the in-appropriate sandboxing for apps – like this music player – that probably need access to all your drives etc. Would be great to know if there is an alternative to using snap for this. I guess build from source. Hmmm… AppImage seems better, and/or packages made by my distro maker (currently, KDE Plasma).

By: James Harris

James Harris — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 04:20:41 +0000

So far, I’m in love with this app, but I’m finding it hard to learn all of its features.

1. I seem to recall in some “feature” list/description the words “download” and “music”. However, my search for more info on this has found nothing. So someone, please tell me where the music files are stored.

2. Please point me to the User Manual or wiki or somewhere I can just “read all about it” and learn quickly, instead of guessing, trying, and failing.

Thanks for any help.

Jim

By: Divine

Divine — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 21:21:37 +0000

In reply to Keshav Bhatt.

Will do. And great job. Cheers

By: Keshav Bhatt

Keshav Bhatt — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 19:58:54 +0000

In reply to chaek.

how you installed ?

By: chaek

chaek — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 19:57:31 +0000

In reply to Keshav Bhatt.

i have isntalled olivia on ubuntu 18.04 but it is not starting? any solution. thanks