Tomahawk 0.5 released with refreshed look and new features (PPA available)
Tomahawk is a fancy music player designed with track-centric approach, gathering (if configured) songs from numerous both online and offline sources, presenting the user a handy interface where the actual song availability is more important that the its actual source, consequently, the user can utilize the power of Youtube, Spotify, 4Shared, Ex.fm, etc in order to access preferred music content.
Tomahawk has been updated to version 0.5, bringing polish, new and reorganized features, bug fixes and more.
The new 0.5 release comes with a new red-ish minimalistic icon, representing both its main icon and its appindicator.
The toolbar gained a full state with Go back one page and Go forward one page, navigation icons that are to quickly shift between "pages", action "backed" by the newly top-right positioned search bar.
Discovering new tracks is now as easy as navigating to the new New Releases category, where filterable (blues, country, folk, jazz, latin, etc) fancy albums are exposed.
Sharing the currently played song via Twitter can be easily accomplished via the sharing widget on the bottom controlbar, with handy support to further typing and predefined tweet form (such as Listening to customsong by customartist).
Configuring Tomahawk 0.5 is to be performed under Tomahawk-->Settings-->Configure Tomahawk with an enriched Services category that incorporates account configurations (Twitter, Google, Jabber), as well as resolvers (SoundCloud, Last.fm, Grooveshark, Jamendo, etc).
The 0.5 version, along with the mentioned additions and bug fixes, comes with small yet numerous polished parts that are to further please the eye, like for instance, the squared pattern from Recently Played Tracks.
How do we install Tomahawk 0.5?
Add the following official PPA (Precise, Quantal)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tomahawk/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tomahawk
Worth mentioning
If, after the 0.5 version is installed, the application doesn't start when launched, type in a terminal
sudo apt-get install libattica0.4
