Rhythmbox is your one-stop multimedia application, supporting a music library, multiple playlists, internet radio, and more.

Rhythmbox is free software, licensed under the GNU GPL.

Our IRC channel is #gnome-rhythmbox on Libera Chat.

You can also post questions about Rhythmbox under the Applications category on GNOME Discourse.

Rhythmbox requires the following packages:

• A working GNOME platform including glib 2.66, gtk+ 3.16, and libsoup 3
• meson 0.59 or newer
• totem-plparser 3.2.0 or newer
• GStreamer 1.4.0. or newer and associated plugin packages
• libpeas 0.7.3 or newer
• json-glib
• libxml2 2.7.8 or newer
• tdb 1.2.6 or newer
• gettext 0.20 or newer

Rhythmbox can also make use of the following packages:

• pygobject 3.0.0 or newer (for python plugin support)
• GUdev 143 or newer (for iPod and generic audio player support)
• libgpod 0.7.92 or newer (for iPod support)
• libnotify 0.7 or newer
• libbrasero-media 2.31.5 or newer
• libdmapsharing 3.9.11 or newer
• libmtp 0.3.0 or newer
• libsecret 0.18 or newer
• grilo 0.3.1 or newer
• itstool (for documentation)
• gi-docgen (for API documentation)

Many package managers provide a way to install all the build dependencies for a package, such as dnf builddep or apt-get build-dep, which will install almost all of the above. The requirements may have changed slightly between the version packaged in the distribution and the current development version, so you might have to install some additional packages.

  % meson setup _build -Dprefix=$PWD/_install    # prepare the build
  % ninja -C _build                              # build Rhythmbox
  % ninja -C _build install                      # install Rhythmbox

This installs Rhythmbox to the _install directory under the source tree. The executable to run will then be _install/bin/rhythmbox. Before you can run it from there, you will also need to set an environment variable to load schemas from the install location:

  % export GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR=$PWD/_install/share/glib-2.0/schemas
  % _install/bin/rhythmbox

By default, the build will enable optional features if the packages they require are installed. To check which options are available and which are enabled, run meson configure _build.

More detailed installation instructions can be found in meson's website.

Bugs should be reported to the GitLab repository. (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/rhythmbox/issues) You will need to create an account for yourself.

Please read the GNOME bug reporting guidelines, documented in the GNOME Project Handbook