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Josh Berger
Asked: 2019-01-17 08:57:12 +0800 CST

No thumbnails for mp3 files in 18.04 (Nautilus)

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When I edit a music file in mp3 format, I insert an image with easytag. When I play the file, the multimedia player (vlc, rhythmbox, smplayer...) does show me the cover of the file that I inserted previously. However, in nautilus the covers don't appear, in KDE with Dolphin I don't have problems, with Cinnamon and nemo neither, it only happens in nautilus with Gnome Shell. Can someone tell me if I'm missing a file or something or how to fix the problem?

nautilus gnome-shell thumbnails mp3-tag nautilus-extensions

1 Answers

  1. I did the following:

    sudo apt-get install ffmpeg ffmpegthumbnailer gstreamer1.0-libav totem

    if as a result of executing this your thumbnails don't start appearing immediately, then try the following:

    nautilus -q

    (This will kill the nautilus file manager, so then restart it by opening "files".)

    If that does not work either, then try logging out and then back in.

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