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Manck
Asked: 2012-03-12 13:12:28 +0800 CST

How to browse by album art in rhythmbox?

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How do I browse album covers in Rhythmbox?

I'm looking for how to browse album art in newer versions of Rhythmbox

I tried Rhythmarty plug in but I think it's very old so it can't be used, it does not appear on the plug in list.

Other options require gnome 2 and I use Gnome-Shell.

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3 Answers

  1. 12.04 and later

    Browse your coverart albums in Rhythmbox v2.96 and later

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    first the disclaimer - I am the co-author to this plugin!

    How it works:

    • Click the new CoverArt source button (left hand side of screen)
    • Albums are displayed as clickable buttons containing their album cover
    • Right click menu option to play, queue & search for cover art for an album.

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    • to search for missing covers

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    • locale support is also available to display text in your native language - more details on how to help with the translation is on GitHub.

    For full instructions see the projects Wiki:

    For instructions on how to download great coverart:

    how to install

    The installation instructions cover the installation of each individual plugin. If you prefer a PPA method skip to the bottom:

    for rhythmbox 2.96 to 2.99.1:

    sudo apt-get install git gettext python-mako python-lxml

    for rhythmbox 3.0 or compiled from git:

    sudo apt-get install git gettext python3-mako python3-lxml

    Then install the coverart browser plugin for rhythmbox version 2.96 to 2.99.1:

    rm -rf ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/plugins/coverart_browser
git clone https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-browser.git
cd coverart-browser
./install.sh

    To install the coverart browser plugin for rhythmbox version 3.0 and later:

    rm -rf ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/plugins/coverart_browser
git clone https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-browser.git
cd coverart-browser
./install.sh --rb3

    To install the coverart search-providers plugin for rhythmbox 2.96 - 2.99:

    sudo apt-get install git gettext python-mako python-mutagen python-requests

    for rhythmbox 3.0 or compiled from git:

    sudo apt-get install git gettext python3-mako python3-requests

    Then install the coverart search-providers plugin:

    rm -rf ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/plugins/coverart_search_providers
git clone https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-search-providers.git
cd coverart-search-providers

    For rhythmbox 2.96 to 2.99:

    ./install.sh

    For rhythmbox 3.0 or compiled from git:

    ./install.sh --rb3

    Alternative installation - I've added this to my Rhythmbox PPA:

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  2. 11.04 and previous

    I found another one rhythmbox-cover-art-browser

    The plugin enables to display a cover grid view in the middle pane of rhythmbox a button enables to fetch missing covers double clicking on a cover plays the album drag and drop of album art supported

    Download:

    here. Give it a try though I don't use Rhythmbox So I couldn't test it.

    Preview:

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  3. 10.10

    I do not have the current version of Rhythmbox, but in my older version I got it to work. Confirm that you:

    1. Put the artdisplay_browser folder (extracted from the download) in the /usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins folder. Note you may have to be root to add it, I also set permissions to 755 for the files and folder.

    2. In Rhythmbox open the plugins menu and select the artdisplay_browser plugin to activate.

    And it works very nice for me!

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