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Mahmoud
Asked: 2013-01-31 14:26:22 +0800 CST

How do I change Rhythmbox's visible column order?

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How to change Rhythmbox's Visible Columns Order instead of "Title - Genre - Artist - Album" to be "Title - Artist - Album - Genre" ?

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  1. Rhythmbox does not have this capability built in. It is a request that's been hanging around since 2003.

    However, Rhythmbox does have the ability to include external plugin modules - these provide extra capabilities and because of Rhythmbox's rich API allows those modules to actually change core Rhythmbox capabilities.

    Thus - this is what I've done. I've adapted my plugin called alternative-toolbar to include just this capability - you can now drag by the column header to any position you required.

    before & after… enter image description here Artist has been moved to the more logical position after the title & the genre has been moved from the end to a more prominent position.

    To install this, use the package rhythmbox-plugin-alternative-toolbar from my PPA as explained in this Q&A.

    Alternatively, hop over onto the project website and install via Git or stable release.

    In all cases you need v0.16 or later.

    Source for this answer is my blog.

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