Browse your coverart albums in Rhythmbox v3 and later.
- rhythmbox 2.96 - 2.99: https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-browser/tree/release-1.2
- asermax asermax@gmail.com, website - https://github.com/asermax
- fossfreedom foss.freedom@gmail.com, website - https://github.com/fossfreedom
- Allow switching between coverart-browser and the coverart-playlist sources via picture buttons on each source
- tighter integration with Rhythmbox - addition of select and play using Rhythmbox's own toolbar play button
- Support the alternative-toolbar capability to hide/show the coverart-toolbar
- Support for GTK 3.14
- Support for the upcoming release of Rhythmbox (3.2)
- Single click icon display position changes consistently depending upon the cover-tile style (shadow/no shadow etc.)
- view/zoom/save the chosen cover - hover over the coverart on the track pane to reveal
- coverart information in tile-view can be now left/centre & right aligned
- Double click track & cover pane handle to open full height or to close
- Play Next (album)- add the selected album(s) to be the next album after the current playing album
- Play Next (track)- add the selected track(s) to be the next track after the current playing track
- Track Artist and Artist Information Panes can be opened and closed via double-click of the pane-handle
- Bottom Track & Cover Pane has more space - the expander & label has been removed
- Tidied display - visible pane handles disappear after the plugin has been run 5 times
- Add ability to resize Icon-view with CTRL+mouse wheel scroll
- Translated into 27 languages and locales
- for developers - doxygen documentation: http://fossfreedom.github.io/coverart-browser/classes.html
- v2.1.1 - v2.1.2 - translation updates
How it works:
-
Click the new CoverArt Browser 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 coverart for an album.
-
Download Album & artist artwork via the properties toolbar button
-
https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-browser/wiki/how-to-for-version-2.0
-
https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-browser/wiki/Screenshots
How to install - Rhythmbox 3.0 and later:
N.B. for earlier Rhythmbox versions use version 1.x
Prerequisite is to use a distribution supporting GTK 3.10 or later - for example, Ubuntu 14.04, Arch or Fedora 20
for Debian & Debian-based distros such as Ubuntu & Mint:
sudo apt-get install git gettext python3-mako gir1.2-notify-0.7 python3-lxml python3-gi-cairo python3-cairo gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad rhythmbox-plugins gir1.2-webkit-3.0
for Fedora and similar:
sudo yum install git gettext python3-mako python3-lxml python3-cairo webkitgtk3
NOTE: it is assumed that you have separately installed the patent encumbered codecs found in the good/bad & ugly packages To install the plugin:
rm -rf ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/plugins/coverart_browser git clone https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-browser.git cd coverart-browser ./install.sh
To uninstall the plugin:
cd coverart-browser ./install.sh --uninstall
Note 1 - the CoverArt Browser plugin also requires installing the following plugin:
For Ubuntu 14.04 and later:
V2.1.2 is now available in my rhythmbox PPA - installation instructions in this AskUbuntu Q&A:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/147942/how-do-i-install-third-party-rhythmbox-plugins
Note - installing the package rhythmbox-plugin-coverart-browser will also install rhythmbox-plugin-coverart-search
Please help out with translating
We need you to help us translate the english text to your native language.
Don't worry - it is easier that you think. Just visit:
Remember to set your preferred language and then just submit your translation.
Credits:
- thanks to Luqman Aden laden@uwaterloo.ca for the coverart-search plugin which our cover-search pane is based upon
- thanks to Canonical for the Star widget which the ratings capabilities use
- our Translators: Launchpad Translation team - individual credits for each locale is shown in the plugin preferences dialog
- Button Icons - jrbastien for the five toolbar icon-sets
- Flow view is based upon Contentflow
Licenses:
This plugin code is released under the GPL3+ license.
Contentflow source is released under the MIT license
All translations are released under the BSD license
Genre icon-set:
Music Genre Icons by Meghn Lofing is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Contrast of the iconset has been altered as agreed by the author. Thanks Meghn!
GTK3 port of code.google.com/p/rhythmbox-cover-art-browser