How to browse by album art in rhythmbox?

Question

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.

Answer 1

12.04 and later

Browse your coverart albums in Rhythmbox v2.96 and later

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.

• Right click to search for missing covers

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

how to install

• install prerequisite packages:

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

• then install using git:

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

cd coverart-browser
sh ./install.sh
cd ../coverart-search-providers
sh ./install.sh

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

• How do I install third-party rhythmbox plugins?

Answer 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:

Answer 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!