Rhythmbox is the default music player included in Ubuntu 10.10 and previous. It was temporarily replaced by Banshee in 11.04, but makes a comeback in 12.04.
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How do I install third-party rhythmbox plugins?
Now that the dust has settled and Rhythmbox has become (again) the default music-media player in 12.04 & 12.10, I'm interested in extending its functionality.
For example, the default lyric ...
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How to sync songs in Rhythmbox with an iPod
I can sync them with Banshee but in Rhythmbox (Am starting again to use it since it will be the default in 12.04) I can see that Rhythmbox can detect the ipod and see the songs but when I try to drag ...
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How do I change the Sound Menu's default music player?
I'm running Maverick at the moment and the default music player is Rhythmbox. It interfaces with the panel through the sound menu, so you can see it playing like this:
I know that, in Natty, ...
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Rhythmbox still plays songs after exit
Is there anyway to get Rhythmbox to stop playing the current track when it closes without first pausing/stopping the song manually?
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Why is Rhythmbox becoming the default (again)?
So, it seems with 12.04, they're switching back to Rhythmbox, after switching from Rhythmbox a year ago. I don't get why.
They say that it's because of a blocking bug in GTK3# (if I understand that ...
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How can I find duplicate songs?
The title says it all. How can I detect duplicates in my media library?
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How to add Rhythmbox controls to the sound menu?
I recently installed a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit on my notebook.
I personally prefer Rhythmbox over Banshee so I searched for and installed it from the Ubuntu Software Center. (including ...
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How to start Rhythmbox minimized?
Does anyone know how to start Rhythmbox in quiet mode?
Thanks in advance!
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How can I reset all Rhythmbox preferences and library information?
Background: I cannot figure out how to make Rhythmbox scan ONLY the folder with my music in it. I want to delete all of its settings and start over.
What do I have to do to make Rhythmbox think it's ...
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How do I force Rhythmbox to automatically organise my music files into folders?
How do I force Rhythmbox to automatically organise my music files into folders (corresponding to the artist and album) in Ubuntu 12.04 beta-1. Is this functionality currently missing from the new ...
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Rhythmbox playing without sound
I have a clean 12.04 install.
Imported my mp3's (from a windows share) into Rhythmbox and although they do appear to be playing no sounds is to be heard. Playing a radio-stream works just fine. ...
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How do you edit the “Preferred Format” settings in Rhythmbox?
In Rhythmbox's Preferences, you can change the "Preferred Format" for Music to MPEG Layer 3 Audio, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, or MPEG 4 Audio. However, despite there being a Settings button, it does not become ...
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Recording the radio streaming of Radiotray or Rhythmbox
I have checked the other questions before asking this one.
I am using radiotray for the streaming and wish to record the streams of di.fm.
I tried the trick with pulseaudio volume settings for ...
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How do I sync iPhone 4 in rhythmbox?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and I have a iPhone 4 with iOS 5.1 that I just recently jailbroke. I was wondering if there was anyway that I can sync my music to my iPhone?
Thanks!!
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Rhythmbox is missing last.fm and libre.fm like button in 12.04
I've just updated and those buttons are gone. Any ideas how I can have these buttons back?
There is a duplicated question over here but it was closed as off topic.
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Is Rhythmbox in active development?
I see this thrown around a lot: "Rhythmbox is great, but too bad it's no longer being actively developed, which is why I switched to Banshee."
Can someone please clear this up for me, because the way ...
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How to make Rhythmbox toggle between pause and play with spacebar?
When ever i press Space in Rhythmbox the song starts over instead of going on pause and when its on pause and i press Space the song starts over again instead of resuming from where it left of.
So my ...
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How to browse by album art in rhythmbox?
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 ...
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Zune + Ubuntu, What are my options?
I have a Zune HD (don't ask).
Is there any alternative to using this in Ubuntu besides creating a virtual Windows environment (in say Virtual Box or VMWare) and running the Zune software there?
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No sound after resuming from suspend?
When my system gets to suspension while the song being played, and got resumed from the suspension, I found my Rhythmbox player running but no sound coming even from the system. I had to suspend it ...
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How to enable UPnP coherence plugin in rhythmbox 2.95?
In Ubuntu 10.10 I was using the rhythmbox-plugin-coherence package and I was happy to stream music from rhythmbox to our internet radio box. But in 11.10 (64Bit) I can not find the package anymore, ...
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Where is music stored in Rhythmbox?
So, Rhythmbox completely broke my ipod and corrupted the music libraries. While I was trying to fix it, I made the mistake of (accidentally) removing all the music via right-click->remove from my ...
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How do I downgrade rhythmbox v2.98?
I've been testing out the new WebUpd8 PPA for Rhythmbox which I used to upgrade from Rhythmbox v2.97 to v2.98.
However, when I added this PPA, when using my favourite plugins replaygain and ...
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Rhythmbox not saving the album art permanently
I run ubuntu 10.10 and use rhythmbox (version 0.13.1) regularly with the albumartsearch plugin installed. However when I change the album art it is only temporary. On moving to the next song it ...
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Access Windows 7 Media Streaming
I wish to be able to see and stream music to my Ubuntu 10.04 installation through Rhythmbox. I have enabled media streaming in Windows 7 and I can see Rhythmbox as an allowed device.
I have installed ...
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Rhythmbox's not playing music from network share
Rhythmbox's not playing music from network share. When you move seekbar, you can hear sound for half a second though, but then it stops.
Plays music just fine from mounted drives. Also tested with ...
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How can I set up multiple libraries in Rhythmbox?
I'd like to separate my music into multiple libraries to better organize it, but anything I can find seems to be outdated. Does it still require hacky solutions to do this or is it easier now?
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Where did Rhythmbox's visualizations in 12.04 go?
I cannot seem to find the visualization options in Rhythmbox anymore. Were they left out from inclusion in Ubuntu 12.04?
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Where are my rhythmbox library folders stored?
I tried
rm ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/ ~/.cache/rhythmbox/ ~/.gconf/apps/rhythmbox/ -r
but that only ended up removing the database. I want to remove some folders in particular. How do I do that? Are ...
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How to integrate Rhythmbox to play Internet Radio?
I have been very fond of the sound menu integration that can be done via Last.fm and the present radio stations. I wanted to know a way to listen to JazzRadio or for that matter any radio on the ...
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How to assign hot-keys to control Rhythmbox?
I wish to assign Ctrl+Space to rhythmbox play/pause but cannot figure out how to do so using the keyboard menu, for whenever I try, it is disabled for i do not know what i am meant to type into the ...
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Can Empathy show what Rhythmbox track I'm listening to?
There was an MSN Messenger feature that would show what track you were currently listening to.
I'm using Rhythmbox as my music player.
Does Empathy have this feature?
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Listening to, and changing tracks on another PC on a LAN?
Rhythmbox runs on a PC in my network, and I was wondering if it would be possible to change the track, volume etc from my pc? Both PCs run 10.04.
Thanks.
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How do I edit the list of music library locations in Rhythmbox?
I previously set Rhythmbox to include a few different locations.
Now following changes to my directory structure, I'd like to reflect these changes in Rhythmbox. But when I go to "Library Location", I ...
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Is it possible to play from Google Play (Music) in Rhythmbox?
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to access Google Player (former Google Music) directly from Rhythembox?
Nuvola Player is nice but standalone player. Is there a similar Rhythembox plugin or any current ...
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Importing RadioTray radio stations into Rhythmbox
RadioTray icon applet is pretty neat and comes with a variety of predefined radio stations ordered by categories. To those I also added some additional local (Israeli) radio stations and ended up with ...
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Rhythmbox controls are missing from the SoundMenu
I Re-installed ubuntu two weeks ago and at the start I could control Rhythmbox from the sound menu, but now it disappeared and i don't know how to bring it back.
In "Sound prefernces...", in the ...
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Sound doesn't work in Unity, but does in Ubuntu Classic
I recently updated to 11.04, and it seems rhythmbox broke for me in the update, as well as the new default, banshee. When I try to play a song, the play button changes to a pause button, but nothing ...
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How can I listen to a specific signal in Rhythmbox?
I want to listen to the key press of lets say Ctrl+W in Rhythmbox, and call a functions if that happens. How can I do that in Python ?
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How do I install mp3pro support?
I've been listening to some of my older music today and I've just come across an album that I ripped back in my 'mp3pro days'... Needless to say it doesn't sound very good, which I'm guessing is ...
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Philips GoGear detected by Rhythmbox but not Banshee
I got a Philips GoGear Vibe and wanted to use it in Ubuntu 12.04. I was also using Banshee instead of Rhythmbox, and wanted to keep doing that. The problem is that Banshee doesn't detect the device, ...
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Rhythmbox is missing last.fm like button [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Rhythmbox is missing last.fm and libre.fm like button in 12.04
So, Rhythmbox used to have buttons for "loving song" and "banning song" for the last.fm stream. This is ...
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Rhythmbox build error
I'm trying to build Rhythmbox in order to fix a bug, but am running into problems doing so.
I downloaded the source using sudo apt-get source rhythmbox afterwhich I ran configure with the argument ...
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Unable to seek in MP3 encoded files
When I try to play any MP3 encoded song in Rhythmbox, the seek bar is disabled. Upon trying to play the same files in Totem, the same problem appears again.
I think that the problem started after ...
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How do I re-add Rhythmbox to the sound menu?
A strange think happened in rhythmbox, after a crash, rhythmbox doesn't shows anymore in the sound menu.
If I switch to a guess session, it is OK.
I tried to reinstall, but it didn't solve.
Ubuntu ...
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iPhone 4s + Rhythmbox = Fail (12.10, ios 6.1.3) [duplicate]
(This is emphatically not a double of this: How to sync songs in Rhythmbox with an iPod. I've tried everything there.)
Can't seem to control how to add music to an iPhone. It will either:
Try to ...
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Can't Add Podcast Episodes to Ipod After Upgrading to 12.04
Since upgrading to 12.04, dragging podcast episodes doesn't move them onto my ipod.
Adding songs from the library works fine, but if I do it with a podcast nothing happens.
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RhythmBox only plays downloaded music when the Archive Manager is open
Ubuntu 12.04.
I have downloaded some music (They're in a ZIP format, by the way), and they play fine, and the NotifyOSD comes up, as usual. But when I play the music, the Archive Manager HAS to stay ...
