How to browse by album art in rhythmbox?

Solution 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.

• 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.

For full instructions see the projects Wiki:

• https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-browser/wiki/How-the-plugin-works

For instructions on how to download great coverart:

• https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-browser/wiki/How-to-find-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:

• How do I install third-party rhythmbox plugins?

Solution 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:

Solution 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!