#coverart-browser v2.0

Browse your coverart albums in Rhythmbox v3 and later.

##Authors

• asermax asermax@gmail.com, website - https://github.com/asermax

• fossfreedom foss.freedom@gmail.com, website - https://github.com/fossfreedom

##Summary: whats new in this release

• Compact & Full track view toggle option:
  1. Compact: fixed track view showing the key album track fields & ratings together with an enlarged album cover
  2. Full: Standard track view configurable via the preferences window
• Smart continuous playlist: Play Similar Artists as recommended by EchoNest
• Smart continuous playlist: Play Similar Genres as recommended by EchoNest
• Smart continuous playlist: Play Similar Tracks as recommended by LastFM
• New optional theme: darker toolbar icons by the graphics artist jrbastien
• New subtle hover, play & queue icons by the graphics artist jrbastien
• Introduce more modern look & feel through subtle animations
• Views button ("…") now can navigate to Play Queue. Allows navigation of key views without the side-bar (F9) being visible
• Artist & Album information pane with LastFM & EchoNest data
• Artist & Album information is fully localised (in your native language) if LastFM returns information in your locale
• Information pane can be made visible or hidden by dragging the pane-handle
• Track Artist Filter and Artist & Album Information panes individually displayed per view
• Support Jump To Playing CTRL+J to scroll to the playing album
• Follow playing song option automatically selects playing album
• Custom Genres are now saved in an alternative folder location to survive re-installation of the plugin
• Search Filter by Composer
• Introduce type-ahead Search filtering to improve searching usability
• Single click to append album to list of playing albums
• Right-click to append album to list of playing albums
• View and modify the list of album tracks being played
• Optional support for SmallWindow plugin - allows Rhythmbox to be toggled between its standard application window and its smaller counterpart
• Translated into 24 languages and locales
• for developers - doxygen documentation: http://fossfreedom.github.io/coverart-browser/classes.html

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 IMPORTANT: For GTK 3.14 users (Fedora 21/Arch etc) please look at fossfreedom#338 first

for debian & debian-based distros such as Ubuntu & Mint:

sudo apt-get install git gettext python3-mako python3-lxml python3-gi-cairo python3-cairo gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad rhythmbox-plugins

for fedora and similar:

sudo yum install git gettext python3-mako python3-lxml python3-cairo

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:

• https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-search-providers

For Ubuntu 14.04 and later:

V2.0 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:

• https://translations.launchpad.net/coverartbrowser

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
• Chief Tester and all-round good egg - jrbastien!

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