Browse your coverart albums in Rhythmbox v2.96 - Rhythmbox v3.0

##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 (v0.9)

• New views as described below: https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-browser/wiki/Screenshots
• Advance options to control the icon-view spacing and selection padding - this can give a very different look to the plugin
• Added support for compatibility for RB2.99
• Added support for python3 for the upcoming RB3.0
• New Coverflow view together with options to display new view in three different ways
• Toggle buttons to switch view as well as new Properties button
• Access preferences for both Search and Browswer plugins via Properties button
• Play random albums from your current playlist & search filters
• Quick filter track artists via Properties button
• Track view can be toggled automatically on click as well as configured to manually open
• Translated into 21 languages and locales
• for developers - doxygen documentation: http://fossfreedom.github.io/coverart-browser/classes.html
• v0.9.1 bug fix #214 - non display of album-info on restart of rhythmbox
• v0.9.1 - latest translations from launchpad

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 coverart for an album.

• https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-browser/wiki/how-to-for-version-0.9

How to install:

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

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

for fedora and similar:

yum install git gettext python-mako python-lxml

for opensuse

sudo zypper in git gettext-runtime python-mako python-lxml typelib-1_0-WebKit-3_0

Then install the plugin for rhythmbox version 2.96 to 2.99:

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 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

Note 1 - the CoverArt Browser plugin also requires installing the following plugin:

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

Note 2 - IMPORTANT NOTE - for some distros that do not have rhythmbox webkit support, DO NOT install your webkit library. For these distros, it is highly likely that installing webkit v3 will crash rhythmbox if this plugin is also installed and activated.

For example, opensuse 12.3 please do NOT install typelib-1_0-WebKit-3_0.

You also need to make the following change to enable the plugin to work:

gsettings set org.gnome.rhythmbox.plugins.coverart_browser webkit-support false

Note 3 - Due to an upstream Rhythmbox bug affecting RB V2.98 & V2.99 only - any changes made to the details of a track are not reflected back into the plugin. This can lead to inconsistencies. Please restart rhythmbox for these details to be correctly cached. This bug is fixed in RB3.0 and does not affect RB2.96 & RB2.97 users

For Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10, 13.04 & 13.10:

V0.9 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 three toolbar icon-sets (standard, light & dark)
• 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