Rhythmbox CoverArt Browser Plugin Gets New Coverflow View, Rhythmbox 2.99 Support

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-browser">CoverArt Browser</a> is a Rhythmbox plugin that lets you browse and play your music library using an album art view.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/rhythmbox-coverartbrowser.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhIVHOEBIIVCWa958MhIhqqOSYi9TDFtTwHmBU6WJwmcQHA13svSY2H7S9sREFZ7Qu5AKJf8OIufpZGK9ZJdc9DiVsW6RumRj5aao42DkMhzRQTZOjPV449_wnkfA8NrFkUw8LYja1Mf8/s320/rhythmbox-coverartbrowser.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The plugin comes with many useful features which basically transform Rhythmbox into a new music player: </b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>configurable search (all fields, albums, artists, etc.);</li><li>display all your music or only the play queue, top rated, recently added or recently played;</li><li>it integrates with another plugin to allow downloading cover art for all your albums;</li><li>export albums art in the tracks, useful to display cover art on mobile devices;</li><li>an optional tracks pane is available so you can easily view the tracks available in an album;</li><li>can be set to start automatically when launching Rhythmbox;</li><li>higly customizable;</li><li>more!</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest <b>CoverArt Browser 0.9</b>, released today, brings important changes like a stylish <b>new coverflow view which supports 4 different styles</b>:</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/rhythmbox-coverartbrowser-flow1.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Rhythmbox CoverArt flow" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/rhythmbox-coverartbrowser-flow1_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coverflow (regular)</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/rhythmbox-coverartbrowser-flow2.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Rhythmbox CoverArt flow" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/rhythmbox-coverartbrowser-flow2_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coverflow (vertical)</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/rhythmbox-coverartbrowser-flow3.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Rhythmbox CoverArt flow" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/rhythmbox-coverartbrowser-flow3_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carousel</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/rhythmbox-coverartbrowser-flow4.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Rhythmbox CoverArt flow" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/rhythmbox-coverartbrowser-flow4_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roundabout</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">All the coverflow styles are customizable and you can set the width, scale, show or hide caption, select the maximum number of covers to display or background color:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/rhythmbox-coverart-preferenes.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Rhythmbox CoverArt flow" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/rhythmbox-coverart-preferenes_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Besides the new coverflow view, CoverArt Browser 0.9 also comes with the following changes:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">support for Rhythmbox 2.99;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">support for Python 3 for the upcoming Rhythmbox 3.0; </li><li style="text-align: justify;">advanced options to control the icon-view spacing and selection padding - this can give a very different look to the plugin;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">toggle buttons to switch view as well as new Properties button;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">access preferences for both Search and Browser plugins via Properties button;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">play random albums from your current playlist & search filters;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">quick filter track artists via Properties button;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">track view can be toggled automatically on click as well as configured to manually open.</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Rhythmbox python3 support is not available in the PPA packages to to use this plugin with Rhythmbox 3.0, you must install the plugin manually!</b></div><br /><h2>Install Rhythmbox CoverArt Browser plugin in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu Saucy, Raring, Quantal and Precise users can install the latest Rhythmbox CoverArt Browser plugin by using fossfreedom's PPA</b>, which by the way, contains many <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/08/rhythmbox-third-party-plugins-ubuntu-ppa.html">other useful Rhythmbox plugins</a>. Add the PPA and install the plugin using the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fossfreedom/rhythmbox-plugins<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-coverart-browser</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">After the installation, launch Rhythmbox and enable CoverArt Browser from the Rhythmbox Plugins dialog.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For <b>other Linux distributions,</b> see the installation instructions available on the CoverArt Browser <a class="external" href="https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-browser">GitHub</a> page.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Report any bugs you may encounter @ <a class="external" href="https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-browser/issues">GitHub</a>. </div>

Rhythmbox CoverArt Browser Plugin Gets New Coverflow View, Rhythmbox 2.99 Support

CoverArt Browser is a Rhythmbox plugin that lets you browse and play your music library using an album art view. The plugin comes with many...

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