Rhythmbox Coverart Browser hits v2.1

I’m pleased to announce v2.1 (code name “Penfold”) of my Rhythmbox plugin Coverart Browser…

Highlights:

1. Support for my other plugin alternative-toolbar (see the screenshot above).  For me this completes the look-and-feel from my ideal media player.
2. Ability to add an album to immediately play after the current album (“play next”).  This even works for tracks – you can select tracks to play after the currently playing track
3. Quick and easy method to view what you are playing
4. One click play now takes into account your tile style
5. view, save and zoom your coverart

At the same time, my linked art search plugin Coverart Search Providers has been released.  This has even better embedded art finding abilities – using the power of GStreamer as well as the new upstream python3-mutagen library. N.B. python3-mutagen is a new dependency, python3-mutagenx dependency has been removed

Full list of changes for this release:

• Allow switching between coverart-browser and the coverart-playlist sources via picture buttons on each source
• tighter integration with Rhythmbox – addition of select and play using Rhythmbox’s own toolbar play button
• Support the alternative-toolbar capability to hide/show the coverart-toolbar
• Support for GTK 3.14
• Support for the upcoming release of Rhythmbox (3.2?)
• Single click icon display position changes consistently depending upon the cover-tile style (shadow/no shadow etc.)
• view/zoom/save the chosen cover – hover over the coverart on the track pane to reveal
• coverart information in tile-view can be now left/centre & right aligned
• Double click track & cover pane handle to open full height or to close
• Play Next (album)- add the selected album(s) to be the next album after the current playing album
• Play Next (track)- add the selected track(s) to be the next track after the current playing track
• Track Artist and Artist Information Panes can be opened and closed via double-click of the pane-handle
• Bottom Track & Cover Pane has more space – the expander & label has been removed
• Tidied display – visible pane handles disappear after the plugin has been run 5 times
• Add ability to resize Icon-view with CTRL+mouse wheel scroll
• Translated into 25 languages and locales
• for developers – doxygen documentation: http://fossfreedom.github.io/coverart-browser/classes.html

I’m already planning for the next release – code named “Colonel K”.  I’m more than happy to receive any contributions – if you are looking to dip your coding toes – feel free to drop by the GitHub project – I’m always willing to help and guide 🙂

Major thanks to the Launchpad Translators – there are better more complete translations this time around. I’m always looking for translators to help out – just drop by the Launchpad Project.

As always – would welcome feedback.  Please drop a comment. Better still, say thanks though the wonderful Flattr – or buy me a beer via Paypal

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To install – if you are using my PPA then just update your sources as normal.

If you are not – why not! 🙂

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fossfreedom/rhythmbox-plugins
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-coverart-browser

The PPA has packages for 14.04, 14.10 & 15.04.  See this article for a full list of what these packages are.

You don’t like PPA’s … or are not using a Ubuntu based distro, then you must install both coverart-browser and coverart-search-providers. Full instructions in the README’s