how to for version 2.x
- 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.
- Choose to display using flow-view
- Choose to display using Artist-View
- multi-select albums to play, queue, add to playlists, search for covers and edit properties
- Play random albums from the current filtered list
- Use Quick Artist Filter to narrow your albums
- Right click to see and edit the properties for an album:
hint - Select multiple albums - change both the album name and album artist and all the tracks for the selected albums will be combined under one album.
- Filter your albums
- search for all missing covers
- Right click to add albums or tracks to Playlists
- Display tracks for an album
- Export albums and embed coverart
The options shown ... this will save the album tracks in the folder location requested and each track in the album will have the coverart embedded in them. At the same time, the tracks are automatically converted to MP3 format and all embedded coverart is reduced to the given size.
This is useful for phones where the coverart is not found by an external coverart provider.
- Drag and drop albums:
Click and drag the album onto your phone/playlist or your favourite file-manager
- Find additional coverart using the power of Google
Either double-click the picture or drag-and-drop to update the coverart for the selected album
tip - https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-browser/wiki/How-to-find-great-coverart
Tailor the search for album covers:
The cover-view accept images dropped from nautilus (for example) or URLs from the web.
- Display mini-toolbar options in left, main-view or right side of Rhythmbox
- Various Sort options & Filters (Playlist, Genre & Decade
- Rate whole albums to play your favourite albums & tracks from albums
Then use the Favourites Threshold in the plugin preferences...
... to enable you to play your favourite albums and tracks in those albums.
When favourites mode is invoked, all play & queue album menus use the favourite ratings value for the album to decide if the album should be played/queued.
Lets say you have given some albums a rating - 5 stars, 4 stars, 3 stars etc.
You select lots of albums, use favourites mode and then right click and choose "add to playlist" - only those albums that have a favourite rating are added to the playlist.
You can adjust this in the preferences - favourites threshold. If you set a threshold of - for example - 3 stars, then only albums rated 3 stars and higher are added.
You can fine-tune this with individual tracks - lets say you have 10 tracks in an album. You like only 5 of them. Give the 5 tracks a rating. Then you can play, queue or add just those "favourite" tracks to a playlist.
- Support of other plugins
The plugin supports various third-party plugins if they are installed and enabled.
Plugins supported are:
OpenContainingFolder, SendFirst, Send Track, LastFMExtension - Fingerprinter, FileOrganizer, lLyrics, WikipediaSearch & Repeat One Song
N.B. if NOT using my PPA then ensure you have the very latest version of the plugins installed.
- Define your own preferences:
- Define your own preferences - various general options
- Define your own preferences - various tile display options
- Define your own preferences - various flow display options
- Define your own preferences - various toolbar options
four themes are available
- Display the name and artist for covers
Configure the number of characters to display and whether to ellipsize long artist names/album names via the plugin preferences
- Find embedded covers
New plugin (Edit - Plugins - CoverArt Embedded Cover Search). When enabled, searches for cover images embedded in tracks within an album.
Tip - https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-browser/wiki/How-to-find-great-coverart
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icon-tooltip shows all the track artists for multi-artist albums
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Define your own Genre lookups
By default the plugin will try to match genres in your collection and display the correct genre-icon. There are 35 predefined genres :
| rock | country | pop | classical | world |
| bluegrass | oldies | holiday | comedy | spoken |
| jazz | blues | metal | karaoke | rap |
| ragtime | musical | dance | reggae | electronic |
| soundtrack | latin | alternative | disco | folk |
| gospel | experimental | new age | opera | anime |
| soul | workout | easy listening | hip-hop | children |
When a genre is unknown and unrecognized, the plugin will display an headset as the default icon.
Should you wish to add additional genres or to change the icons associated to them, you can do it with the alternate genre editor feature provided in the toolbar tab of the preference screen.
To add a custom icon, click on the “Load New Icon button”. This will bring a screen where you can select the icon of your choice. The recommended resolution for the icon is 128 pixels by 128 pixels.
Once the icon is loaded, it is now available for selection in the icon drop down list:
The next step is to define the alternate name for this icon and to select the icon. Once it is done, click on the “Save Changes” button located to the right of the icon drop down button.
Close and enjoy the new look!
