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Why is some album art not shown when using the Rhythmbox plugin?

Asked by chochem

I've been trying to figure out why some albums appear with cover art in Do and some don't. I would have thought that once it had been played in Rhythmbox, Rhythmbox would add the jpg to it's database and then it would appear in Do but that appears not to be the case. Anyway, that's just speculation. I would really like for all my albums to have album art attached to the search result so is there anything I can do?

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David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

The Rhythmbox plugin won't show album art for an album unless it has already been downloaded by Rhythmbox. If Do is running and a new album cover is downloaded, the Rhythmbox plugin will not pick up the change until the next time Do tells the plugins to update. You might not have updating turned on - you can enable it in Configuration Editor if you're using version 0.3.0 or later.

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David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

Solved.

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bootsbradford (mark-bradford1) said : 		#3

Where exactly do I need to turn updating on in Configuration Editor? I currently have no cover art for any albums, even though they appear in Rhythmbox.

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Brian Croom (aikoniv) said : 		#4

There seems to be an issue regarding where the plugin searches for the covers. I created a symlink to get it working.

ln -s ~/.cache/rhythmbox/covers ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/covers

Then after the plugin refreshes its data you should get the covers.

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abhiroopb (abhiroopb241088) said : 		#5

This is my problem:

I usually download cover art when I buy the album and rip it onto my hard drive. Therefore, in each of my artist/album folders I have a file called cover.jpg which has the cover. Rhythmbox (while playing the song) searches in the directory and displays it.

What the rhythmbox plugin is doing is displaying ONLY the covers that Rhythmbox has downloaded from the internet.

I tried Brian's solution and created a symlink, however, my ~/.cache/rhythmbox/cover, was empty so it didn't really help!

Since none of my covers were downloaded by rhythmbox, I essentially have no cover art in gnome-do. Any thoughts on this?

Thanks for the plugin!

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Doruk Tunaoglu (doruktuna) said : 		#6

My ~/.cache/rhythmbox/cover, was also empty, because I download cover art myself. After some trial & error I found that rhytmbox adds cover files to the cover directory when you drag the cover of an album in rhytmbox and again drop it to the same location. (Bottom left in my rhytmbox)

It is a "bad" solution which requires to do the same thing for all albums, but it is a solution that works. (We can do it once when we add a new album)

Then, gnome-do shows the album arts without the necessity of creating a symbolic link.

* Maybe someone will write a plugin for doing that automatically