Finding cover art automatically

Actually, found the plugin mpdcover but had no luck compiling it. Tried sonata and it finds cover art OOTB so using that for now.

If you configured the mdcover plugin it should work.
It is slightly more aggressive in fiding the art from the directory then sonata does.
Also gmpc is more resource friendly then sonata.

Further
* Cover amazon
* Last.fm
Can fetch art for you online.

Hi Qball Cow,

I would still like to use gmpc but may not have any luck with it for now. I installed mpd and gmpc via the ubuntu repositories and when running configure it complains about a lot of libraries that are not the latest version. I tried "cheating" and edited the configure script and changed the version numbers, but no such luck. Is there any reason the plugin requires the very latest in libraries? Are there features not available with older versions?

Jay

The plugin of the versions indeed need to match the version of gmpc.
Gmpc has a slow release cycle (real life and so) and allot changes between version.

If you have gmpc 0.15.0, you can get the plugins needed here: http://download.sarine.nl/download/gmpc-0.15.0/
You need to install libmpd-dev and gmpc-dev to be able to compile the plugins.
Also make sure the plugin is installed in the same "prefix" as gmpc, so on stock ubuntu:
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

If you restart gmpc, you should see it in the preferences pane, and there allows you to set the music dir.

For the next release (0.16.0) I hope to find somebody that is willing to create packages of gmpc plugins for ubuntu/debian.

(version 0.15.5 plugins are here: http://download.sarine.nl/download/gmpc-0.15.5/)

Ah, sweet! I'll give that a try now.

Im not sure exactly how to create packages other than using checkinstall, would that help at all?

Jay

Cheers for the help!

Made and installed the plugin and it works well, very impressed! Nice work.
Now to have a look at the rest. ;)

Jay