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rhythmbox dont show album covers

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On the bottom left side there use to be a window that showed the album cover and when the song changed it would pop up in a bar on the top right)showing the artist and cover that stopped showing the cover too. And the plug in to search for album art is on.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; apt-cache policy rhythmbox

Thankd

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Bob (smith13) said : 		#2

$ lsb_release -a; uname -a; apt-cache policy rhythmbox
LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch:core-4.1-ia32:core-4.1-noarch:security-4.0-ia32:security-4.0-noarch:security-4.1-ia32:security-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 13.10
Release: 13.10
Codename: saucy
Linux bob-desktop 3.11.0-19-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 11 18:48:32 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
rhythmbox:
  Installed: 3.0.1-1ubuntu5~ppa0
  Candidate: 3.0.1-1ubuntu5~ppa0
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.1-1ubuntu5~ppa0 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jacob/media/ubuntu/ saucy/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.99.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main i386 Packages

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Then you are using a PPA. I suggest you contact the PPA maintainer to report the issue.

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Bob (smith13) said : 		#4

how do I do that and what is a PPA?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

a PPA is a third party source of packages. The version of rhythmbox from the official Ubuntu repos is 2.99 but you have added the ppa.launchpad.net/jacob/media/ubuntu/ and gotten a later version of the package. This is a user done thing and is not default behavior in Ubuntu.

Whoever has compiled and packaged the rhythmbox version you have has either removed the functionality, or there is a bug with the package itself.

You have been to this page and added the extra source:
https://launchpad.net/~jacob/+archive/media

There ar links on the page you can use to contact the packager.

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Bob (smith13) said : 		#6

I went to this page because I was looking for a fix, it was not working on 2.99 eater so when I found this update I did it thinking it was just out of date and stopped working.

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/10/install-rhythmbox-30-in-ubuntu-1310-or.html

Should I detest it and go back to 2.99 the page you sent me, I have no clue on what to do with all that stuff.

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Bob (smith13) said : 		#7

I found out they're no longer doing the album art in a window on the bottom of the player. 2014