We got the Jazz
The Rhythmbox addin for GNOME Do just got a whole lot sexier.
Search by album name.
Search by artist.
Thanks to the transparency of GNU/Linux and the GNOME environment as open systems, it took me about 40 minutes to write this addin. There were no iTunes database files to decrypt, or undocumented technologies to contend with. All I had to do was read the Rhythmbox database file in ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml. Mono made the rest very easy.
A beautiful GTK icon is shown if the cover art is missing.
6 Comments
November 12th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
any hopes for a similar addin for Banshee?
November 12th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Of course! I much prefer Banshee to Rhythmbox, but a Rhythmbox addin was just too easy not to whip up. Banshee’s new media server dbus backend will make it really easy to make a super-powerful addin for GNOME Do. This Rhythmbox addin is really very limited.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:39 am
Why with my Gnome Go, the album arts never show? Do I need special settings with Rhythmbox?
December 6th, 2007 at 10:49 am
You can’t see album art because Rhythmox hasn’t downloaded it yet. Rhythmbox only downloads album art once you’ve played the album, so as you play more music in Rhythmbox, more cover art will be available to Do.
December 7th, 2007 at 9:53 am
Oh I see, thanks … But I noticed rhythmbox only writes information of those albumart downloaded from web into rhythmdb.xml, while I actually have many ablumarts saved as “cover.jpg” in those album folders … therefore I have quite a lot of albums showing no cover in gnome-do, until I delete those cover.jpg’s and let rhythmbox download them again.
December 7th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
I didn’t know about this “cover.jpg” feature. Maybe I will update the Rhythmbox plugin in a few weeks to look for those files.
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