• configurable search (all fields, albums, artists, etc.);
• sort albums by: name, artist, year, rating, genre or decades;
• display all music or play queue, top rated, recently added or recently played;
• can automatically fetch album covers for all your albums;
• more.

The latest CoverArt Browser Rhythmbox plugin comes with the following additions:

• export albums and embed cover art in the album tracks – useful to display cover art on mobile devices;
• the cover art search is now a separate plugin;
• new light & dark theme buttons to complement light & dark desktop themes
• optional flat-button toolbar style;
• use album and album-artist sort order tags for sorting if these values are utilized;
• play from Cover-view and Track view instead of queuing & playing;
• allow user-defined genre names to be created mapped against default system genre icons;
• allow user-defined genre icons to be displayed. These can override system genre icons if required;
• support for other plugins via right-click menu options in a similar manner as the Library Browser.

Install CoverArt Browser for Rhythmbox in Ubuntu

Ubuntu users can use fossfreedom’s PPA (which has many other useful Rhythmbox plugins) to install the latest CoverArt Browser Rhythmbox plugin, by using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fossfreedom/rhythmbox-plugins
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-coverart-browser

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