Comments on: Rhythmbox Full Screen

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:56:34 +0000

Running this on Lucid with RB 12.8 and having similar album art issues as others. Most of my art is embedded as id3tags. Doesn’t seem like the plugin is checking for that?

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:44:48 +0000

Great plugin.

Feature request: Live updates of the playlist. At parties I use the Last.fm recommendations plugin which adds new songs to a playlist dependent on the last played song.

By: Axle Unseen

Axle Unseen — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:48:25 +0000

I’m Glad the project is back!

Concerning the local installation path of the plugins, this must be:
~/.local/share/rhythmbox/plugins

I did not try ~/.gconf/apps/rhythmbox/plugins
but this seems to be a strange place for installing plugins…

By: felix

felix — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:46:48 +0000

GREAT! thx benjamin for reviving this wonderful plugin. tried it in lucid, works like charm.

however, i found two things regarding the covers which are now found in the folder itself.

1.) a set of file names (like ‘folder.*’, ‘cover.*’ or ‘album.*’) would be good because for now the wrong files are sometimes shown — probably due to alphabetic order (’back’ comes before ‘front’).

2.) pictures that are in the id3tag are shown by RB but not by the plugin.

still: thanks! *thumbs up*

By: benjamin

benjamin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 01:52:55 +0000

@Arkham
Another thing I’ve done was to remove this gigantic flaw in which the cover art was updated every millisecond. Running this plugin does not consume any CPU… before it probably did.

By: benjamin

benjamin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 01:26:14 +0000

Yes, you’re right. I should admit that this project needs to open up. First step taken! Thanks for saying this, Hen!

And thanks to everybody for their feedback! Even though I didn’t manage to update anything for a lot of time, I can still say that you managed to make me feel very very guilty

http://code.google.com/p/rhythmbox-fullscreen-plugin/

First change: Use cover art from album directory before asking the cover art plugin.

By: Hen

Hen — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:26:24 +0000

Benjamin

Could you tell us in a 101% objective way if this project is dead or that it will be updated one day?

Don’t you think that would be the civil thing to do?
Your last message dates from September 1th 2009.

By: SiÃ´n

SiÃ´n — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:20:17 +0000

I tested this out last night, really cool, I’d use it for a party as-is, however:
-cover art doesn’t always display, even for tracks that have art displayed in rhythmbox
-while the plugin is enabled rhythmbox sometimes freezes (music still plays but the window greys out)
-it does display the current play queue… but then it also displays a whole trail of other songs by the same artist which are NOT in the play queue

apart from that, great plugin, keep up the good work!

By: Axle Unseen

Axle Unseen — Sat, 15 May 2010 10:25:59 +0000

On Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, Rhythmbox 12.8:
No cover is displayed. The rest seems to work.

Is this project dead? That would be a shame!

By: felix

felix — Thu, 13 May 2010 08:38:31 +0000

(running on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, Rhythmbox 12.8)