History

version history

version 2.1.2 Jan 19 2016

• translation updates
• add missing dependency to README

version 2.1.1 Oct 26 2015

• translation updates

version 2.1 Mar 04 2015

• Allow switching between coverart-browser and the coverart-playlist sources via picture buttons on each source
• tighter integration with Rhythmbox - addition of select and play using Rhythmbox's own toolbar play button
• Support the alternative-toolbar capability to hide/show the coverart-toolbar
• Support for GTK 3.14
• Support for the upcoming release of Rhythmbox (3.2?)
• Single click icon display position changes consistently depending upon the cover-tile style (shadow/no shadow etc.)
• view/zoom/save the chosen cover - hover over the coverart on the track pane to reveal
• coverart information in tile-view can be now left/centre & right aligned
• Double click track & cover pane handle to open full height or to close
• Play Next (album)- add the selected album(s) to be the next album after the current playing album
• Play Next (track)- add the selected track(s) to be the next track after the current playing track
• Track Artist and Artist Information Panes can be opened and closed via double-click of the pane-handle
• Bottom Track & Cover Pane has more space - the expander & label has been removed
• Tidied display - visible pane handles disappear after the plugin has been run 5 times
• Add ability to resize Icon-view with CTRL+mouse wheel scroll
• Translated into 25 languages and locales
• for developers - doxygen documentation: http://fossfreedom.github.io/coverart-browser/classes.html

version 2.0 Jul 17 2014

• Compact & Full track view toggle option:
  1. Compact: fixed track view showing the key album track fields & ratings together with an enlarged album cover
  2. Full: Standard track view configurable via the preferences window
• Smart continuous playlist: Play Similar Artists as recommended by EchoNest
• Smart continuous playlist: Play Similar Genres as recommended by EchoNest
• Smart continuous playlist: Play Similar Tracks as recommended by LastFM
• New optional theme: darker toolbar icons by the graphics artist jrbastien
• New subtle hover, play & queue icons by the graphics artist jrbastien
• Introduce more modern look & feel through subtle animations
• Views button ("…") now can navigate to Play Queue. Allows navigation of key views without the side-bar (F9) being visible
• Artist & Album information pane with LastFM & EchoNest data
• Artist & Album information is fully localised (in your native language) if LastFM returns information in your locale
• Information pane can be made visible or hidden by dragging the pane-handle
• Track Artist Filter and Artist & Album Information panes individually displayed per view
• Support Jump To Playing CTRL+J to scroll to the playing album
• Follow playing song option automatically selects playing album
• Custom Genres are now saved in an alternative folder location to survive re-installation of the plugin
• Search Filter by Composer
• Introduce type-ahead Search filtering to improve searching usability
• Single click to append album to list of playing albums
• Right-click to append album to list of playing albums
• View and modify the list of album tracks being played
• Optional support for SmallWindow plugin - allows Rhythmbox to be toggled between its standard application window and its smaller counterpart
• Translated into 24 languages and locales
• for developers - doxygen documentation: http://fossfreedom.github.io/coverart-browser/classes.html

version 1.2 Jul 17 2014

• replace views label with an ellipsis
• stop inadvertent refresh of tile display when first display preferences window
• display hover icon correctly when spacing and padding is increased
• fix focus crash with some graphics cards
• fix locale display of preferences window title
• fix search edit placement when resizing rhythmbox

version 1.1 Mar 08 2014

• This is primarily a bug-fix release
• fix for right-click playlist support for Ubuntu 14.04
• check if lastfm plugin is activated correctly implemented for artist-view
• fix for "shudder" in artist-view for RB2.99
• latest translations from Launchpad
• corrected wrong column header for ArtistView

version 1.0 Jan 25 2014

• single click play for O/S's using GTK+3.6 or later for Tile-view
• new artists view: displays album-artists in a tree-view
• artists view: clicking on an album-artist displays the albums for that artist
• artists view: Download all artist covers using the covers properties menu option
• artists view: ... or drag and drop covers from cover view or from nautilus/firefox
• artists view: drag and drop of albums to playlists
• artists view: Filter buttons or filter search/quick track filter correctly filters view to show only the artists that have those filtered albums
• artists view: hovering the mouse pointer over the artist cover displays a tooltip of a larger version of the cover
• artists view: supports sorting of album-artist via clicking on its column header - ascending/descending/unsorted.
• artists view: right click of albums displays the same right click menu as in tile view or coverflow view
• artists view: right click of artists to play or queue all albums for that artist
• artists view: independent sort toolbar buttons - for example show albums for an artist by ascending year whilst in the tile view show albums by name
• new look (optional) to display album information within (on top of) the cover rather than below (beneath) the cover
• new lighter icon-theme from the brilliant designer - jrbastien
• new Rhythmbox 3 coverart source icon - again from jrbastien
• Look & Feel integration: Rhythmbox 3 style toolbar and button popup menus
• Look & Feel integration: New toolbar menu-button to switch between views including RB's own library view
• Look & Feel integration: New toolbar menu-button in RB's library view to switch to plugin views (RB v3 and later)
• Optional export and embed coverart from most file-formats to MP3.
• Remember quick artist filter between rhythmbox sessions
• support drag-and-drop of albums onto playlists or external devices for RB2.99 and later
• Rework Album & Playlist favourite supports - this declutters menus and now can be optionally enabled through properties button
• Right click support for the external plugin Repeat One Song
• Optionally use sort fields for album artists or album artists (right click - properties - sort tab)
• Use new Rhythmbox 3 progress bars for loading
• Tooltip support to display cover name and artist only if album information is not already displayed
• Translated into 25 languages and locales
• for developers - doxygen documentation: http://fossfreedom.github.io/coverart-browser/classes.html

version 0.9.2 Nov 9 2013

• latest translations from launchpad

version 0.9.1 Sep 13 2013

• bug fix #214 - non display of album-info on restart of rhythmbox
• latest translations from launchpad

version 0.9 Aug 27 2013

• New views as described below: https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-browser/wiki/Screenshots
• Advance options to control the icon-view spacing and selection padding - this can give a very different look to the plugin
• Added support for compatibility for RB2.99
• Added support for python3 for the upcoming RB3.0
• New Coverflow view together with options to display new view in three different ways
• Toggle buttons to switch view as well as new Properties button
• Access preferences for both Search and Browswer plugins via Properties button
• Play random albums from your current playlist & search filters
• Quick filter track artists via Properties button
• Track view can be toggled automatically on click as well as configured to manually open
• Translated into 21 languages and locales
• for developers - doxygen documentation: http://fossfreedom.github.io/coverart-browser/classes.html

version 0.8.2 June 22 2013

• updated translations from the launchpad team + fix for issue#188

version 0.8.1 May 22 2013

• updated translations from the launchpad team

version 0.8 Apr 24 2013

• Export whole albums and embed coverart in the album tracks so that (where required) phones/tablets can display coverart correctly
• Drag & Drop CoverArt icons onto playlists and sources (such as a phone) so that all tracks for an album are added

note - remember to use the Portable Players - Ipod and/or Portable Players - MTP plugin if your phone requires these to sync music

• separated coverart search into separate plugin (this is now a prerequisite) - https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-search-providers
• New light & dark theme buttons to complement light & dark desktop themes
• optional flat-button toolbar style
• revised popup menu style genre & playlist windows when number of entries would exceed the desktop height
• Use album and album-artist sort order tags for sorting if these values are utilised
• 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 -

OpenContainingFolder, SendFirst, Send Track, LastFMExtension - Fingerprinter, FileOrganizer, lLyrics, WikipediaSearch

N.B. if NOT using my PPA then ensure you have the very latest version of the plugins installed.

• for developers - doxygen documentation: http://fossfreedom.github.io/coverart-browser/classes.html

version 0.7 Jan 27 2013

• find & display embedded covers in MP3, M4A, FLAC & Ogg files
• Optional coverart search from Discogs internet service
• new filter by decade
• configurable shadow effect behind cover display
• Iconised filter & sort buttons that change icon depending upon option chosen
• popup menu selection for filters
• brand new icons designed explicitly to the coverart browser plugin
• one click open and close track view for a cover
• plugin translated into many more languages
• plugin code refactored - much faster to start and display without any flashing effects
• code has been completely documented using doxygen: http://fossfreedom.github.com/coverart-browser/classes.html
• covers displayed using rhythmbox natural sort i.e. ascending numbers
• search filter matches upper & lower-case as well as ignoring characters such as accents
• display covers for play-queue/music library & playlists from within the coverart-view
• column header sort in track view
• revamped plugin preferences

version 0.6 released Nov 30 2012

• Playlist support: display coverart from a playlist, queue & main library
• Playlist support: add albums and selected tracks from the coverart browser to playlists
• Ratings: update album and track ratings from easy-to-use Star visual object
• Sort & Search bar: optional display of these options on the left or right side of Rhythmbox panes
• Sort & Search bar: optional year and rating sort options
• Sort & Search bar: optional genre filter list
• Covers pane: simplified view showing album art first hiding initial search options until requested.
• Plugin Preferences: revamped the preferences dialog to tailor what your see and use.
• Plugin Preferences: both album and artist text under icons are ellipsized to save space
• Plugin Preferences: both album and artist text can use a user defined fixed font size

version 0.5 released Oct 27 2012

• Tracks & Covers pane - display tracks for the selected album and built-in coverart web-search
• Drag & Drop coverart update support
• Display Album & Artist name under the cover
• Support for assigning track-rating and playing/queuing your favourite rated tracks
• Multiple album selection
• Double click playing of albums
• Sort covers by album name and artist, both in ascending and descending order
• Set the coverart size displayed in the main view
• Multiple user-configurable options to tailor what you see and use.
• Examine and change properties for an Album
• Examine and change properties for a track
• Optionally start in coverart view when rhythmbox starts

version 0.4 release Sept 29 2012

• Filter your albums
• position of status bar text is configurable
• 32bit support now available
• icon-tooltip now show all the track artists for multi-artist albums
• automatic album focus when right-click an album to display album choices.

version 0.3 release Sept 17 2012

• added language support
• added status bar

version 0.2.1 release Sept 17 2012

• bugfix - fix double-click error

version 0.2 release Sept 17 2012

• add search capability
• add right-click cover search

version 0.1 release Sept 08 2012

• GTK3 port of code.google.com/p/rhythmbox-cover-art-browser