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Cover Thumbnailer is a small Python script which displays music album covers in nautilus, preview of pictures which are in a folder and more.
The script fits in nautilus like any other thumbnailer of the GNOME thumbnail factory; so you don't have to run it manually to generate thumbnails.
Cover thumbnailer is free software under GNU GPL v3+ license, you are free to modify and redistribute it under the terms of the license.
CONFIGURATION : System → Preferences → Cover Thumbnailer
NOTE : you need to reconnect to your session for Cover Thumbnailer start working :)
Get Involved :
If Cover Thumbnailer is not available in your language, you can translate it :
https://translations.launchpad.net/cover-thumbnailer/+translations
10 years ago
Version 0.8.1 :
* Fixes bug lp:607240 (ct-gui crashes when GNOME's folders are not configured)
* Translation update (tr, zh_CN)
Version 0.8 :
* For music folders:
* Resize method (crop or preserve)
* Make mosaic when there is more than one cover
* For picture folders:
* Chose the maximum number of pictures to display on the thumbnail (from 1 to 4)
* For ignored folders:
* "Never ignore" a folder
* Other changes:
* An option for changing the thumbnail size in nautilus
* Now cover thumbnailer prevent from misconfiguration of GNOME default folders
* A new install script with dependency check
Version 0.7.2 :
* New locales : Galician, Hungarian, Romanian, Czech, Slovak
* Updated locales : Portuguese, Russian, Italian, German
* A small change in the GUI
Version 0.7.1 :
* New locales : Catalan, German and Portuguese
* Locales updated : Italian, Polish and Russian
* Bug fix in the uninstall script (rm gconf schemas)
Version 0.7 :
* Initial upload
10 years ago
Version 0.8.1 :
* Fixes bug lp:607240 (ct-gui crashes when GNOME's folders are not configured)
* Translation update (tr, zh_CN)
Version 0.8 :
* For music folders:
* Resize method (crop or preserve)
* Make mosaic when there is more than one cover
* For picture folders:
* Chose the maximum number of pictures to display on the thumbnail (from 1 to 4)
* For ignored folders:
* "Never ignore" a folder
* Other changes:
* An option for changing the thumbnail size in nautilus
* Now cover thumbnailer prevent from misconfiguration of GNOME default folders
* A new install script with dependency check
Version 0.7.2 :
* New locales : Galician, Hungarian, Romanian, Czech, Slovak
* Updated locales : Portuguese, Russian, Italian, German
* A small change in the GUI
Version 0.7.1 :
* New locales : Catalan, German and Portuguese
* Locales updated : Italian, Polish and Russian
* Bug fix in the uninstall script (rm gconf schemas)
Version 0.7 :
* Initial upload
ezz913
6 years ago
Or is there another Thumbnailer that will do the same with no overlays obscuring the art?
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donoterase
10 years ago
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eaerth
10 years ago
maybe there is one and i'm just not looking in the right place?
p s - thanks for the great script ;}
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FLOZz
10 years ago
For the moment, you have to change the files stored in /usr/share/cover-thumbnailer
:)
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eaerth
10 years ago
thanks
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FLOZz
10 years ago
The code for music thumbnail is from line 259 to line 285
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~flozz/cover-thumbnailer/v0.8/annotate/head%3A/cover-thumbnailer/cover-thumbnailer.py#L259
you can change those lines :
x = int((bg_width - cover_width + delta) / 2)
y = int((bg_height - cover_height) / 2)
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eaerth
10 years ago
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FLOZz
10 years ago
http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1291205067.png
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donoterase
10 years ago
I also have one other issue and wondering if this is universal. When opening my music folder using side pane in nautilus browser, thumbnails come up perfectly...however...I have a symlink to my music folder on the Desktop, and when opening my music folder via the shortcut, I got no thumbnails generated. Any idea what's going on here. I've even tried to add the shortcut link under cover-thumbnail settings as list of music folders. Cheers again.
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Renato76
10 years ago
I have a question about the thumbnails in my Music Folder.
My Music Folder is structured like this: one folder for each artist, and inside each artist folder one folder for each album. Now, CT works pretty good, it detects the folder.jpg files in each Album folder and creates a thumbnail.
However it assigns a thumbnail also to the Artist folders, which by themselves are without any folder.jpg files. It does so by arbitrarily assign one thumbnail of the Album subfolders inside the Artist ones.
I dont want this. The Artist folders do not have any folder.jpg files for the specific reason that I dont want any thumbnails for them.
Now, I have looked for any option to deactivate recursive attribution of subfolders' jpgs to the main folders, but I didnt find any. Is there a solution to this?
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FLOZz
10 years ago
I will add this for the next version.
Can you report this as a bug ?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/cover-thumbnailer/+filebug
(I don't want to forget to do it ^^'...)
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se3n
10 years ago
http://gnome-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=2&id=120258&file1=120258-1.png&file2=120258-2.png&file3=120258-3.png&name=Cover-thumbnailer
how to get little thumbs to be little rotated like in the screenshot? i think it's very cool:P but how :(
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FLOZz
10 years ago
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gallifrey81
10 years ago
I have installed Cover Thumbnailer from Ubuntu PPA. It showed Thumbnails for my music folder, and Pictures folder, but not for my videos.
I have put files called .folder.jpg/.png in all the folders, but nothing. I have followed advice from previous posts on here.
Now, I have cleared the thumbnail cache, and ALL of my thumbnails have gone, and are not coming back!
Please help!
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FLOZz
10 years ago
if you type the following commands, what is the result ?
gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/inode@directory/enable
gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/inode@directory/command
test -x /usr/bin/cover-thumbnailer && echo ok || echo error
:)
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donoterase
10 years ago
command: gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/inode@directory/enable
output: true
command: gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/inode@directory/command
output: true (NOTE: original output was no value set, but I want into config-editor and added a new key named "command"...not sure if this is a correct workaround)
command: test -x /usr/bin/cover-thumbnailer && echo ok || echo error
output: bash: test: too many arguments.
Also, if i enter the command cover-thumbnailer /home/music/Artist/ out.png, it dumps a nice little thumbnail image into my current working directory.
Help anyone?
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FLOZz
10 years ago
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donoterase
10 years ago
command: gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/inode@directory/enable
output: true
command: gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/inode@directory/command
output: true (NOTE: original output was no value set, but I want into config-editor and added a new key named "command"...not sure if this is a correct workaround)
command: test -x /usr/bin/cover-thumbnailer && echo ok || echo error
output: bash: test: too many arguments.
Also, if i enter the command cover-thumbnailer /home/music/Artist/ out.png, it dumps a nice little thumbnail image into my current working directory.
Help anyone?
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elementxyz
10 years ago
I have to replace
/usr/share/cover-thumbnailer/music_bg.png right?
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FLOZz
10 years ago
if you need help for creating your picture, you can contact me by mail:
http://www.flogisoft.com/contact/
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elementxyz
10 years ago
Thanks for this great app!!!
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FLOZz
10 years ago
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jaminthorns
10 years ago
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FLOZz
10 years ago
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vishytk
10 years ago
/usr/bin/cover-thumbnailer-gui:277: GtkWarning: Ignoring the separator setting
win.add_from_file(os.path.join(BASE_PATH, "cover-thumbnailer-gui.glade"))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/cover-thumbnailer-gui", line 627, in <module>
gui = MainWin()
File "/usr/bin/cover-thumbnailer-gui", line 363, in __init__
loadInterface(self) #Put config on the gui
File "/usr/bin/cover-thumbnailer-gui", line 614, in loadInterface
if os.path.samefile(CONF['music_gnomefolderpath'], CONF.user_homedir) \
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/posixpath.py", line 152, in samefile
s1 = os.stat(f1)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '<None>'
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