Introduction

This project has many goals. I reckon the most important one is being an enhancement to the current CoverArt plugin written by James Livingston. I also try to make the architecture of this plugin modular so that it could be ported to the other music players if necessary. This is my first time python programming so even though the language itself seems very appealing to me I guess you will be able to find some of my mistakes, please point them out :)

Details

Features

• CoverArtDatabase engine for searching album art.
• Animation effects powered by Clutter Toolkit

TODO

• Improvement on interface

Instalation

Following instructions were tested on Ubuntu Feisty and Gutsy, but should work with other distros.

1. Install clutter with python bindings from repositories or tarball (python-clutter)
• Ubuntu 7.10 provides clutter in its repositories by default
• For older versions of Ubuntu go here
2. Download coverartclutter
• The only way to download the plugin at the moment is via svn repository
• svn checkout http://coverartclutter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ coverartclutter
• You need to have subversion installed on your system to perform this
• Running svn up inside plugin's directory will update it to the latest trunk revision
3. Move plugin to Rhythmbox's plugin directory
• mv coverartclutter ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins/