I can't seem to find an inbuilt way to have Rhythmbox fetch album art for tracks — stock plugins also don't help. Is there any external package that could do that, or am I maybe missing something?
Ubuntu – How to have Rhythmbox download album art for tracks
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This is a bug in Rhythmbox.
As for alternatives, Banshee
is very popular, so you could give this a try. I don't use it so I can't give you my experience of it but I hear it has the feature you want.
As far as I know, the Plugin isn't working at all because the Site where the Covers can be found has decided to disable Rhythmbox-Users completly because of too high traffic.
What you can do is searching your Covers manually via images.google.com, save them as folder.jpg in the album-folders and (if you want) inject the Artwork into your .mp3-files with a Tag-Editor like Mp3Tag (works fine with Wine).
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Best Answer
AlbumArtSearch is a third party plug in for Rhythmbox that will search for and download the cover art for the currently playing track. Unfortunately, it doesn't run in the background automatically, though the fact that you can refine searches makes sure you get the covers that you are actually looking for.
First install the two dependencies:
sudo apt-get install python-webkit python-makoNext download the plugin. You can get it at the link above or run:
wget http://albumartsearch.googlecode.com/files/albumartsearch_0.2.tar.gzFinally you need to extract it in the folder
~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/pluginsThis can be done with Nautilus or by running these commands: