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-mako
Next download the plugin. You can get it at the link above or run:
wget http://albumartsearch.googlecode.com/files/albumartsearch_0.2.tar.gz
Finally you need to extract it in the folder ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins
This can be done with Nautilus or by running these commands:
mkdir -p ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins
tar -xvf albumartsearch_0.2.tar.gz -C ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins
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As far as I know, you need to grep the actual dbus-session of the machine that runs rythmbox. This is kind of tricky.
I have installed a script at my server, which is run after boot automatically, and which saves the current dbus-address to a file in my homedir.
If I ssh to the machine later, I can just grep the session-adress from there.
I: Script to store dbus adress:
name it "Get.Dbus.sh" and save it somewhere to your disk. Give it the following content:
set | grep DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS > ~/.DBUS_temp
make it executable and add it to your start-items
II: Script to grep the current session:
name it "Run.DBus.sh" and save it in e.g. /usr/local/bin/
Give it the following content:
source /home/YOUR_USERNAME/.DBUS_temp
export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
$*
don't forget to make it executable
III: ssh to your machine and start the rhythmbox-client as follows:
Run.DBus.sh rhythmbox-client
This works here!
Best Answer
Unfortunately no, Rhythmbox doesn't support fetching of metadata not even through plugins. But there are better alternatives available in Ubuntu repositories. I would suggest EasyTAG
EasyTAG is an utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, MP4/AAC, MusePack, Monkey's Audio and WavPack files. Its simple and nice GTK2 interface makes tagging easier under GNU/Linux or Windows.
You can install it by running the following command in terminal.
sudo apt-get install easytag
or search for "easytag" in Software Center and install in from there.