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Handy Plugin to Sync Last.FM Playcount With Rhythmbox

Sync your play counts on Last.FM to your Rhythmbox music collection.

The following plugin updates Rhythmbox with a track’s playcount from Last.fm. That way, regardless of where or what you scrobble your music from your playcounts in Rhythmbox will remain up-to-date.

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Banshee, Tomboy And Mono Dropped from Ubuntu 12.04 CD

Banshee will be replaced by Rhythmbox for Ubuntu 12.04.

The news was confirmed during the wrap-up session of the Ubuntu Developer Summit.

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Rhythmbox to Return As Ubuntu 12.04 Default Music App?

Rhythmbox: Pretty Much How You Remember It

What applications will be shipping out-of-the-box in Ubuntu 12.04? The bi-annual ‘default apps’ discussion taking place at this weeks Ubuntu Developer Summit has tasked itself with locking in a set of preferred choices.

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How to install the latest Rhythmbox (including its new last.fm plugin) in Ubuntu 10.10

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The recent update to music player Rhythmbox brought with it many feature updates and fixes.

Amongst these came a newly souped-up Last FM plugin offering up detailed user stats, artist recommendations and support for music streaming.

Maverick users can now install it via a dedicated backport PPA.

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Easily add a Rythmbox ‘remove’ item keyboard shortcut

Does Rhythmbox’s lack of a keyboard shortcut for the ‘Remove’ option annoy you? Well here’s an easy way to add a short-cut key of your choice

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Album Art Search plug-in for Rhythmbox

Search for missing album artwork directly from Rhythmbox using the following ‘AlbumArtSearch‘ plug-in. The add-on searches the web for album art/images of the currently playing song. From the resulting images, one can be set as the album art. Whilst the plug-in is not automatic – it requires you to run it for each album/item individually [...]

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Cover art extension RhythmArty updates with new display options

Yeah, yeah I know – you’re all sick of posts somehow pertaining back to Rhythmbox but news is news, kiddies and when it involves one of our favourite Rhythmbox extensions – the excellent Album Art view extension RhythmArty – who are we to ignore it? The updated extension now has configurable background colour, configurable album [...]

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Rhythm-e: Elementary take on Rhythmbox

What’s that sound?

The sound of Rhythmbox meeting Elementary.

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Import iTunes ratings in to Rhythmbox

Importing your music collections ratings from iTunes to Rhythmbox is a wheeze using this ‘iTunesToRhythm’ script by a user called ‘Doug’.

Hit up the full article after the jump for a download link and usage instructions.

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OMG! 5! – Five Rhythmbox extensions

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We list our five favourite extensible features for Rhythmbox in this weeks OMG! 5!

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Easily export you Last.fm scrobbles to Libre.fm

If you’ve longed to make the leap from Last.fm to its’ open-source ‘rival’ Libre.fm but the thought of losing your thousands of scrobbles put you off then do read on…

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RhythmArty – Banshee style album browsing for Rhythmbox

Hardened Rhythmbox users longing for a Banshee-style Album Art browsing view need long no more. RhythmArty is a plugin for rhythmbox that provide such a view; allowing you to browse your music collection via large an album art display. Download Installation is a doddle – just download the corresponding .deb file for your system below [...]

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Coverflow plug-in for Rhythmbox

Longing for a visually impressive way of browsing your music library in Rhythmbox?

Can you say ‘Coverflow time’!

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Rhythmbox re-imagined Elementary style

German designer Jan stopped by the OMG! mail box today to share his mock-ups for an Elementary style Rhythmbox and Evolution. “Today I did some mockup images for Rhythmbox and Evolution (mail and calenderview) how they could look  the elementary-way.” Whilst we’ll skip over the Evolution mock-ups here (Postler, people, Postler) you can view those [...]

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Rhythmbox finally gets the update Maverick testers have longed for…

Rhythmbox no-longer exits when you press the ‘close’ button.

In Lucid pressing the ‘close’ window button minimized the main window to the Rhythmbox indicator. With the introduction of the new Sound Menu in Ubuntu 10.10 the last few months have required Maverick users to have Rhythmbox fully open on the desktop (or sat in the panel/dock) all the time.

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