Ubuntu's default music player Rhythmbox won't ship with the Ubuntu One Music Store plugin in 13.04. Sounds like a bad move, but it's actually for the best...
Looking for a visually slick way to browse your music collection in Rhythmbox? The following CoverArt Browser plugin might be just what you're after...
WebMenu is a new Rhythmbox plugin that takes the pain out of finding artist, album, or song info online. For example, when listening to music on shuffle I often come across that I haven't heard from in a while. With WebMenu enabled I can press CTRL+W; right click on a track; or use the HUD to instantly open up their page on Wikipedia to see what they're up to.
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.
Banshee will be replaced by Rhythmbox for Ubuntu 12.04. The news was confirmed during the wrap-up session of the Ubuntu Developer Summit.
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.
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.
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
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 […]
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 […]
What's that sound? The sound of Rhythmbox meeting Elementary.
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.