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Purpose:
I often find myself thinking "Who wrote this song originally?"
or "What was the bassist's name?" when listening to music in
Ubuntu. Rhythmbox has a pretty simple architecture for adding
plugins through the python bindings. I decided to create a
plugin that would allow me to right click on any given song
and lookup information about the song, artist, or album
on AllMusic.com. After
some digging I found a few other projects that used the URL's
to search the AllMusic database.
Installation:
- Download the
package here
- Extract the contents to either your personal Rhythmbox
plugins directory (~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins/) or get sudo
privilege and extract it to the installed plugins
directory(/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/).
- Run Rhythmbox, go to Edit->Plugins and enable 'Information
Lookup'
- Go to any song, right click and you should now see three
options at the bottom of the menu to look up Artist, Album, or
Song information!
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