Public bug reported: Running Rhythmbox as default install in 12.04 Beta 1, I didn't see album art for many of my albums. I found that "cover art" and "cover art search" were already selected in the plugins, but that did not seem to matter. No documentation appeared anywhere online or in the built-in help related to cover art. There were no menu options that I could see appearing or disappearing when enabling/disabling the plugins.
It was impossible to tell whether Rhythmbox couldn't find the cover art, if it wasn't looking in the first place. Furthermore the cover art was missing which was present in some cases with Banshee in Ubuntu 11.10. I was finally trying to submit a bug report, ran rhythmbox -d >& rhythmbox.log and started searching through that log file. I finally happened upon this line: (13:42:39) [0x1175690] [LastFMSearch.search] /usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/artsearch/lastfm.py:303: can't search: no last.fm account details That is the ONLY place I saw mentioned that a last.fm account might be related to cover art searching. While it's perfectly reasonable to require some kind of service to fetch album art, this requirement is obscure and invisible to the user. There are a couple of bug reports about cover art fetching not working which could easily be a result of this. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: rhythmbox 2.96-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-21.34-generic 3.2.13 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-21-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Apr 1 13:32:46 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120327.1) ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SourcePackage: rhythmbox UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: rhythmbox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug apport-lpi precise -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/970989 Title: "cover art" and "cover art search" plugins do not seem to do anything (undocumented last.fm requirement) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/970989/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs