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
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Title:
"cover art" and "cover art search" plugins do not seem to do anything
(undocumented last.fm requirement)
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