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DavidRaid — Rhythmbox can be Beautiful too
Published: 2010-12-28 12:04:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 13332; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 132
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With Canonical making the decision to replace Rhythmbox with Banshee as the default music player for 11.04, I saw a lot of people happy about this because they felt Banshee had a much simpler and more attractive interface.I've always found Banshee to be slightly buggier and less happy to fit in with my gtk theme than Rhythmbox, so I've taken a screenshot of my Rhythmbox install when I first start it.
Look different? I have the Rhythmarty plug-in installed and I've edited the elementary theme's gtkrc file to make it retheme Rhythmbox as well.
Just those two small changes have revamped Rhythmbox to look MUCH better.
Rhythmbox is an amazing music player and manager and just needs some more love to its interface, don't give up on it yet.
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elementary by Dan Rabbit
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Sorry i need a little help. how can i make my rhythombox look like yours
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Ah. I'm sorry to tell you this.. but this is a fairly old image. At the minute, I've not found a way to get Rhythm-arty to work with the newer, GTK3 versions of Rhythmbox, nor have I been able to compile and install Rhythm-e, which was a forked version of Rhythmbox with it in there by default.
I recommend trying Noise, a fantastic new music player!
Open up the terminal and type, line by line and pressing enter after each one.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nemequ/sqlheavy
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install noise
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thank you very much! do you know if covergloobus is compatible with this?
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I don't think it it yet. Noise is a very, very new music player, which has been adding new features and abilities rapidly. It might be coming.
Google for it's Launchpad page and see if there are any blueprints for Covergloobus support. :]
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hey, when i run
sudo apt-get install noise
it cant find any package :/
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Which Ubuntu version are you running and did you forget to do the
sudo apt-get update
line after adding the two ppas?
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Running Ubuntu 10.04
Yes I remembered
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Sorry, before you type in any of those, do this
sudo apt-get install bzr
Otherwise one of those lines won't work. If you forget, don't worry, you can just try again after installing it. It will prompt you to install bzr when you try to use it.
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Ah, that's what it is. 10.04 doesn't have GTK3 and so can't run Noise.
However, you can install Rhythm-e, which looks similar and is a forked version of Rhythmbox.
Copy and paste these into your terminal, line by line. Some of these lines may take a bit of time to finish, be patient.
sudo apt-get remove rhythmbox
sudo apt-get build-dep rhythmbox
bzr branch lp:rhythm-e
cd rhythm-e
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
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You're welcome! Let me know if it works and if you like it.
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it worked 
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Thanks David,
I have installed and activated the add in. My problem is that most of the album art doesn't show up. The album art only shows for the song playing in the left hand corner.
How can I get all the album art to show? I tried the > Tools > Get Covers button but it didn't work.
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I gave up on rhythmbox when I found out it had no way to repeat a single track on a playlist. Sure, there are people who will have to uninstall banshee and reinstall rhythmbox come April, but for me that's one fewer thing I have to install.
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A five second googling around has revealed this [link]
I've copied it into my plugin-folder, turned it on and I can report it works great.
Clicking the button makes whatever track you're listening to loop, without taking you from the list you're on.
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Thanks for the link, looks like that was released a few months after I decided to switch.
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No problem, I hope it makes you reconsider Rhythmbox. 
Here's the Rhythmarty plugin I was talking about [link]
That gives you the album cover look I have in my screenshot.
The 'Show/Hide Genre/Artist browser' button (the hand over a square one next to the back arrow) will turn the Artist list on and off, which is to narrow down your album selection.
You can change the image it uses for albums without coverart by just replacing 'generic.png' in the plugin folder. It'll need to be 200x200 pixels. As you can see in my screenshot, I replaced it with a stretched version of the image Gloobus Preview uses, because I one, thought it looked cool, and two, it matches the elementary theme I use.
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Rhythmbox is like a fresh install of Ubuntu itself.Very few people leave their default install of Ubuntu as it is, they install their codecs, tweak their sources, add new programs and almost always change their themes.
Why should Rhythmbox be any different? Don't give up on it because it doesn't do something out of the box.
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Just type the first few letters of that track to remove the others from your list and double click it. >.>
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I am on your side brother! I love Rhythmbox and if they go Banshee well, I know how to uninstall/install.
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Indeed! I love that about Ubuntu and Linux in general, freedom to customize. Plus there's always custom install discs, one of which I'm working on now, with the Rhythmarty-enhanced Rhythmbox on there by default, as well as the codecs and restricted packages, etc.
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