Howto: Music album covers in Thunar Nautilus and everywhere!

[Bossieman]

Anyway to change the size of the pictures?

[Yuzem]

is there a way to make it just make the folder icon the avatar install of having the avatar picture for a .m3u list? i know i can do manually but i got a huge libarry of music

made a small script

gedit ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/avatar-factory

then insert

avatar-factory -mg . .

. stands for the current folder you are in with nautilst

so it will create the image and create the playlist for you saves alot of typing

not sure if its aoutmatic right click then scripts, might be just me and whyone else who installed the nautilist scripts from automatix

http://s26.photobucket.com/albums/c1.../myalbums2.png

I think that I don't understand you (me english doesn't help me much)
The script works on folders. You want it to work on .m3u lists?
Or you want a script for nautilus so you don't have to type the commands....?

Anyway to change the size of the pictures?

In Nautilus or Thunar press: ctrl and + or ctrl and -

[cwood06]

i want it to change the folder image to the png that avatart factory makes instead of having a .m3u

[Yuzem]

Avatar-Factory doesn't create any m3u file. Drag an avatar to gedit and you will see that they are not m3u files.

Changing the folder icon is out of the scope of this application and the principal problem in doing that is that it would be only compatible with nautilus plus no desktop widget, no flat view, no clic and play, no stars ratings (I would have to adapt them) etc...

I understand that it isn't very practical right now but I will implement tools to automatically add new albums, sort them, fix broken albums etc...

Sorry but right now I have no plans to implement that feature.

If someone else wants to contribute by doing it himself, I will include it.

[Yuzem]

New version:

05.07.07------0.1.5

+Added support for mpd (music player daemon)
+Added support for muine
+Added support for quodlibet
+avatar-music-widget (automatically show/hide the album widget)
+Existing avatar won't be overwritten (now you can scan the whole music dir for new albums)
+Minor internal changes

mpd users: read "MPD INSTRUCTIONS"

[Bossieman]

Tried the latest version and it worked like a charm. Thanks.

[andrek]

Thanks for the mpd support, will try it.

edit:
I did 'avatar-factory -mg /var/lib/mpd/music/mp3 /home/andrzej/Albums' and it actually works. BUT : when i try to open an album cover, it plays songs in totem, not mpd.

[Yuzem]

gedit ~/.avatar-factory/avatar-launcher

Insert or change your player and save it:

music="mpd"

If you want to use avatar-music-widget to automatically show hide the desktop widget then insert the client name.
Example:

music="sonata"

Right now the supported mpd clients (to automatically show hide the widget) are:
sonata
pygmy
ncmpc
gmpc

[djdp]

The music widget doesn't hide it self when i close the music player

[Yuzem]

avatar-music-widget must be running to automatically show hide the widget.
Type alt+F2 and insert:

avatar-music-widget