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Cover thumbnailer is a small Python script which displays music album covers in nautilus, preview of pictures which are in a folder and more.

The script fits in nautilus like any other thumbnailer of the GNOME thumbnail factory; so you don't have to run it manually to generate thumbnails.

Cover thumbnailer is free software under GNU GPL v3+ license, you are free to modify and redistribute it under the terms of the license.

Cover thumbnailer is currently available in more than 15 languages (list).

The interface is not available in your language or have an incomplete translation ? You can help by translating Cover thumbnailer in your language !

Thanks to translators !

Download

The lastest version is the 0.8.1. You can download any older version on the repository.

NOTE : you have to restart nautilus after the install : nautilus -q && nautilus & exit

[tgz] Compressed Archive (source code) :

cover-thumbnailer_0.8.1_src.tar.gz
MD5 check sum: df8776bc8b1079d973670e03b45a607d

[ppa] Ubuntu Package :

From karmic, you can add the PPA with the following command :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flozz/flozz

next, uptate your packages list :

sudo apt-get update

and then install the cover-thumbnailer package :

sudo apt-get install cover-thumbnailer

For more informations about the PPA, visit the Launchpad page.

NOTE : For older Ubuntu versions, download the Debian package below.

[deb] Debian Package :

cover-thumbnailer_0.8.1_all.deb
MD5 check sum: 381ee500c5de16991885fc765d51e424

[fw] Frugalware Package :

For installing Cover thumbnailer on Frugalware, type the following command (as root) in your terminal :

pacman-g2 -S cover-thumbnailer

Thanks to devil505 for the package :)

[NuTyX] NuTyX Package :

Cover thumbnailer is available in the NuTyX ports. It can be installed by typing the following command (as root) in your terminal :

prt-get depinst cover-thumbnailer

For more information about NuTyX ports, read the official wiki page [fr].

Thanks to fanch and tnut who helped me for making this package :)

Using

Cover thumbnailer creates thumbnails when you visit your folders.

[music] « Music » folder

Just put any picture in the folder and Cover thumbnailer will use it.

[pictures] « Pictures » folder

Cover thumbnailer takes the three first pictures it found in the folder, and use them for the thumbnail..

[other] Other folders

Put a picture with a name like Cover.png, folder.jpg, or .cover.png in the folder, and Cover thumbnailer will use this picture as thumbnail for the folder.

Configuration

For configuring Cover Thumbnailer, you just have to use the graphical configuration tool.

It was avalables in the menu : "System → Preferences → Cover Thumbnailer".

Or with this command :

cover-thumbnailer-gui

Changelog

Screenshots

Here there are some screenshots of nautilus with Cover thumbnailer installed (click to enlarge):

Screeshot of nautilus in « Music » folder Screeshot of nautilus in « Pictures » folder Screeshot of nautilus in « Other » folder

Screenshot of the configuration tool

Users screenshots

Screenshot on NuTyX (version 0.7) Screenshot on Mandriva Spring 2009 (version 0.7) Screenshot on Fedora 11 (version 0.7) Screenshot of Zniavre (version 0.4)