Cover thumbnailer

FLogisoft

Introduction

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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 :

English
Catalan
Danish
French
German
Italian [Partial]
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Turkish [Partial]

Your language is not in the list or has an incomplete translation ? You can help by translating Cover thumbnailer in your language !

Thanks to translators !

Download

The lastest version is the 0.7.1. You can download any older version on the repository.

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

Paquage for Ubuntu :

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.

Paquage for Debian :

cover-thumbnailer_0.7.1_all.deb
MD5 check sum: a4c53909a444e8ee6ece4661fda2077c

Compressed Archive (source code) :

cover-thumbnailer_0.7.1_src.tar.gz
MD5 check sum: 300b02de7b3cc187ef35c22851cca204

Using

Cover thumbnailer creates thumbnails when you visit your folders.

« Music » folder

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

« Pictures » folder

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

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

v0.7.1 (2010.03.06) :
- New locales : Catalan, German and Portuguese
- Locales updated : Italan, Polish and Russian
- Bug fix in the uninstall script (rm gconf schemas)
v0.7 (2010.02.15) :
- The install script now works on Fedora, Mandriva and other distributions
- New options avalables
- New translations (English, Danish, French, Polish, Russian and Spanish)
v0.6 (2009.12.26) :
- Configuration GUI (in English and French)
- Can use a picture in a sub-folder for Music dir
- If there is a cover.png, folder.jpg,... in a picture dir, we use it for the thumbnail