Contents
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Rhythmbox 3 Plugins
- 10 Band Equalizer
- Album Art Search
- Alternative Toolbar
- Ampache
- Android remote
- Beets Web
- Cinnamon-rhythmbox-tray
- Close-on-hide
- Countdown Playlist
- CoverArt Browser
- CoverArt Search Providers
- Desktop Coverart
- DRC
- File Organizer
- Fullscreen Cover Art+Playlist Plugin
- Jump to playing
- Jump to Window
- Google Stats
- LastFM Extension Plugin
- Last.fm Queue
- Looper
- lLyrics
- OpenContainingFolder
- Parametric Equalizer
- PlayLast.fm
- Playlists import/export
- Pod Queuer
- RadioBrowser
- Random Album Player
- RatingFilters
- Remember The Rhythm
- Rbpitch
- Rhythmbox Hide
- Rhythmbox Microblogger
- RhythmRemote
- Rhythmweb
- RhythmTray
- Screensaver
- Send First
- Spectrum
- Small Window for Rhythmbox
- Stop After Current Track
- Stop After Selected Track
- Suspend After Playing
- Tablature Plugin
- Tray Icon
- Web Menu 2.2
- WikipediaSearch
- YoutubeSearch
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Rhythmbox 0.x Plugins
- 10 Band Equalizer
- Alarm Clock (I)
- Alarm Clock (II)
- Album art search
- AppVol
- Artist Prefix
- CDDB
- Copy-2-Gnome
- Count In
- Countdown Playlist
- D-Bus events
- Desktop Art
- Duplicate Source
- Edit File
- Fast playback position access
- File Organizer
- Folder View
- gUPnP plugin
- Internet radio browser plugin
- Jump to playing
- Last Rhythm
- Last.fm queue
- LCDproc plugin
- Now Playing Clipboard
- Now Playing XML
- No More Earphone Accident
- Open Folder
- Pause After Track
- Pandora Radio
- Play Album
- Queue Album
- Queue On Click
- Quick Trash
- Record Radio Streams
- Remuco
- Repeat One Song
- Resume on restart
- Rhythmbox-GWT
- Rhythmbox Microblogger
- Rhythmcurse
- Rhythmidgin
- Rhythmote
- Delete Current playing file
- Export Playlist Plugin
Third Party Plugins for Rhythmbox
This page contains links to third party plugins for Rhythmbox. If you have your own, or know of any others, please add them here. For information on plugins included with Rhythmbox, look at plugins. If you are interested in writing your own plugins, please look at the plugin writing guide to get started.
Before adding a link to your plugin here, please ensure that the plugin information file (*.rb-plugin or *.plugin) contains valid contact information - at least your name and email address. This allows users to give you feedback and help you improve your plugin.
Please only link to full self-contained plugins here. If you have a modification to one of the plugins included in Rhythmbox, please file a bug in GNOME bugzilla and attach your changes instead. If you have a modification to one of the plugins listed here, it's better to send your changes to the author of the plugin.
Links to plugins without sufficient contact information and to things that aren't plugins will be removed.
Rhythmbox 3 Plugins
10 Band Equalizer
10 band equalizer for Rhythmbox.
Album Art Search
Searches the web for the album art of the currently playing song using Google image search APIs. From the resulting images, one can then choose an image to set as album art.
Alternative Toolbar
Replace the Rhythmbox large toolbar with a Client-Side Decorated or Compact Toolbar which can be hidden.
Ampache
Allows to stream music directly from an instance of an Ampache music streaming server.
Android remote
It allows to remote control Rhythmbox with Banshee remote Android application.
RB versions 2.96-2.99 Readme file from source code
RB versions 3.0+ Homepage
Beets Web
Rhythmbox plugin for accessing a Beets music library using its web API.
Cinnamon-rhythmbox-tray
Very simple plugin that hides the rhythmbox window instead of exiting it once the quit button is clicked by the user. However, it does not create any additional icon in the systray that messes up the theme and look. Instead, rhythmbox nicely blends into environments like Cinnamon (beware that if your desktop environment does not provide the way to interact with your music player via MPRIS, you will not be able to put rhythmbox back into foreground once you have closed it).
Close-on-hide
Rhythmbox plugin for Ubuntu to really close the application when the close button (x) is clicked. This brings back the true Gnome Rhythmbox experience.
Countdown Playlist
Create playlists from your music collection using keywords for a defined duration.
CoverArt Browser
Browse your music collection by the Cover-art of all albums. Covers are displayed as icons and you can play, queue and search for new covers.
CoverArt Search Providers
Drop in replacement for the default ArtSearch Plugin. Allows you to control where to get your coverart, provides new internet coverart options and has many bug-fixes not included in the default ArtSearch plugin.
Desktop Coverart
This plugin shows album cover art for the current playing song in Rhythmbox on the desktop. Control rhythmbox from the shown album art.
DRC
DRC for Rhythmbox delivers the complete functionality to measure a room response, create a correction filter and apply it to music playback to do real digital room correction.
File Organizer
Organise your music library. Fileorganizer will move and rename files according to your tags and then update the database so you don't lose your ratings and play counts. It will also back up duplicates and move files like album art with your files.
Fullscreen Cover Art+Playlist Plugin
Allows you to enter a full screen mode with album art, simple play list functionality and a very smooth, simplistic dark-themed look.
Jump to playing
Adds a context menu entry and a toolbar button to jump to the playing song.
Jump to Window
It's very similar to the 'Jump to File' feature in Winamp, including the ability to enqueue a song.
Google Stats
Imports play counts and ratings from the Google Music service
LastFM Extension Plugin
Add some LastFM related functionality to Rhythmbox: love/ban buttons, playcount sync and loved tracks sync.
NEW feature! ~ Track Fingerprinting: Match your tracks against LastFM database and retrieve it's info.
Last.fm Queue
Port of the 0.x plugin with the same name. Chooses the next song to queue based on the currently played track. Makes use of Last.fm recommendations.
Looper
Loop part of the song.
lLyrics
Displays lyrics for the current playing song in the right sidebar.
OpenContainingFolder
Adds an option to open the folder containing the selected track(s) to the right click context menu.
Parametric Equalizer
Parametric equalizer for Rhythmbox with support for up to 64 free configurable Bands.
PlayLast.fm
PlayLast.fm is a rhythmbox plugin allowing to create playlists from Last.fm scrobbles.
Playlists import/export
This plugin performs batch import/export of playlists from/to a selected folder. Export first
because importing deletes all static playlists. This functionality is particularly useful for backup and synchronization to other machines.
Pod Queuer
Adds podcasts to Play Queue in release date order and remembers their playback position.
RadioBrowser
Allows you to find and play internet radio stations. In addition, it can rip music tracks from these streams as MP3 files
Random Album Player
This plugin for Rhythmbox queues a random album and plays it immediately.
RatingFilters
Adds rating filters to the library browser, allowing you to filter favourite or unrated tracks.
Remember The Rhythm
Plugin to remember the last playing song, source (radio station, playlist), browser values (genre, album, artist)
Rbpitch
Adjust the pitch, tempo, or speed of the currently playing track. As of December 18, 2011, rbpitch is in beta status for Rhythmbox 3.x, and stable status for Rhythmbox 0.13.x.
Rhythmbox Hide
Enabled rhythmbox to start hidden or minimized
Rhythmbox Microblogger
send notice about current music to a microblogging service from Rhythmbox (currently supports twitter and identica)
RhythmRemote
A mobile web interface, which allows you to control Rhythmbox from a mobile or any other modern webbrowser.
Rhythmweb
Allows you to control Rhythmbox by internet web-browsing
RhythmTray
Icon in system tray for Rhythmbox - forward, next, play, pause, quit, volume control, minimize to tray, closing prevention, quick add an album or artist of the current song to the queue.
Screensaver
Pause Rhythmbox when the GNOME screensaver is activated
Send First
Allows you to send any song in your library or play queue at the beginning of the play queue.
Spectrum
Displays a visual spectrum analyzer
Small Window for Rhythmbox
Adds small window mode to Rhythmbox
Stop After Current Track
Stops playback after current track.
Stop After Selected Track
Stops playback after the track selected by the user. This also contains the "Stop After Current Track" plugin
Suspend After Playing
Allows you to shutdown or suspend your PC at the end of the play queue
Tablature Plugin
Find and display the guitar tablature (also for drum and bass when available) of the current playing song from tab websites. The tablatures will be showed in a small panel integrated in the Rhythmbox GUI.
Tray Icon
Control Rhythmbox from the system tray - rate songs, forward, next, play, pause, quit and volume control.
Web Menu 2.2
Search a song on YouTube, look for its lyrics or find its album and/or artist on Wikipedia, AllMusic, RateYourMusic, DiscoGS, AllAboutJazz, Last.fm, Grooveshark, MySpace, Facebook, Amazon and Torrentz, with just one click! This plugins adds a fully customizable 'Web' menu to the menu bar and to the context menu, along with new keyboard shortcuts. You can also add your favorite websites and remove those that aren't helpful.
NEW features: - Look for song lyrics
WikipediaSearch
Search for selected artist, album, track or genre at the click of a button.
YoutubeSearch
Search videos for selected artist, album or track.
Rhythmbox 0.x Plugins
10 Band Equalizer
10 band equalizer for Rhythmbox.
Alarm Clock (I)
This plugin gives Alarm Clock functionality to Rhythmbox.
Alarm Clock (II)
Tell Rhythmbox to start playing at a certain time.
Album art search
Searches the web for the album art of the currently playing song using google search apis. From the resulting images, one can then choose an image to set it as album art
AppVol
Change Rhythmbox volume according to focused application.
Artist Prefix
Configure a list of prefixes to ignore in artist names when sorting the artist list. This plugin looks at artist names and automatically adds a sortname entry for tracks that match the prefix to ignore. Allows Rhythmbox to, for example, sort "The Beatles" under "Beatles" instead of "The".
CDDB
The FreeDB mass-tagger.
Copy-2-Gnome
Copies the files of the selected songs to the Gnome Clipboard.
Count In
Provides a delay at the start of a song and a metronome style count down. Perfect for playing along to a song.
Countdown Playlist
Creates a playlist of specified length given any number of keywords; generally accurate within 20 seconds.
D-Bus events
Make Rhythmbox aware of certain D-Bus events and react upon them.
Desktop Art
This plugin shows album cover art for the current playing song in Rhythmbox on the desktop.
Duplicate Source
Provides a source for duplicate files. The search is based on the tags.
Edit File
Edit current file with Audacity via context menu.
Fast playback position access
Adds items to tray icon menu to provide fast access to the current playing track and its position. This can be very useful when long media files are playing.
File Organizer
Organise your music library. Fileorganizer will move and rename files according to your tags and then update the database so you don't lose your ratings and play counts. It will also back up duplicates and move files like album art with your files.
Folder View
Browse the music in Rhythmbox by folders.
gUPnP plugin
GUPnP is an object-oriented open source framework for creating UPnP devices and control points, written in C using GObject and libsoup.
Internet radio browser plugin
Plugin that shows the radio station lists of icecast (dir.xiph.org) and shoutcast directly in rhythmbox. So the user can easily search for internet radio stations in rhythmbox and play them. Recording of radio stations is also supported.
Jump to playing
This plugin will display the View : Jump to Playing Song link as a button in the toolbar and as link in the Browser’s context menu. Hides toolbar button (including Browse) when in small display mode.
Last Rhythm
This plugin displays recommendations related to the current track you are listening.
Last.fm queue
Chooses the next song to queue based on the currently played track. Makes use of Last.fm recommendations.
LCDproc plugin
Displays the song name and artist name on an LCD display managed by LCDproc.
Updated and extended version of original plugin (original Homepage).
Now Playing Clipboard
Copies current song information to your system clipboard on song change.
Now Playing XML
Automatically generates an XML document containing the current song information.
No More Earphone Accident
Just relax while earphone got unpluged by accident.
Open Folder
Context menu to open the folder with the song being currently played. File manager determined via xdg-open
Pause After Track
Pauses Rhythmbox after the current track
Pandora Radio
Plays Pandora radio stations.
Play Album
Right-click on an album to play its all tracks.
Queue Album
Right click on an album to queue all its tracks to the Play Queue
Queue On Click
Add selected song to your play queue by pressing middle click on your mouse.
Quick Trash
Adds an entry in the status icon popup menu to move the currently playing track to the trash.
Record Radio Streams
Rip internet radio streams to your harddisk using streamripper. This plugin also supports automatic recordings at a given time.
Remuco
Remotely control Rhythmbox with your cell phone. Remuco can be used with Bluetooth or WiFi and JavaME equipped mobile devices .
Repeat One Song
Add the possibility to repeat only the current song
Resume on restart
Resume playing the last song after Rhythmbox start.
Rhythmbox-GWT
A light GWT remote interface to Rhythmbox, optimized for smartphones. Based on the Rhythmweb plugin from Michael Gratton.
Rhythmbox Microblogger
send notice about current music to a microblogging service from Rhythmbox (currently supports twitter and identica)
Rhythmcurse
A telnet interface to rhythmbox which lets you control rhythmbox from a terminal.
Rhythmidgin
Show to your Pidgin buddies what song you are listening to with Rhythmbox. Pidgin's status message can be customized with song's title, artist, and album.
Rhythmote
Lets you control Rhythmbox remotely, from your web browser or android phone via an app. It is not an Internet radio server - it does not play music in your web browser, rather it lets you control Rhythmbox on a machine or android phone other than the one it is running on.
Delete Current playing file
Useful for deleting unwanted music from the library and harddisk. No need to go through new music and filter the things you like. Just delete the ugly stuff when you encounter it the first time using Ctrl+Sift+Del.
Export Playlist Plugin
Plugin for copying music files of a playlist into a different destination.