Nemo missing audio tab in properties

[ronm99]

Right click on an mp3 file. Select properties. There should be a tab to display audio properties like nautilus has.

Cinnamon, Mint 15-64bit.

[OzzyFrank (ubuntu-ozzyfrank)]

Yeah, same here with Nemo 2.0.8 in Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit - this missing feature is keeping me reliant on Nautilus, otherwise I'd totally make the switch to Nemo, as it doesn't keep removing useful functions like the former does.

[OzzyFrank (ubuntu-ozzyfrank)]

Actually, I just thought I'd check out Nemo's nemo-media-columns add-on, and it is AWESOME! After installing it, I found no real difference in List (aka Details) view, but had to enable the new columns via Preferences. Whereas Nautilus is completely useless in this regard, the wealth of new media-based columns to choose from in Nemo is staggering. While I've never been one to use the List/Details view, toggling this to see more info is actually much easier than right-clicking a file and choosing Properties... and has the benefit of showing you info on all files, so at a glance you can tell if the album is VBR or CBR. Besides having the standard file-type and date, etc, I now have Album, Artist, Length, Bitrate and Title - great stuff!

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

The media columns can be useful, but I can't find one that gives audio information about movie files. I'd also rather not have to keep turning the the columns on and off again in display prefs just to see the info about a single file.

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

Re the media-columns extension, I also discovered that if it's installed it makes Nemo extraordinarily slow at loading folders with a large number of files in them - it took over two minutes for one folder that otherwise loads in a second or two - even if the columns were not configured to show!

So I had to uninstall it as it made Nemo unusable. So an audio tab would be very useful.

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

There's a better solution than nemo-media-columns described at http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=208&t=136592, which is to use mediainfo-gui. Unfortunately you have to manually configure it, but on the plus side it does give you more info than the audio tab in nautilus.

Note that the original code posted to put in the /home/<username>/.local/share/nemo/actions/mediainfo.nemo_action file has an error in the Exec line and should be instead:

[Nemo Action]
Name=Media properties
Comment=Media properties
Exec=mediainfo-gui "%F"
Icon-Name=mediainfo
Selection=S
Extensions=mp3;avi;flv;webm;mp4;mkv;

[Corbin (ravetcofx)]

This has been added https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo-extensions/tree/master/nemo-audio-tab

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

This extension works great for audio files (thanks!), but it doesn't display an audio information for video files (eg mp4 files).

For video files Nautilus actually displays an Audio/Video tab. Would it be possible to extend the extension to include A/V information for video files, or should we log another bug/enhancement request for that?

[Corbin (ravetcofx)]

re: rockorequin

It's definitely something I would like to add along with more audio types as right now I only supported MP3 & FLAC files.

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

Would something like mediainfo (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/wily/man1/mediainfo.1.html) be useful in supporting more formats? It seems to have good support for all sorts of audio and video (including image) files.

[Bob-El (boblanctot)]

Still missing on Mint Cinnamon 17.2 & 17.3 running nemo 2.6.7.

[linux-man (caldas-lopes)]

Sorry for the necrobump, but some of you might appreciate this: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=260777