rhythmbox does not show album art in notifications

[Michael Janos]

the notifications show the rhythmbox icon rather than the album art.
the album art does show up in rhythmbox.

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

I've reproduced this. Leaving as NEW on notify-osd because I'm not sure if the problem is in the display agent, or rhythmbox.

[David Barth (dbarth)]

Confirmed, ie reproduced. I think this is a notify-osd bug. At least I'll track the bug from here.

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

Do you have the Cover art plugin enabled? It is disabled by default, I just enabled it and confirmed I DO see cover art in the notification.

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

On a related note, the notification looks much better with the cover art. Perhaps we should change the bug to enable the cover art plugin by default. Thoughts?

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

I have reproduced the problem with the cover art plugin enabled, it seems to randomly fail. Skipping through songs, it displayed cover art 7 out of 10 tries, some of the successes displayed the default icon for a moment then changed to the album art. So perhaps rhythmbox does some caching, writing out the icon to display each time maybe?

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

OK, I was wrong... the plugin is enabled by default. After recursively unsetting all the rhythmbox gconf keys I never get cover art in the notification, even though I do see the art in the UI.

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

This looks like a rhythmbox issue, some strace output below.

When I saw the cover art in the notification, this was in the strace output:

  open("/home/ken/.cache/rhythmbox/covers/Don Henley - Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits.jpg", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 24

When I saw the rhythmbox icon in the notification, this was in the strace output:

  open("/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/rhythmbox.png", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 24

This at least shows that notify-osd is displaying the icon it is being passed.

[Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen)]

I dont get any notifications from song changes from rhythmbox. I used to get them in jaunty, but not anymore. Perhaps related?

[David Barth (dbarth)]

I did more research with notify-osd. rythmbox actually sends 2 notification requests with embedded icon data, and the second one contains the cover art. I have re-opened bug #229197 that was mentioning that issue in rhythmbox.

[David Barth (dbarth)]

Rhythmbox bug.