automatically use image (e.g. folder.jpg) as a folder image

[David Prieto]

Binary package hint: nautilus

I have a music collection in my Music folder in about 150 folders, one for each album I have. For each of them I used Cowbell to normalise filenames, and that program also automatically saves an image file which corresponds to the album cover and is called "cover.jpg". As far as I know, Rhythmbox does something similar: it fetches album art from the Internet and -if you want- saves it.

I've usually used the folder preferences to use those images as custom icons for their respective folders, but it can become a burdensome task when there's a high number of folders. It would be really handy for nautilus to recognise specific filenames "cover.jpg, cover.png, folder.png...) and automatically use those files as folder icons. Maybe even detect names based on the system language, e.g. use "caratula.jpg" if your system is in Spanish. Something similar to what xdg-user-dirs does?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Linking your own bug report at the upstream bug tracker, thanks.

[Marcus Carlson (0-launchpad-mejlamej-nu)]

Can't Rhythmbox use the new gvfs api [1] and set the icon itself?

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2009-September/msg00020.html

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

upstream set this task to won't fix, there's a plugin for doing that now, you can download it at : http://software.flogisoft.com/cover-thumbnailer/en/ ; if you'd like that to be included in Ubuntu you need to open a needs-packaging bug. closing this task, thanks all.

[Artem Popov (artfwo)]

For the record, needs-packaging bug is already opened (bug 523981).