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I am unable to browse by cover art in Rhythmbox. Apparently plugin is installed and active but I don't see the left pane option "Browse by cover art"

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EDIT: I can't install cover browser for some reason:

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Thank you

EDIT:

Added log from command line as proposed by comment #2:

(rhythmbox:9231): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_css_provider_load_from_path: assertion 'path != NULL' failed

(rhythmbox:9231): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: object SoupServer 0x170e6c0 finalized while still in-construction

(rhythmbox:9231): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: Custom constructor for class SoupServer returned NULL (which is invalid). Please use GInitable instead.

(rhythmbox:9231): libpeas-WARNING **: Could not find loader 'python' for plugin 'coverart_search_providers'

The plugins I downloaded and instructions I followed are the links pasted in my comment #1. Also some other cover art plugin was there when I first installed Ubuntu.

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The key error message is this part:

(rhythmbox:9231): libpeas-WARNING **: Could not find loader 'python' for plugin 'coverart_search_providers'

What this means is that you are using a python 2 plugin rather than the python 3 plugin that Rhythmbox v3.x requires.

Looking at the README there is a section specifically about how to install the plugin coverart-search-providers for Rhythmbox 3.

I've narrowed down the instructions specifically for Ubuntu & derivatives for Ubuntu 14.04 and later

How to install - Rhythmbox 3.0 and later:

for debian and other debian derived distros (such as ubuntu 14.04 & Mint based on 14.04):

sudo apt-get install git gettext python3-mako python3-requests python3-gdbm python3-pil python3-lxml

rm -rf ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/plugins/coverart_search_providers
git clone https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-search-providers.git
cd coverart-search-providers
./install.sh

The plugin requires either python3-mutagen (v1.25 or later) or mutagenx (v1.24 or later), both of which are available from PyPi

Alternatively, from GitHub

Mutagenx is Debian packaged from the PPA:

Finally there is one more method to install this and other rhythmbox plugins - just install from PPA which will install all the prerequistites including mutagen as well:

install the package rhythmbox-plugin-coverart-search

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