Fetching album cover art does not work

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The artwork downloading works correctly on my hardy installation

I can confirm this bug. When I play a song without a cover.jpg file in the folder there is no action fetching the cover from the web. Its only searching for local cover art.

debug-output (play song without local cover art):

(12:30:31) [0x80dc408] [new_playing_stream_idle_cb] rb-shell-player.c:3062: new playing stream: file:///home/oliver/Musik/Kings%20of%20Leon/Because%20of%20the%20times/01%20Knocked%20Up.mp3
(12:30:31) [0x80dc408] [rb_shell_hidden_notify_markup] rb-shell.c:3094: shell is visible, not notifying
(12:30:31) [0x80dc408] [rhythmdb_query_model_dispose] rhythmdb-query-model.c:633: disposing query model 0x8187a50
(12:30:31) [0x80dc408] [rhythmdb_query_model_finalize] rhythmdb-query-model.c:681: finalizing query model 0x8187a50
(12:30:31) [0x80dc408] [LocalCoverArtSearch.search] /usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/artdisplay/LocalCoverArtSearch.py:108: searching for local art for file:///home/oliver/Musik/Kings%20of%20Leon/Because%20of%20the%20times/01%20Knocked%20Up.mp3
(12:30:31) [0x80dc408] [rb_shell_player_sync_with_source] rb-shell-player.c:2599: playing source: 0x8329e20, active entry: 0xb463adb0
(12:30:31) [0x80dc408] [rb_shell_set_window_title] rb-shell.c:2144: setting title to "Kings of Leon - Knocked Up"
(12:30:31) [0x80dc408] [rb_header_sync] rb-header.c:355: syncing with entry = 0xb463adb0
(12:30:31) [0x80dc408] [rb_shell_player_sync_buttons] rb-shell-player.c:2704: syncing with source 0x8329e20
(12:30:31) [0x80dc408] [tick_cb] rb-shell-player.c:3197: tick: [file:///home/oliver/Musik/Kings%20of%20Leon/Because%20of%20the%20times/01%20Knocked%20Up.mp3, 0:430(0)]

(12:30:31) [0x80dc408] [new_playing_stream_idle_cb] rb-shell-player.c:3062: new playing stream: file:///home/oliver/Musik/Kings%20of%20Leon/Because%20of%20the%20times/01%20Knocked%20Up.mp3
(12:30:31) [0x80dc408] [rb_shell_hidden_notify_markup] rb-shell.c:3094: shell is visible, not notifying
(12:30:31) [0x80dc408] [rhythmdb_query_model_dispose] rhythmdb-query-model.c:633: disposing query model 0x8187a50
(12:30:31) [0x80dc408] [rhythmdb_query_model_finalize] rhythmdb-query-model.c:681: finalizing query model 0x8187a50
(12:30:31) [0x80dc408] [LocalCoverArtSearch.search] /usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/artdisplay/LocalCoverArtSearch.py:108: searching for local art for file:///home/oliver/Musik/Kings%20of%20Leon/Because%20of%20the%20times/01%20Knocked%20Up.mp3
(12:30:31) [0x80dc408] [rb_shell_player_sync_with_source] rb-shell-player.c:2599: playing source: 0x8329e20, active entry: 0xb463adb0
(12:30:31) [0x80dc408] [rb_shell_set_window_title] rb-shell.c:2144: setting title to "Kings of Leon - Knocked Up"
(12:30:31) [0x80dc408] [rb_header_sync] rb-header.c:355: syncing with entry = 0xb463adb0
(12:30:31) [0x80dc408] [rb_shell_player_sync_buttons] rb-shell-player.c:2704: syncing with source 0x8329e20
(12:30:31) [0x80dc408] [tick_cb] rb-shell-player.c:3197: tick: [file:///home/oliver/Musik/Kings%20of%20Leon/Because%20of%20the%20times/01%20Knocked%20Up.mp3, 0:430(0)]

Not confirming, this works pretty fine on both of my hardy installations, of course it doesn't work fine for some weird records i have that don't have or finding the cover is pretty difficult even for google for example. Can you test the same with a new user and please attach the log files next time? thanks, just run rhythmbox --debug &> rhythmbox-debug.txt and attach that file to the report.

I've created a new user, imported some songs and tried it again with different albums - but again no covers.

I had a look at the plugin code and it seems to use http://xml.amazon.com/onca/xml3?f=xml for retrieving covers. But calling this page up in my browser, it tells me:
"Amazon Ecommerce Web Service 3.0 has been deprecated after many years of useful service on March 31st 2008"
So that is probably the reason why this is not working anymore, right?

Here is the upstream link for that issue:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513851

We've committed a fix for this upstream (http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/rhythmbox/trunk/plugins/artdisplay/artdisplay/AmazonCoverArtSearch.py?r1=5508&r2=5674).

Thanks for the info Jonathan, marking this as fix committed.

This bug was fixed in the package rhythmbox - 0.11.5-0ubuntu3

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rhythmbox (0.11.5-0ubuntu3) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/92_from_svn_fix_amazon_coverts_download.patch:
    - change from svn, fix the amazon coverts download (lp: #209019)
  * debian/patches/93_from_svn_fix_cdda_gvfs_handling.patch:
    - change from svn, switch to the audio cd entry when rhythmbox
      is autostarted or when clicking on an cd icon in nautilus

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:31:12 +0200

Works very good now!
Thanks A LOT for the fix!

Still no covers in new 0.12.0-5ubuntu1 on ubuntu 9.10 beta.

Sorry, I was wrong. It looks for covers, but not for all. For example, it can get cover for Deerhunter, but not for Placebo "Meds" or Radiohead "Kid A". So strange. I mean Placebo or Radiohead much more popular than Deerhunter or Dosh. I'am not sure there is no covers in discogs for them.

The new comment seems a different bug don't reopen this one

I have this problem on Maverick 64-bit. I have Rhythmbox 0.13.1 and the plugin for artwork ('Cover art' checkbox in the 'Configure Plugins' dialog) is enabled. I have an active Internet connection. I haven't checked to see what happens if I play from a library but certainly running music directly through the ODD doesn't pickup album artwork. I had Red Hot Chilli Peppers' 'Stadium Arcadium' playing for over an hour and in all that time it never found the artwork. If it was an obscure album I would be more forgiving. The same behaviour was also exhibited for Nirvana's 'In Utero' - over an hour of playback and no artwork displayed. My machine spec, if this is a factor, is as follows:

Lenovo G550 2958 (laptop) | X64 | Mobile Intel GM45 Express | NVIDIA GeForce G105M | 128GB Crucial RealSSD C300 | Intel Core 2 Extreme Processor (X9100) | Crucial 8GB SODIMM DDR3 | Intel PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh].

Further to my post just (sorry for posting again, I couldn't find any edit function), I tried to get a debug output for Rhythmbox. In the Terminal I ran the following:

rhythmbox -d > ~/rhythm_debug_out.txt

However, despite seeing a lot of activity in the Terminal window the debug file contents seem surprisingly sparse. I tried doing this twice with the same result. Anyway, my test was simply to put Nirvana's 'Nevermind' CD into my ODD and see what happened. I let it run for three minutes on the track called 'Polly' and it never found any album artwork. This happened both times I ran the test. The activity icon was ticking round, indicating that it was doing something, it just never found the album cover. I've attached the log anyway; I hope it helps. If I need to do something else to get a more verbose output then please let me know.

My Rhythmbox 0.12.8 (Ubuntu 10.04.4) seems to fetch its cover arts from Last.fm. After activating the Last.fm Plugin and filling in my account details, the cover art plugin works fine.