Cover art not working

[Hunsu]

Hi, It doesn't work for me. See the attached image.

[fossfreedom]

Hi,

if you run rhythmbox from a terminal what errors are reported?

[Hunsu]

(rhythmbox:14631): Gtk-CRITICAL : gtk_css_provider_load_from_path: assertion 'path != NULL' failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/coverart_search_providers/coverart_search_providers.py", line 101, in do_activate self.artist_store = CoverArtExtDB(name="artist-art") File "/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/coverart_search_providers/coverart_extdb.py", line 264, in init CoverArtExtDB.instances[name] = CoverArtExtDB._impl(name) File "/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/coverart_search_providers/coverart_extdb.py", line 95, in __init self.db = gdbm.open(filename, 'c') _gdbm.error: [Errno 22] Argument invalide Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/coverart_browser/coverart_browser_source.py", line 148, in do_selected self.do_impl_activate() File "/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/coverart_browser/coverart_browser_source.py", line 176, in do_impl_activate self._setup_source() File "/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/coverart_browser/coverart_browser_source.py", line 280, in _setup_source self.album_manager = AlbumManager(self.plugin, self.viewmgr.current_view) File "/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/coverart_browser/coverart_album.py", line 1794, in init self.artist_man = ArtistManager(plugin, self, plugin.shell) File "/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/coverart_browser/coverart_artistview.py", line 728, in init self.cover_man = ArtistCoverManager(plugin, self) File "/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/coverart_browser/coverart_artistview.py", line 679, in init self.cover_db = CoverArtExtDB(name='artist-art') File "/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/coverart_search_providers/coverart_extdb.py", line 264, in init CoverArtExtDB.instances[name] = CoverArtExtDB._impl(name) File "/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/coverart_search_providers/coverart_extdb.py", line 95, in __init** self.db = gdbm.open(filename, 'c') _gdbm.error: [Errno 22] Argument invalide

[fossfreedom]

Please can you enable the Python Console plugin Then select from "Tools - Python Console" - a window will appear.

Please copy and paste the following two lines and let me know the result.

from gi.repository import RB
print (RB.user_cache_dir())

[Hunsu]

I got this /home/[myusername]/.cache/rhythmbox

[fossfreedom]

?? why did you close this - has it been resolved?

I need to know the [myusername] - I'm wondering if there is something with the username format that causes the code to crash at this point.

[Hunsu]

The user name is meradi. The problem it's not the user name because in another computer it work. I have copied rhythmbox folder from it.

[fossfreedom]

hmm - nothing wrong with that.

please can you copy and paste the following into the rhythmbox python-console and let me know the result:

from gi.repository import RB
cachedir = RB.user_cache_dir() + "/artist-art"
filename = cachedir + "/store.db"
import gdbm
print (filename)
db = gdbm.open(filename, 'c')
print (db)

if you are using Rhythmbox 3, try this:

from gi.repository import RB
cachedir = RB.user_cache_dir() + "/artist-art"
filename = cachedir + "/store.db"
import dbm.gnu as gdbm
print (filename)
db = gdbm.open(filename, 'c')
print (db)

[Hunsu]

look at the code because there's part of the result that we cannot see. In rb 3 : from gi.repository import RB cachedir = RB.user_cache_dir() + "/artist-art" filename = cachedir + "/store.db" import dbm.gnu as gdbm print (filename) db = gdbm.open(filename, 'c') print (db) /home/meradi/.cache/rhythmbox/artist-art/store.db Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/python-console/pythonconsole.py", line 394, in __run r = eval(command, self.namespace, self.namespace) File "", line 1 from gi.repository import RB ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/python-console/pythonconsole.py", line 398, in __run exec(command, self.namespace) File "", line 6, in _gdbm.error: [Errno 22] Argument invalide in rb 2 : /home/meradi/.cache/rhythmbox/artist-art/store.db <gdbm.gdbm object at 0xa507700>

[fossfreedom]

Sorry about that - should have said please copy and paste each line one at a time not all in one go.

Please disable both coverart-browser and coverart-search-providers and restart rhythmbox Then open the python console and copy and paste one line at a time the following

import dbm.gnu as gdbm
filename='/home/meradi/.cache/rhythmbox/artist-art/store.db'
db = gdbm.open(filename, 'c')
print (db)

What distro are you using? Ubuntu 14.04?

[Hunsu]

I got the same error in the third line : Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/python-console/pythonconsole.py", line 394, in __run r = eval(command, self.namespace, self.namespace) File "", line 1 db = gdbm.open(filename, 'c') ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/python-console/pythonconsole.py", line 398, in __run exec(command, self.namespace) File "", line 1, in _gdbm.error: [Errno 22] Argument invalide No I'm using Ubuntu 13.10 I installed your plugin like explained here http://xpressubuntu.wordpress.com/2013/10/26/installing-rhythmbox-3-0-plugins-the-easy-way/

I forgot to say that the plugin doesn't work even with RB 2 in my new computer.

[fossfreedom]

hmm

from the python console what is the output of the following:

import platform
platform.python_version()

From a terminal what is the output of

which python3

[Hunsu]

From python console I got : 3.3.2+ From terminal : /usr/bin/python3

[fossfreedom]

Please can you delete the folder and everything within that folder '/home/meradi/.cache/rhythmbox/artist-art' and restart rhythmbox

does this fix the error?

[Hunsu]

Yes it solved the problem. Do you figured out why?

[fossfreedom]

not sure.

Have you used coverart-browser before when you were using rhythmbox 2.99 before upgrading to rhythmbox 3.0? Possibly the rhythmbox 3 version cannot read the rhythmbox 2.99 version of the database in that cache folder.

I note that there was a very recent python3 update in 13.10 - maybe that introduced a compatibility issue - possibly you were using coverart-browser successfully, then you did an update and the update broke the database found in that cache folder.

Let me know and if necessary I'll add a note in the readme file.

[Hunsu]

I installed RB 2 then I copied the folders from my old computer. When I enabled the plugins I noticed that they didn't work. After that I installed RB3. Thanks for the help.

Do you know how I get back the browse button. I have it only when I'm on party mode.

[fossfreedom]

interesting - I'll have a closer look at what happens if I copy a database from RB2 to RB3.

Sounds like this is a scenario I didnt cater for - may require a tweak or two.