Thumbnails Plugin#
The thumbnails
plugin creates thumbnails for your album folders with the
album cover. This works on freedesktop.org-compliant file managers such as
Nautilus or Thunar, and is therefore POSIX-only.
To use the thumbnails
plugin, enable thumbnails
and
FetchArt Plugin in your configuration (see Using Plugins) and
install beets
with thumbnails
and fetchart
extras
pip install "beets[fetchart,thumbnails]"
thumbnails
need to resize the covers, and therefore requires either
ImageMagick or Pillow.
Configuration#
To configure the plugin, make a thumbnails
section in your configuration
file. The available options are
auto: Whether the thumbnail should be automatically set on import. Default:
yes
.force: Generate the thumbnail even when there’s one that seems fine (more recent than the cover art). Default:
no
.dolphin: Generate dolphin-compatible thumbnails. Dolphin (KDE file explorer) does not respect freedesktop.org’s standard on thumbnails. This functionality replaces the Freedesktop Plugin Default:
no
Usage#
The thumbnails
command provided by this plugin creates a thumbnail for
albums that match a query (see Queries).