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I know that there's several ways to get album art, but I have several multi-disk albums with different art per disk, as well as a large amount of singles with their own album art. I like the "<Unknown> Artist" grouping for the latter and don't want to separate them into individual one-track albums, but I would like some way of seeing their art. I have it embedded into the file, and I was thinking that a hierarchy of art might be a nice implementation: if the playing track has an embedded picture (set to "front cover"), gmb would choose that for the Cover widget and notifications; otherwise it would look at album art and then artist picture. When the picture is not dependent on the current song (in the SongTree and dropdown menus, for example), only the album art specified through "Set picture" would be used. I'm not sure how easy it would be to code or how large of a performance drop would result, but I think that neither would be too expensive (especially if some of the album art selection code is able to be re-purposed). Of course, it's a completely aesthetic change and so would be rather low priority, but it might be a nice thing to take a look at during some idle time.

I've been working on an extended quodlibet layout recently (it's over in the "Customization" forum if anyone wants to look at it), and have recently added a SimpleSearch to the filters. Unfortunately, what I know how to write can only put it either above the tabs at the top or below the buttons for the filter pane; I'd like it to be between that pane and the buttons. I know the hidebb=1 to remove the buttons completely, but I can't find any way to get them to reappear on the other side of the search bar.

Also, is there any way to get the FilterPane buttons to affect the SimpleSearch more directly? The "Clear filter" button does remove the limitation, but is there any way to get it to clear the search bar as well? And the "Invert filter" button has no effect at all on the search, from what I've seen. Is there any way to get it working as a "everything except songs matching the pattern"?

Just figured that I might as well put my personal layout up here, for anyone who might want it. It started as simply the built-in Quodlibet with a SongTree replacing the plain library view, but I've been adding features as I find them interesting. Most useful so far have been the multiple filter tabs and the Stop button replacing the Close, but, honestly, I don't remember everything I added. If you would like any code tweaks or even tweak it yourself, feel free to post them—this is not a final layout, and I'm always happy with suggestions for improvement.

EDIT 2/12/12: Added counter widget and support for discname field. Also renamed file/layout, so old customizations may need to be recreated.

I've finally found a music browser/manager that I like in gmusicbrowser! One of the few obvious improvements I can think of is extending the Notify plugin. In my case, I have enabled the "Version" tag and usually differentiate different versions of a song solely through that field. The "Now Playing" at the top (I'm using a modified Quodlibit layout) displays the contents of that tag beside the title, but I can't see any way to place the version in the notification popup. I have looked at the code for the plugin, but I'm not a perl programmer and the only thing I could figure out was that there was a call to a MakeReplaceText function for listing the parameters in the tooltip.

Does anyone know how to add more fields to what the plugin parses? I don't see a need for more one-letter replacements, unless that's the best way to do it, but something like %version or %discname where any tag can be specified would probably be helpful to more people than just me. Thanks!