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only me currently :)
But if you want to code something, I'd be happy to help you, for both perl code or integration into gmb code.
Feel free to drop by on irc : #gmusicbrowser on freenode.net

Album covers are not automatically downloaded, but pictures files in the songs folders are used if found (not reimplemented in development version 1.1.x yet).
What you are missing is maybe configuring the browser to show the found covers, by right-clicking on the album list (it will be the default in the future), or by adding the cover column in the song list (right-click on column headers) (You can also use the "with SongTree" browser layout which can display album covers in prettier ways)

and manual searches through google images do not return any hits. Am I missing something----please help.

strange, maybe you can run gmb from a terminal and show me the output when searching for covers in google images.

It's not possible currently, I'll add it, don't know when. Probably with the possibility of choosing the "preferred" year.

The only way you can get this result currently is by giving songs labels corresponding to their year (or decade) and set a probability for each of these labels.

I guess you are using v1.1.x, there was a very small bug that prevented it : http://bit.ly/bx39bn
I tested it with a few songs, it seems to work. :)
When I let it whole all the data, it died with when getting an error 500 from last.fm, maybe it was just a fluke, or maybe the page requests to last.fm should be less frequent, I don't know.

About the plugin for songbird: interesting, maybe one day I'll do it, but I've got a lot of more urgent things to do. Especially since, as I said, multiple versions of the same song can't really work with this.

The main problem is that in last.fm ignores different version of songs : all songs with same title and same artist are considered as one song :(
That said, Bor81 made a script that imported playcounts from last.fm : http://bor.org.ua/projects/lastfm2gmb/
see this thread in the old forum :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmusicbrowser/forums/forum/493124/topic/3271226

Sorry it's not possible, I've wanted to fix that for a long time, and somehow never gotten around to it. :(
I'm going to rewrite that part in v1.1.x soon, so it's a bit late to fix it now.

it seems there is another way to load modules than using GTK_MODULES.
Looking at the gnome2-globalmenu doc, there is a way to disable it for specific apps by using GTK_MENUBAR_NO_MAC.
So you can put :

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export GTK_MENUBAR_NO_MAC="gmusicbrowser gmusicbrowser.pl $GTK_MENUBAR_NO_MAC"
in for example ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile, and then logout
(the gmusicbrowser.pl is only there in case you want to run a non-installed version)

The gmb menus are not very standard because of the way I fill them only when needed. I know that's why I could make them work with keyboard accelerators, and it's probably also the problem with global-menus.
I plan to make them always filled (by updating them each time a change has been made), which should fix this problem.

In the meantime, I know that adding this line :

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BEGIN { $ENV{GTK_MODULES}=""; }
after the first line of /usr/bin/gmusicbrowser (gmusicbrowser.pl if not installed) will disable the global-menu for gmusicbrowser, so that at least the menu works.
Another way to do it is by launching gmusicbrowser via a shell script such as this one :

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!#/bin/sh
export GTK_MODULES=
exec gmusicbrowser


I'm not sure I can help you, as I don't have much experience in audio configuration.
Looking around a bit, I found the commands "aplay -L" and "aplay -l" that could give interesting informations.
The output of "mplayer -v REPLACE_ME_WITH_AN_AUDIO_FILE" could also be interesting.
Post the output of these commands and I'll see if it gives me ideas.

It's a feature, I've made that choice long ago when I started developing gmb. But thinking about it, I should make it an option, and maybe make it the default.

Oui c'est normal, gmb est fait pour gérer une collection de mp3/... pas une collection de CDs.
Je ne pense pas que j'ajouterai la possibilité de lire des CDs directement. La meilleur façon de lire un CD est de le convertir en mp3/ogg/flac :)

The "write id3v2.4 tags" only affect tag creation (ie: when there is no id3v2 tag in the file). Which is not said in the tooltip as I thought, I'll have to fix that.
The fix I mentioned works with the file you sent me without checking the id3v2.4 option (not that it should matter). The file you sent me has an id3v2.3 tag with a TYER set to 2006 and a TDRC set to 2007. Without the fix, gmb only set TYER (as it's a id3v2.3 tag), with the fix, it delete TDRC too, as it shouldn't be there in an id3v2.3 tag.

If you still have files with which you can't set the year (with or without the id3v2.4 option), send one to me by email.

Thanks for the file, the problem was that gmb was setting the TYER id3v2.3 frame, but the TDRC id3v2.4 frame was present and left untouched. And gmb reads the first TYER/TDRC it finds.
I fixed it by deleting TYER frame from id3v2.4 tags and TDRC frame from id3v2.3 tags when setting the year.
(TYER is deprecated in id3v2.4 and replaced by TDRC)
I've committed the fix in git earlier today.

I can't reproduce it (tried with both 1.0.x and 1.1.x), maybe your mp3 files have something special.
You can send one to me by email if you want.
Have you tried setting the tag with a brand new gmb ? ie : launching gmb with the option "-C /tmp/doesnotexist", adding the file and editing the year tag.

Sorry, the auto-detection is a feature of gstreamer (http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-good-plugins/html/gst-plugins-good-plugins-autoaudiosink.html), maybe they would accept a bug about it, I don't know.