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).