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Last month, we began discussing how to use Rhythmbox to manage your music collection. We’ll wrap that up this month in the installment I have imaginatively labeled ‘Managing Music With Rhythmbox – Part 3’.
Rhythmbox shows this main default screen:
As detailed last month, Rhythmbox creates the ‘My Top Rated’ playlist, seen on the left-hand side, as a default list. As you provide a rating for a given track in the track properties, any four- or five-star rated tracks get assigned to this playlist. But there’s an easier way to do this than right-clicking each track individually and selecting the track’s Properties, the procedure explained in the last column.
Rhythmbox Preferences
Refer back to our screenshot at the top of this article and look at the top of the screen. You’ll see a ‘button’ that looks like three short, parallel, horizontal lines. This is a common icon in Linux applications and is often colloquially referred to as a ‘hamburger menu’:
Click the hamburger menu and select Preferences. The default pane that will come up is General:
Select the Rating box.. A Rating column will appear by default, where you can now easily add ratings for your tracks with a single mouse click:
You can click however many stars you want to give each track, out of a possible five. Once you’ve done this, the track will show up in the My Top Rated playlist, if you’ve given the track a four- or five-star rating:
As we said last month, the music in that playlist will automatically sort by higher to lower rated. Your 5-star tunes will be at the top, 4-star music at the bottom.
Adding New Music
Once Rhythmbox has done its original scan of your local music, any new music you add will need to be manually imported. Refer back to the screenshot at the beginning of this month’s column once more and you’ll see an ellipsis button at the top, just to the left of the hamburger menu:
Click your Music library on the left side of the screen, then click the ellipsis button and you’ll get a menu at the top that includes Import:
Select Import and choose ‘Select a location containing music to add to your library‘, then navigate to the folder location of your new music to import it into your Music library (above).
If your new Music isn’t in the Music folder or a subfolder within it, you’ll need to pick ‘Other’, then navigate to where the new files are that you want to add. If you want Rhythmbox to copy the new files to your Music folder location (set up by default in Linux under your userID’s Home folder), click the checkbox for ‘Copy files that are outside the Music library’.
Select the files you want to add to your library. Click the first one, then hold Shift and click the last desired file to select all the files in-between, or click any non-contiguous files individually by holding down the CTRL key on your keyboard while selecting. This is the default convention for selecting files in Linux dialogue boxes or the file manager. Drag the files to the Music library on the left to begin the process of adding them:
Click ‘Close’ to complete the process. The new files will also now show up in the Recently Added default playlist on the left-hand side. Boogie on!