beets/docs/plugins/thumbnails.rst
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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
:doc:`/plugins/fetchart` in your configuration (see :ref:`using-plugins`) and
install ``beets`` with ``thumbnails`` and ``fetchart`` extras
.. code-block:: bash
pip install "beets[fetchart,thumbnails]"
``thumbnails`` need to resize the covers, and therefore requires either
`ImageMagick`_ or `Pillow`_.
.. _Pillow: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow
.. _ImageMagick: https://www.imagemagick.org/
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 :doc:`/plugins/freedesktop`
Default: ``no``
Usage
-----
The ``thumbnails`` command provided by this plugin creates a thumbnail for
albums that match a query (see :doc:`/reference/query`).