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Display The Playing Song As A Widget on Elementary OS Desktop

Last updated: March 21, 2019

CoverGloobus is a simple application that displays the cover and the info of playing song on your desktop as a nice widget.

If you have been using Ubuntu for years, you may have heard of CoverGloobus. The project was last updated 4 years ago, but it’s still working good on Ubuntu 12.04. I’ve tested it on Elementary OS Luna, here are the screenshots:

covergloobus eos
 

CoverGloobus downloads lyrics and covers from internet and supports the most popular music plays, including Amarok2, Audacious, Banshee, Deadbeef, Exaile, gmusicbrowser, MOC, MPD, Rhythmbox, VLC, Songbird, Totem, and more.

Install:

Download and install the DEB:

CoverGloobus 1.7.3 for 32 bit

CoverGloobus 1.7.3 for 64 bit

Once installed, open it from Application Menu and right click on the widget to configure the player, themes, etc.

To make it work with Noise music player, download the below package, extract and paste the “Noise.py” & “Noise.pyc” files to /usr/share/covergloobus/players

Noise_Player_Covergloobus.zip

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    6 responses to Display The Playing Song As A Widget on Elementary OS Desktop

    1. Hamdan June 17, 2014 at 12:57 pm

      I can’t install it’s says
      Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: python-xlib

    2. eos_user February 11, 2015 at 7:26 am

      I followed your instructions, but it doesn’t work on EOS Freya. Any suggestions? Thanks

    3. Feri June 28, 2015 at 6:27 am

      feri@eOS:~$ sudo dpkg -i ‘/home/feri/Downloads/covergloobus_1.7.3_i386.deb’
      (Reading database … 226169 files and directories currently installed.)
      Preparing to replace covergloobus 1.7.3 (using …/covergloobus_1.7.3_i386.deb) …
      Unpacking replacement covergloobus …
      Setting up covergloobus (1.7.3) …
      Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils …
      Processing triggers for bamfdaemon …
      Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index…
      Processing triggers for gnome-menus …
      Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme …
      feri@eOS:~$ covergloobus
      core.settings:WARNING: Configuration file not found
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File “/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.py”, line 846, in emit
      msg = self.format(record)
      File “/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.py”, line 723, in format
      return fmt.format(record)
      File “/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.py”, line 464, in format
      record.message = record.getMessage()
      File “/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.py”, line 328, in getMessage
      msg = msg % self.args
      TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting
      Logged from file covergloobus.py, line 79

      any solutions?

      • Dave January 21, 2017 at 1:54 pm

        I get that too. I really need a solution.

        • pablo rocha February 23, 2017 at 4:05 pm

          easy …put this
          # D-Bus
          if which dbus-launch >/dev/null && test -z “$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS”; then
          eval “$(dbus-launch –sh-syntax –exit-with-session)”
          fi
          ## in this file .xsessionrc in home folder restart and works