FFMPEG audio thumbnailer (ffmpeg-audio-thumbnailer) is a simple audio file thumbnailer for file managers, such as nautilus, dolphin, thunar, and nemo.
ffmpeg-audio-thumbnailer is available in the AUR. The VCS version is also available.
Install using your favorite AUR helper, e.g.,
$ yay -S ffmpeg-audio-thumbnailer
You may also install manually using makepkg to build from the AUR directly (not recommended).
# pacman -S --needed git base-devel
$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/ffmpeg-audio-thumbnailer.git --depth 1
$ cd ffmpeg-audio-thumbnailer
$ makepkg -s --asdeps
# pacman -U ffmpeg-audio-thumbnailer-*-any.pkg.tar.*
Manjaro users: You can install using pamac (aka Add/Remove Software).
$ pamac build ffmpeg-audio-thumbnailer
This package should theoretically work on any Linux distribution with ffmpeg installed. If you'd like support added for your distribution, please open a new issue, after ensuring that nobody else has already requested that distro. If you are a maintainer for a distribution, please don't hesitate to add this package! Alternatively, build and install from the source directly (see below).
After installation, file managers should automatically use the thumbnailer to give new files a thumbnail. To also give existing files a thumbnail, clear the thumbnail cache
$ rm -rf ~/.thumbnails
$ rm -rf ~/.cache/thumbnails
Dependencies:
make(at buildtime)ffmpeg(at runtime)
To install the thumbnailer, run
# make PREFIX=/usr install
Remember that files installed with make install cannot be removed by a package manager. As far as I know, installing thumbnailers in the user's home directory is not supported.
To uninstall, run
# make PREFIX=/usr uninstall
See COPYING.md for details.
