Jamendo direct download with Rhythmbox [HowTo]

While Rhythmbox allows you to download songs from Jamendo via BitTorrent, that method is horribly broken as there are pretty much no seeders. Here’s a quick tutorial to have Rhythmbox open your browser at Jamendo’s direct download page.

Backup JamendoSource.py to be sure to be able to recover eventual breakages:

sudo cp /usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/jamendo/JamendoSource.py /usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/jamendo/JamendoSource.backup

Open JamendoSource.py with your favorite editor

sudo geany /usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/jamendo/JamendoSource.py

Find line 299 (or look for “mp32_uri” using your editor search function), right after:

formats["ogg3"] = ogg3_uri + albumid

Insert those new lines (be sure to use (3) tabs for indenting !)

			p2plink = "http://www.jamendo.com/en/download/album/" + albumid #formats[format]
			gtk.show_uri(self.props.shell.props.window.get_screen(), p2plink, gtk.gdk.CURRENT_TIME)
			return

Save and close the file.

Now we’re gonna regenerate the precompiled python file. First remove the old one (note the trailing ‘c’ in the filename):

sudo rm /usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/jamendo/JamendoSource.pyc

Compiling time. (it will throw an error in the console. Don’t worry, it’s ok!)

cd /usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/jamendo/
sudo python -m JamendoSource.py

If everything went ok you should see this error in the console:

/usr/bin/python: No module named rb

Now close rhythmbox (press Ctrl+Q, don’t just close the window) and open it again.

Time to try it out now. Connect to jamendo and try to download an album, a new browser window will open, and your download will be just a click away. (the page contains ads, which, in my opinion is totally fair)

As a final thing, I suggest you to make a backup copy of the file in your home directory somewhere, should you need to reapply the modifications after an upgrade.

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