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.