Thunar Media Tags Plugin

The Thunar Media Tags Plugin was written by Jannis Pohlmann and provides a media tag based renamer module and an additional page for the file properties dialog of audio files. The renamer allows users to rename multiple media files at once using the tags stored within these files (for example ID3 tags in case of MP3 files). The properties page enables users to edit media tags (for example ID3 tags) from within Thunars file properties dialog.

The plugin is not part of the Thunar distribution, but it is maintained as part of the Xfce Goodies project, where you can find download locations for the plugin. See the official website for futher details.

In order to install the Thunar Media Tags Plugin, you’ll need to have Thunar and taglib installed (both the runtime and the development packages, for example in case of Debian/Ubuntu, you will also need libthunar-vfs-1-dev and libtag1-dev).

Grab the latest version of the thunar-media-tags-plugin source tarball from the Xfce Goodies download page, and extract it using the following command:

tar xjf thunar-media-tags-plugin-VERSION.tar.bz2

The plugin must be installed in the same prefix where Thunar is installed, else Thunar will not be able to load the plugin. You can use the following command to determine the installation prefix of Thunar:

pkg-config --variable=prefix thunarx-1

Now you can install the plugin as usual. The following commands assume that Thunar is installed in /usr/local. If it is installed in another directory on your system, change the prefix appropriately.

cd thunar-media-tags-plugin-VERSION
./configure --prefix="/usr/local"
make
sudo make install
cd ..

Finally, you will need to restart Thunar to be able to use the plugin. If Thunar was built with D-BUS support, you can simply use the following command:

Thunar -q

This will terminate the running Thunar instance in your current session. Now start Thunar as usual and enjoy the newly installed plugin.