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# Thumbnails Plugin

The `thumbnails` plugin creates thumbnails for your album folders with the album cover. This works on freedesktop.org-compliant file managers such as Nautilus or Thunar, and is therefore POSIX-only.

To use the `thumbnails` plugin, enable `thumbnails` and FetchArt Plugin in your configuration (see Using Plugins) and install `beets` with `thumbnails` and `fetchart` extras

    pip install "beets[fetchart,thumbnails]"

`thumbnails` need to resize the covers, and therefore requires either ImageMagick or Pillow.

## Configuration

To configure the plugin, make a `thumbnails` section in your configuration file. The available options are

- auto: Whether the thumbnail should be automatically set on import. Default: `yes`.

- force: Generate the thumbnail even when there’s one that seems fine (more recent than the cover art). Default: `no`.

- dolphin: Generate dolphin-compatible thumbnails. Dolphin (KDE file explorer) does not respect freedesktop.org’s standard on thumbnails. This functionality replaces the Freedesktop Plugin Default: `no`

## Usage

The `thumbnails` command provided by this plugin creates a thumbnail for albums that match a query (see Queries).