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How to change Rhythmbox's Visible Columns Order instead of "Title - Genre - Artist - Album" to be "Title - Artist - Album - Genre" ?

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    It's ridiculous but to be knowledge it's not possible. There's a bug report [here](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/36413). – duxk.gh May 03 '13 at 13:45

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Rhythmbox does not have this capability built in. It is a request that's been hanging around since 2003.

However, Rhythmbox does have the ability to include external plugin modules - these provide extra capabilities and because of Rhythmbox's rich API allows those modules to actually change core Rhythmbox capabilities.

Thus - this is what I've done. I've adapted my plugin called alternative-toolbar to include just this capability - you can now drag by the column header to any position you required.

before & after… enter image description here Artist has been moved to the more logical position after the title & the genre has been moved from the end to a more prominent position.

To install this, use the package rhythmbox-plugin-alternative-toolbar from my PPA as explained in this Q&A.

Alternatively, hop over onto the project website and install via Git or stable release.

In all cases you need v0.16 or later.

Source for this answer is my blog.

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