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Originally Posted by rtv  Yes - depending on the view MP will try to use the high-quality thumb wherever possible. |
Apparently, I forgot about the thumb in Thumbs\Music\Folder.
Now, I cleared the entire thumb cache and started Mediaportal. Then I went into Shares and checked - MP now automatically displays album art (from folder.jpg) for Chicane - Behind the Sun. I check the Thumbs\Music\Folder - there are thumbs called 3046124073.jpg and 3046124073L.jpg, corresponding to the album art. Then I click the album in MP to see the files - no art is shown for the files. I check \Thumbs\Music\Albums - no files there. I try to play one of the songs, I enter and exit the folder and restart MP a few times - nothing. I change from Shares to Album view and repeat the procedure - nothing.
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Originally Posted by rtv No - this just means that the AMG lookup does not correctly generate both thumbs and cache them. |
But the same thing happens when I'm using the Audioscrobbler plugin, and when importing from a folder.jpg. It's not restricted to the internal art lookup app. From what I can tell, it seems that MP correctly caches one of the thumb sets, either the one in Folder\ or the one in Albums\ but never both, depending on what method I'm using to import them:
* Auto-importing from folder.jpg - creates jpgs in Thumbs\Music\Folder\ - displays only for albums and folders.
* Importing from within MP by right-clicking a *song* and choosing "Show album\artist info" ("Find cover art" doesn't work with songs, only with folders, for some reason) - creates a jpg ("small" version) in Thumbs\Music\Albums. Fiddling with views and layout does not produce a "large" version of the jpg.
* Importing from within MP by right-clicking an *album folder* and choosing "Find cover art" - creates jpgs in \Thumbs\Music\Folder *and* a "small" jpg in \Albums\ - displays for both album, folder and songs. (This seems to work sometimes, but sometimes it doesn't. Haven't been able to figure out when it works and when it doesn't yet.) However, downloading a new cover art the same way only replaces the one in \Folder\ and the new art only displays for albums or folders: Songs still have the old art.
* Importing from Audioscrobbler plugin - creates jpgs in \Albums\ (both sizes) - only displays for individual songs, never for albums/folders. Fiddling around with changing views, layout etc does nothing.
* Importing with "Find cover art" for an album which already has art showing for its songs but not for its album/folder - creates jpgs in \Folder\, does not replace the old jpgs already present in \Albums\.
I've replicated this behaviour on three different PC's, all with distinctly different hardware and running both the latest SVN snapshots and the original RC3. I've tried fiddling with Configuration settings for thumbs, turning stuff on and off and while it might change some things, this basic behaviour never changes.
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Originally Posted by rtv It's very important that you check the thumbs\music\folder dir (use preview pics) |
Yep, thanks for pointing that out.
Note that I've deliberately used different cover art for folders and files (there are often several variants available to download) so that I could keep track if any were replaced or not. This is how I know which files have been replaced and which ones have not.
EDIT: Clarified some stuff.