Music Cover Art driving me nuts (1 Viewer)

[dandirk]

So I am a long time Meedio user... I have been trying to get a test MP system up and running for a possible change...

I am running into problems with cover art.

I store my mp3 in this format: Artist/Album/track.mp3 Most of it is properly tagged.

I store my cover art in the Album folder, names folder.png


I am having issues with covert art only showing on individual track listings... If I list by artist, no art. By Album, no art.. Only if I select an Album to show all the tracks will the cover art show for each and every track...

I have tried renaming the folder.png to folder.jpg like the config and FAQ says, no improvement.

I can't really think of another place to logically place the art files because each album art is different, so putting the album art in the album folder seems to make the most sense.

I am sure I am missing something "easy" though I have checked virtually every option except to use imbedded mp3 images because I don't have them...


Maybe I am too used to Meedio, even with the learning curve it seems to be easier and more robust when it comes to file and cover art management... and it stopped development over a year ago.

But I have only spent a few hours with MP... Guess time will tell...

Hell, I was shocked when I didn't see any sort of field to indicate where to grab art from.

 

[rtv]

I am sure you'll get your cover art working soon

For the start:
Although coming from Meedio I guess you're actually not talking of the database driven views but simply browsing "shares view"?

Please make sure your \thumbs\Music\Folder does contain the coverart you are missing.

 

[dandirk]

The only way I got it to work was to change my folder.png to folder.jpg...

MP is not very flexible is it?

 

[rtv]

Just for the case someone else does read this:
This is not correct - if you really tick the setting "*.png, *.jpg (prefers "front" cover)"
then MP will use almost any graphic which can be found in that folder. No matter whether it is called "AlbumArt_{18289833-9C5D-4D3F-9971-F3F9EBDC03E7}_Large.jpg" or "inlay.png" or whatever....

 

[dandirk]

rtv could you clarify???

Seems when ever I have cover art as folder.png, it will pick up art for database views but only the top menu hierarchy. Example... view by artist, each artist has an image, but drill down, albums by said artist will not show images, drill down again to individual tracks and art will show (as it always has for me)

I found the thumbs/music/folder has ONLY populated for me if I use the specific folder.jpg format, if I use folder.png, it does not and I have the problem as above.

I have deleted all thumbs and rebuild the DB multiple times to prove this behavior on my system.

oh and yes I have "really" ticked the setting "*.png, *.jpg (prefers "front" cover)"

I am using the latest stable build... 0.2.3

 

[uggabugga]

Hey dandirk,
Then "mabey" there can be a bug under your circumstances.
All I can say that if it where me that where having this issue, I would surly provide all logs generated by MP(TV3). Now wouldn't that just be a smart thing to do

Take a look...
-=| How to start a support thread |=-

 

[sunflower]

Hi,
I've got a somewhat different problem:
I can't get rid of some covers I want to delete (they came from wrong ID3 tags). But they can't be killed!
I deleted all images in the music folders, deleted the cache directory and deleted the thumbs directory, then did a rescan (disabled the 'use ID3 tags'-checkbox).
But e.g. in the albums view those images are still there. I wonder where they come from. Are they stored in the database?

 

[dandirk]

I found during my trial and error it helps to delete the whole database before a rebuild, especially if you changed your music directories.

I would delete ALL image files with in the thumbs/music directory (and subdirectories), then I would delete the music database... Its in the database folder, very easy to find the right file, says music database lol...

I found that many of the actual images are stored in the thumbs folder, at least I have not tested nor noticed if MP references image locations, I think it copies everything to the thumbs directory (don't quote me on that).

What I suspect is that the database may contain locations of images and unless the items are actually removed from your computer the database will not correct the field... It could then be rebuilding the wrong images, again don't quote me... I am a new user as well...

I didn't run into your specific issue but something similar happened before I started to delete the music database...

It was taking to long to rebuild my music database and images using my full music collection (10k songs). So I copied a few artist folders to another directory to use as a "test" group if you will, so my rebuilds would be quicker.

I removed the share for my full collection and added the share to my test collection.

When I rebuilt the database it was still checking the 10k songs but not removing them from the database. I suspect because the system checked the actual location of the files and since they were still there it kept info on them (though MP did NOT display them, it would just check them EVERY rebuild). Not realizing that those files/location were no longer set as a music share...

Once I deleted the database, the new rebuilds went just fine.

 

[rtv]

rtv could you clarify???

I am using the latest stable build... 0.2.3

Sorry, my fault - since you didn't give further info I was assuming that you were running latest SVN.
Just a few days ago I've added another fix which makes sure the folder cache is always populated correct regardless which settings were chosen.

In general there have been some important music fixes after 0.2.3. So you might want to zip your current MediaPortal dir for a backup and give SVN a try.

 

[dandirk]

I certainly will keep that in mind... though just changing my images to folder.jpg isn't a big deal. I have already changed them 4-5 times trying to figure this out.

Thanks