Shares view: AlbumArt for multiple albums? (1 Viewer)

[jmbillings]

Not sure if this has been discussed before (or can already be done and I just don't know how!) but I use shares view for the music. I only get the album art shown for occasions where the art is in the immediate folder down. The vast majority of stuff is in the format of

<artist folder>
<album 1>
<album 2>

and so on. Now, in Windows Media Player (as you prolly know...), for these types of folders, it actually creates a little albumart thingy with the art from each album together in a kind of "fanned out" way. Is this possible in MP? If not, is it at least possible to show one of the albums artwork in the main view? Cuz all I have is loads of little folders...

 

[rtv]

Just put a folder.jpg / cover.png / front.jpg / whatever in the folder you want an image for.
Then activate "Use for thumb creation: *.png, *jpg (prefers "front" cover)" and rescan your collection with
"Update database from selected shares".


If you do not want to do this manually there's a decent solution if your ID3-Tags are correct:
1. Sign up for free on Last.fm ? The Social Music Revolution
2. Use the "audioscrobbler" plugin to fetch covers for all albums and artists
3. Enable "Use existing album thumbs to: create missing folder.jpg"
4. Rescan your collection with "Update database from selected shares".

This will save a folder.jpg in all your album directories.