Take album art from Directory (1 Viewer)

[Lolita]

How can i made mediaportal take album pictures from directory? I have it all (except one) in <artist> - <album>\<artist> - <album>.jpg format

Also how to delete (yes i know media portal will not do that ) all album art from tags and auto insert resized versions of it? I have manualy dlled covers so i have some like 2MB arts in tags and its quite useless.

 

[onkl]

MP will look for a folder.jpg file. some utilities existed to rename or copy-rename your jpeg's, but don't remember which.

 

[Lolita]

Hmm, and why folder.jpg? I saw it in some mp3s i dlled \:, but which program generate this?

 

[onkl]

Hmm, and why folder.jpg? I saw it in some mp3s i dlled \:, but which program generate this?

It's the Windows & Windows media player standard.
This topic on another forum may give you some hints how to rename all *jpg files to folder.jpg.
1-4a Rename seems to do the job (though various others will undoubtably do as well.)

 

[Lolita]

Hmm but i don't want to chenge my naming convesion, i will use images in tags, but i need to delete them first ...

Btw i didn't know, that windows madia player can download album art

 

[fathead]

On this note, is there anyway of stopping MP downloading the cover art? I refer to the DVD section mainly as I love the IMDB lookup feature, but I already have cover art & don't want it replaced. Is it possible to have the IMDB lookup, but not the cover art?

 

[onkl]

Hmm but i don't want to chenge my naming convesion, i will use images in tags, but i need to delete them first ...

Btw i didn't know, that windows madia player can download album art

Didn't mean that WMP can actually dl art (might be, dunno), but that WMP looks for folder.jpg and thus a lot of programs have adapted to this pseudostandard.
I don't think you'll have to delete your *.jpg's, MP will just ignore them (remember that you have to tick some setting to let MP look for art in tags before scanning your collection.)

 

[zag2me]

Would be cool if media portal could show any cover that has *front* in the filename, that would solve all the problems.

 

[Lolita]

Not for me, but some settings for this would be nice ...

 

[tourettes]

Why not just stick with the standard and use folder.jpg? Standards are made for a reason.