Re: [Banshee-List] Need feature back: manually set album art

[Andrew Conkling <andrew andrewski net>]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 13:24, Nicholas Doyle <niskel gmail com> wrote:

On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 13:06 -0400, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> I'm not sure what CJK is, but adding a file named "cover" or "folder"
> in the directory with the tracks should introduce the art to Banshee;
> you should never have to mess with the cache folder itself.
>
> If you try that, does it work for you?

CJK is "Chinese, Japanese, and Korean". So basically problems with
unicode characters. I have been having a number of personal gripes with
the cover-art system as it is in it's current form.

Ah, cheers; I didn't realize that.

This sounds like this bug then: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520516. Sadly, it doesn't seem to have gotten a lot of attention lately, but I hope it will be fixed soon.

As far as using album artist and album title verbatim, this is very
important.

Yes, that's the scope of the bug.
 

Also, trying to track down cover art and place a cover.jpg or a
folder.jpg in an album's folder is a PITA and broken for a number of
reasons.

What should happen is that if you update your cover art externally, e.g. MusicBrainz Picard or Cowbell or Ex Falso, etc., Banshee should pick up on that. If not, Banshee will automatically retrieve and download matching cover art and place that in the cache folder. (This second process also seems to be broken by the bug above, by the way.) Certainly no one is suggesting you should be managing the cover art files manually in your folders. :)

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