Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee arbitrarily rejecting non-corrupt JPEG album art

[Alan McGovern <alan mcgovern gmail com>]

Hey,

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Jud Craft <craftjml gmail com> wrote:

Yes, I use cover.jpg as the name for each file.

No, each folder only contains one album.  Without question.  I have
taken quite some time reorganizing my music library, and the folder
structure is not the problem.

Would it be something, anything, with the files themselves?

 

If you attach a 'broken' image to a bug report then it may help answer that question, otherwise we can only say "maybe" ;)

Alan.

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Bertrand Lorentz
<bertrand lorentz gmail com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 11:07 -0500, Jud Craft wrote:
>> Hello there.  I know people have had problems with Banshee's album art
>> before, and I have seen many posts.  However, I have my own peculiar
>> spin on it.  If this has been answered before, I apologize.
>>
>> I decided I wanted no ambiguity about whether Banshee was reading my
>> art, so I disabled the "Fetch Cover Art from Internet" extension.
>> Then I imported my library into Banshee.
>>
>> There are several pieces of album art from my collection (all in JPG
>> format, as far I can tell by the extensions) that do not display in
>> Banshee.  I cannot figure out why.  At times, the GNOME Image Viewer
>> tells me "this image file is corrupt."  I then load it into GIMP
>> (which can read it okay), and then resave it to JPG, and it works.
>>
>> But there are many images Banshee cannot read that seem to be
>> perfectly valid JPG files.  The GNOME Viewer gives me no "corrupt
>> image file" warning, and they display fine in any other program,
>> including Rhythmbox.  I know for certain that Banshee is not
>> downloading cover art, so many of my albums simply have no art.  Does
>> anyone have any idea why?
>>
>> It is worth noting that they are not of uniform size:  some are
>> 200x200, others 500x500, 460x400, all manner of strange sizes.  But
>> Banshee can display the non-square images (such as the 460x400 one)
>> fine, so I didn't think size/ratio was a problem.
>
> I guess your cover art is stored as files in the album folders ?
> Banshee is looking for file with specific names and extension, like
> "cover.jpg", "folder.jpg" or "front.jpg".
>
> It's also trying to be smart and is not looking for cover art if it
> looks like the folder does not only contain tracks from the same album.
> This algorithm and potential issues with it are discussed in details in
> this bug :
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570155
>
> --
> Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com>
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