Re: [Banshee-List] HOWTO: Manually creating cover art

[Nyall <nyall zombiepigs net>]

I've given a bit of thought to the whole cover-art issue, and IMO the
proper solution to the problem is to change the artist-album naming
convention to an albumartist-album format. This would then fix cover art
for compilation/various artist albums, and also coverart when tracks
have an artist tag that's slightly different to the rest of the album
(ie, the Mark Ronson example Stephen gave).

Of course, this relies on Banshee understanding and correctly handling
albumartist tags. Again, IMO, the best way to do this is:

- For tracks with musicbrainz "Album Artist" tags, or with the assorted
variations on this tag (albumartist, band, etc...), use this as the
basis for the album artist field. This way, people with their music
properly tagged will see the desired organization, with compilation
albums being correctly grouped together

- For any tracks without any variation of the album artist tag, just
copy the artist tag to the album artist field. This means,
unfortunately, that compilation albums will still be split up across the
artists. HOWEVER, it's no worse than the current banshee behaviour, and
it will only affect ppl with poorly-tagged collections. To generalize,
if someone's got a badly tagged collection, they're probably not going
to notice/care about this :P (If ppl have questions on why their
collection isn't appearing properly, we can direct them to tools like
musicbrainz' picard.)

That's my ideal banshee behaviour anyway! :)

Nyall


On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 00:31 +0100, Stephen Holmes wrote:
> Agreed!  This is for straightforward rip and sync!
> 
> Might be an idea to script a helper converter.  Also it's a pain if you
> have an album like Version-Mark Ronson, where every track but three has
> other participants meaning that the artist-album thing won't work.
> 
> S.
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 16:26 -0700, Jon Cosby wrote:
> > Stephen Holmes wrote:
> > > Folks,
> > > You'll have noticed that you can't yet drag cover art onto a track/album
> > > on Banshee-1.  This feature will be back soon, but in the meantime if
> > > your device is screaming for some visual love, then here's what you need
> > > to do...
> > > 
> > > 1.  Power up a browser and head to Amazon, selecting the Music option in
> > > the dropdown
> > > 2.  Match your Banshee album title with the album in Amazon and select
> > > (where available) the larger of the coverarts available
> > > 3.  Right-click on the image in the browser and select "Save Image
> > > As..."
> > > 
> > > 4.  The image is named as follows...
> > >  
> > >     {Artist Name}-{Album Name}
> > > 
> > > To correctly form this name however, you need to lowercase everything
> > > and remove spaces and punctuation marks.   Examples...
> > > 
> > >     A.  Artist "Barenaked Ladies", Album "Disc One: All Their Greatest
> > > Hits: 1991-2001" would have a cover art file name of "
> > > barenakedladies-disconealltheirgreatesthits19912001.jpg"
> > > 
> > >     B.  Artist "Fun Lovin' Criminals", Album "Come Find Yourself" would
> > > become "funlovincriminals-comefindyourself.jpg"
> > > 
> > > 5.  Copy these files (or save them directly) to ~/.cache/album-art 
> > > 6.  Banshee will pick up the image art next time around.
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks for the information. This could get problematic if you have a lot 
> > of remixed stuff though.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > jon
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