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

[Nyall <nyall zombiepigs net>]

I forgot to add - since Banshee defaults to using MusicBrainz data for
newly-ripped CDs, anyone who rips their collection using Banshee will
see the desired behaviour without having to think about anything :)


> 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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