Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee 1.2.1 ignoring embedded cover art

[Jon Cosby <jon jcosby com>]

MercuryShadow wrote:
> Trust me, they are different.  The cover art that Banshee downloaded has an
> extra strip of color down the left side.
>
> There are several more examples, such as bootleg recordings that I own which
> don't have covers, for which I have embedded a "No Cover Available" image,
> that Banshee just doesn't have artwork for.
>
> I'll check out that bug report and see if there is anything that I can
> contribute.

Doing some experimenting I see it does try to download cover art first, 
and sometimes gets strange results. I guess it just hadn't been a 
problem for me before. I should have read the original post more 
carefully :>)


jon

> Jon Cosby wrote:
> > MercuryShadow wrote:
> > > Here is a screenshot of two applications.  On the left is Mp3tag,
> > > installed
> > > under Wine, which is showing the actual embedded artwork for the track. 
> > > On
> > > the right is Banshee.  I've imported a single album to the library, and
> > > Banshee has needlessly downloaded album art instead of using the embedded
> > > art.
> > >
> > > http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3002/2840004685_715853148e.jpg?v=0
> > >
> > > There is a clear difference, here.  Amarok works just fine using the
> > > embedded artwork.  In fact, every application that I've used can see the
> > > embedded artwork.... except Banshee.
> > The covers in the linked image look the same to me. Am I missing 
> > something? Banshee does find the embedded art by my experience. 
> > Personally I have the cover art fetcher disabled. Also, if changes are 
> > made to the metadata (album artist or title), you must either remove and 
> > import the album again, or rename the cover art files in
> > ~/.cache/album-art (albumartist-albumtitle).
> >
> >
> > jon
> >
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