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

["Gilbert Mendoza" <gmendoza gmail com>]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Raenock <raenock gmail com> wrote:
>
> I disabled "cover art fetching" because all of my mp3s have cover art
> embedded with itunes, but when importing them into banshee, theres no files
> with visible covers, and after i play one, banshee downloads its cover but
> still ignores the embedded one. any ideas?


This is an open bug.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388162

When you disable cover art fetching, it only prevents the downloading
of cover art on import.  When you play a track or album, regardless of
the state your cover art plugin, Banshee downloads the artwork.
Banshee however also extracts the embedded cover art to a separate
file which is not used for display.  So when you play something, you
are left with two images:

artist-album.cover (extracted file)
artist-album.jpg (downloaded file)

If you're using Linux, see comment #12.  I added a bash script that
you run which deletes all the jpg files, and copies the extracted
cover files over to .jpg's.  This way Banshee displays the correct
artwork.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388162#c12

If you don't use Linux, the script can be ported to other
environments, so just let us know.  I hope the bug will be addressed
at some point though.

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