Re: [Banshee-List] Not all user supplied cover art files recognized in Banshee 1.4.3

[rickstone <rhadenstone gmail com>]

Unfortunately, this is not the case.  90% of my music has a folder.jpg with
the cover art in the folder, and quite often (possibly 50% of the time) this
is ignored.  I've tried deleting the hidden folder with cover art to force
Banshee to rescan, but each time the result is the same.  Among the many
things not working right or as stated in Banshee, it would be extremely
helpful to revamp the way that cover art is used/shown.  Not to beat a dead
horse, but the way that it's done in the 1.4.x branch of Amarok is much more
elegant and makes it easier for the user to change out or choose the cover
art of their choosing.


Andy Underhill wrote:
> 
> Hi Rizlaw,
> 
> The cover art can be called "cover.jpg" or "folder.jpg", more
> complicated names like "The Beatles - Hard Days Night.jpg" are ignored.
> My directories have many jpgs ("front.jpg", "back.jpg", "booklet.jpg"
> etc) so I imagine that people like me are why the devs chose to look for
> only specific names, otherwise you might end up with a situation where
> people are unahappy about the particular one that has been chosen as the
> album art.
> 
> This does bring up the idea of the "Now Playing" option cycling through
> all the jpgs in the albums folder.......that would be rather nice.
> 
> Cheers
> -=: Andy Underhill :=-
> 
> On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 10:48 -0700, Rizlaw wrote:
> 
>> The Banshee FAQ states the following with respect to cover art:
>> 
>> Where does Banshee get its cover art?
>>     Banshee looks first in the audio file itself for embedded artwork,
>> then
>> in the folder the file is in, then from Rhapsody, then Amazon, then
>> finally
>> Last.fm.
>> 
>> While I have seen one recent post about cover art failing to be
>> recognized,
>> I haven't seen an answer as to why Banshee is unable to pick up and use
>> any
>> "jpg" file located in a music folder in view of the FAQ answer above. The
>> FAQ does not clearly state whether the cover art file needs to be named
>> in
>> any particular way or have a specific file type. Therefore, I have to
>> assume
>> that pretty much any file name will do: i.e., cover.jpg, folder.jpg, The
>> Beatles - Hard Days Night.jpg, etc.
>> 
>> In other words, if the music folder has a jpg file in it, shouldn't
>> Banshee,
>> 100% of the time, be able to use it as the cover art for the tracks in
>> that
>> folder? 
>> 
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