Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee arbitrarily rejecting non-corrupt JPEG album art

[Jud Craft <craftjml gmail com>]

Yes, I use cover.jpg as the name for each file.

No, each folder only contains one album.  Without question.  I have
taken quite some time reorganizing my music library, and the folder
structure is not the problem.

Would it be something, anything, with the files themselves?


On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Bertrand Lorentz
<bertrand lorentz gmail com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 11:07 -0500, Jud Craft wrote:
>> Hello there.  I know people have had problems with Banshee's album art
>> before, and I have seen many posts.  However, I have my own peculiar
>> spin on it.  If this has been answered before, I apologize.
>>
>> I decided I wanted no ambiguity about whether Banshee was reading my
>> art, so I disabled the "Fetch Cover Art from Internet" extension.
>> Then I imported my library into Banshee.
>>
>> There are several pieces of album art from my collection (all in JPG
>> format, as far I can tell by the extensions) that do not display in
>> Banshee.  I cannot figure out why.  At times, the GNOME Image Viewer
>> tells me "this image file is corrupt."  I then load it into GIMP
>> (which can read it okay), and then resave it to JPG, and it works.
>>
>> But there are many images Banshee cannot read that seem to be
>> perfectly valid JPG files.  The GNOME Viewer gives me no "corrupt
>> image file" warning, and they display fine in any other program,
>> including Rhythmbox.  I know for certain that Banshee is not
>> downloading cover art, so many of my albums simply have no art.  Does
>> anyone have any idea why?
>>
>> It is worth noting that they are not of uniform size:  some are
>> 200x200, others 500x500, 460x400, all manner of strange sizes.  But
>> Banshee can display the non-square images (such as the 460x400 one)
>> fine, so I didn't think size/ratio was a problem.
>
> I guess your cover art is stored as files in the album folders ?
> Banshee is looking for file with specific names and extension, like
> "cover.jpg", "folder.jpg" or "front.jpg".
>
> It's also trying to be smart and is not looking for cover art if it
> looks like the folder does not only contain tracks from the same album.
> This algorithm and potential issues with it are discussed in details in
> this bug :
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570155
>
> --
> Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com>
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