Re: [Banshee-List] Deleting unused album art?

[IBBoard <ibboard gmail com>]

Okay, it is now in the bug tracker as an "enhancement", if anyone else
wants to track it. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627954


On 25/08/10 11:46, IBBoard wrote:
> Would it not be possible to just go through the database, find all of
> the IDs and delete the ones that match the pattern of being Banshee
> album art but which don't have an ID? It'd have to be a user-requested
> feature, in case they had more than one player sharing the folder for
> some reason, but it'd solve the duplicates that seemed to appear for my
> albums as well as the remnant Amazon preview images.
> 
> I'll throw a feature request together later.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> On 24/08/10 17:05, Gabriel Burt wrote:
>> There are a couple approaches we could take:
>>
>> 1) Use the access time (atime) and delete the cached art if it hasn't
>> been accessed in a very long time (maybe a year)
>>
>> 2) Use different identifiers for temporary album art, eg
>> "amazon-preview-$MD5-HASH" for AmazonMP3 preview tracks, and similar
>> for Last.fm streaming, etc.
>>
>> Feel free to file a bug and work on this.  :)
>>
>> Gabriel
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, IBBoard <ibboard gmail com> wrote:
>>> Is there an easy way to work out what album art is unused and to delete
>>> it? I've got some albums (mainly compilations, but also single artist
>>> albums) that show up once in Banshee but have up to two dozen identical
>>> covers stored in ~/.cache/media-art. There are also various covers from
>>> tracks that I've listened to samples of on Amazon but never bought.
>>>
>>> I know they don't take up much room, but it'd just be easier to review
>>> the album art I had if Banshee only kept one copy of the album art and
>>> only for songs I still had. I know the duplicates probably occur because
>>> of changes in album or artist name, which gives it a new hash and needs
>>> a new ID, but I've not changed most of my song metadata in ages and it
>>> still has duplicates.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> IBBoard
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