Re: [Banshee-List] rescan library for album art?

["Dustin C. Hatch" <admiralnemo gmail com>]

On 4/9/2011 3:41 PM, J S wrote:
> I recently migrated to a different Linux installation (from Ubuntu to
> elementary.OS, a new Ubuntu derivative), but I wanted to keep my play
> counts and settings from Banshee, so I backed up the .config/banshee-1
> folder and placed in my new home folder.
>
> The play counts and most of the settings transfered over quite well
> (both old and new installations had the newest Banshee installed). The
> only thing that did not copy over was the cover art. I have attempted to
> restore it using "Rescan Library," but that doesn't appear to do
> anything. I even tried executing "touch `find -name folder.jpg`" in the
> command shell so as to make the cover art files look newly updated, and
> this did not change the results of scanning my library.
>
> Is there any way to force Banshee to look for cover art for a specific
> file, a specific album, or an entire library?

I was looking for a way to do that same thing a few weeks ago, and there 
isn't currently any native support for it in Banshee. The problem is 
Banshee thinks it found and cached all of your album art already because 
the database contains references to the images. You will need to remove 
these references:

$ sqlite3 ~/.config/banshee-1/banshee.db
sqlite> DELETE FROM CoverArtDownloads;

Now if you click "Rescan Library," Banshee will notice that it has no 
record of album art images for your library and go ahead and download 
them again.

There was a bit of discussion on how expose this operation, or something 
similar, in the UI, but I'm not sure if we decided anything.

Hope this helps,

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