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

[Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com>]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Dustin C. Hatch <admiralnemo gmail com> wrote:
> 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.

This should be better in Banshee 2.0.0/master, where if it sees that
the cover art cache folder is missing it clears that table as well as
the last_scan time stored in CoreConfiguration.  Net result: it should
start downloading cover art again immediately.

Gabriel