Google Image Search > Larger than 640x480 is a great source ;) The most
effort I go to is manually stitching together Amazon cover art, which
they splice into four pieces that aren't directly accessible with a
right-click!
600x600px artwork isn't too useful in default Banshee, as the Now
Playing pane uses 300x300px (IIRC), but that's another patch that I've
put into my personal version of Banshee :)
On 09/11/13 14:58, BB wrote:
> 600x600 pix would be nice, but sourcing all those would be work. I can
> see I would want them in the tablet age. The cover art brings richness
> to the listening.
>
> Thanks for verifying my observations about pix size to device type...
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 6:35 AM, IBBoard <ibboard gmail com
> <mailto:ibboard gmail com>> wrote:
>
> Yes, the numbers are resolution caching for different locations (Now
> Playing in the top bar, large on the "Now Playing" screen, album
> browser, etc). IIRC then not all sizes are cached - if your media player
> wants 57px images then it won't be cached, for example. I've patched my
> Banshee to cache the right size for my Creative Zen.
>
> Even when I've had Banshee find album art for me (which is normally not
> great, because its sources often give low-res images, where as I use AT
> LEAST 600x600px) then I've been able to replace it and have never had
> the option disabled.
>
> What happens when you quite Banshee and then run it with "--debug"? The
> errors just look like MusicBrainz is giving bad data or has changed its
> format or something.
>
>
>
> On 08/11/13 21:37, BB wrote:
> > I'm not sure but the varying folders correspond to picture sizes or
> > music player type; something like that.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:24 PM, bill young <gnuoyb gmail com
> <mailto:gnuoyb gmail com>
> > <mailto:gnuoyb gmail com <mailto:gnuoyb gmail com>>> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you BB. Firstly I have been using Banshee for several years
> > and had not noticed that it has to be playing before the manual
> > delete/add cover art function works! So that is solved.
> >
> > As well as a 90 folder I have four other folders: 36, 42, 64 and
> > 300. All a bit confusing and, as you say, the automatic
> download is
> > not entirely satisfactory. I will stick to manual addition in
> > future. Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Regards
> > Bill
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 09/11/13 05:48, BB wrote:
> >> Yours is a batch problem: that is you have many cover art
> jpg's to
> >> replace and your using auto fetch, which I am not using. So this
> >> may not be helpful, but it's good to have someone to bounce
> off of
> >> on these issues.
> >>
> >> I'm using:
> >> Ubuntu 12.04, Banshee 2.4.1 for this discussion
> >> Ubuntu 13.04, Banshee 2.6.1 for reference and experimentation
> >>
> >> Just to review what I had done, for clarity. I had used some
> >> inferior jpg's and I wanted to replace them. Every time I tried
> >> to do that with /delete file/, it kept going back to that cache
> >> and finding that inferior file. I had to search out that
> location
> >> and delete two files
> >>
> >> home>.cache>media-art>/filename/ AND
> >> home>.cache>media-art>90>/filename/
> >>
> >> So, in both locations
> >>
> >>
> >> This was a hack, that may be laborious for you and it does
> nothing
> >> for the auto-file download. I get my cover art manually, mostly
> >> for Wikipedia. Their 220x220 pix format was satisfactory.
> >> MusicBrainz has been good for auto-fill of track titles, but
> cover
> >> art is spotty and non-standardized.
> >>
> >>
> >> That's enough for now...you may have sorted things out already
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:06 PM, bill young <gnuoyb gmail com
> <mailto:gnuoyb gmail com>
> >> <mailto:gnuoyb gmail com <mailto:gnuoyb gmail com>>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks for your help. I renamed the .cache/media-art file,
> >> started Banshee which recreated the file and automatically
> >> downloaded some cover art - roughly half of my collection.
> >> Unfortunately, the choose new cover art/delete this cover art
> >> options are still greyed out so this was not the solution.
> >> This was all working fine until yesterday when I used the
> >> command "banshee --fetch-artwork". Any other ideas?
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Bill
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 07/11/13 06:17, BB wrote:
> >>> the cover art hides in a separate location. I had some
> >>> inferior Cover Art. To get rid of it I had to ferret out
> >>> this separate cache and delete the file there. Then I could
> >>> put the correct one in. If your still struggling, I'll see
> >>> if I can find it for you. I browsed the web for my fix,
> >>> should be out there.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:15 PM, bill young
> <gnuoyb gmail com <mailto:gnuoyb gmail com>
> <mailto:banshee-list gnome org> <mailto:banshee-list gnome org> >>> <mailto:gnuoyb gmail com <mailto:gnuoyb gmail com>>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I used the command "banshee --fetch-artwork" to
> update my
> >>> cover art. The process hangs after generating several
> >>> messages eg:
> >>>
> >>> (Banshee:5002): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: attempting to
> >>> add an interface (AtkTable) to class
> >>>
> (__gtksharp_57_Hyena_Data_Gui_Accessibility_ListViewAccessible+601+5b+5bBanshee_Collection_ArtistInfo+2c+20Banshee_Core+2c+20Version+3d2_6_0_0+2c+20Culture+3dneutral+2c+20PublicKeyToken+3dnull+5d+5d)
> >>> after class_init
> >>>
> >>> and
> >>>
> >>> [Warn 07:00:51.234] Caught an exception -
> >>> System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Argument is out
> of range.
> >>> Parameter name: index (in `mscorlib')
> >>> at
> >>>
> System.Collections.Generic.List`1[MusicBrainz.Release].get_Item
> >>> (Int32 index) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> >>> at MusicBrainz.Query`1[MusicBrainz.Release].get_Item
> >>> (Int32 index) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> >>> at
> >>>
> MusicBrainz.Query`1+<GetEnumerator>c__Iterator1[MusicBrainz.Release].MoveNext
> >>> () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> >>> at
> >>>
> MusicBrainz.Query`1+<Best>c__Iterator0[MusicBrainz.Release].MoveNext
> >>> () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> >>> at
> >>> Banshee.Metadata.MusicBrainz.MusicBrainzQueryJob.Lookup
> >>> () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> >>> at
> Banshee.Metadata.MusicBrainz.MusicBrainzQueryJob.Run
> >>> () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> >>> at Banshee.Metadata.MetadataServiceJob.Run ()
> [0x00000]
> >>> in <filename unknown>:0
> >>> [Warn 07:02:00.361] Caught an exception -
> >>> System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Argument is out
> of range.
> >>> Parameter name: index (in `mscorlib')
> >>> at
> >>>
> System.Collections.Generic.List`1[MusicBrainz.Release].get_Item
> >>> (Int32 index) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> >>> at MusicBrainz.Query`1[MusicBrainz.Release].get_Item
> >>> (Int32 index) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> >>> at
> >>>
> MusicBrainz.Query`1+<GetEnumerator>c__Iterator1[MusicBrainz.Release].MoveNext
> >>> () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> >>> at
> >>>
> MusicBrainz.Query`1+<Best>c__Iterator0[MusicBrainz.Release].MoveNext
> >>> () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> >>> at
> >>> Banshee.Metadata.MusicBrainz.MusicBrainzQueryJob.Lookup
> >>> () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> >>> at
> Banshee.Metadata.MusicBrainz.MusicBrainzQueryJob.Run
> >>> () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> >>> at Banshee.Metadata.MetadataServiceJob.Run ()
> [0x00000]
> >>> in <filename unknown>:0
> >>> [Warn 07:02:44.695] Caught an exception -
> >>> System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Argument is out
> of range.
> >>> Parameter name: index (in `mscorlib')
> >>> at
> >>>
> System.Collections.Generic.List`1[MusicBrainz.Release].get_Item
> >>> (Int32 index) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> >>> at MusicBrainz.Query`1[MusicBrainz.Release].get_Item
> >>> (Int32 index) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> >>> at
> >>>
> MusicBrainz.Query`1+<GetEnumerator>c__Iterator1[MusicBrainz.Release].MoveNext
> >>> () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> >>> at
> >>>
> MusicBrainz.Query`1+<Best>c__Iterator0[MusicBrainz.Release].MoveNext
> >>> () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> >>> at
> >>> Banshee.Metadata.MusicBrainz.MusicBrainzQueryJob.Lookup
> >>> () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> >>> at
> Banshee.Metadata.MusicBrainz.MusicBrainzQueryJob.Run
> >>> () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> >>> at Banshee.Metadata.MetadataServiceJob.Run ()
> [0x00000]
> >>> in <filename unknown>:0
> >>>
> >>> Additionally I am now unable to add cover art manually,
> >>> the choose new cover art/delete this cover art options
> >>> are greyed out. I have tried reinstalling Banshee - no
> >>> difference.
> >>>
> >>> Maybe I have to delete a corrupted file? Any help
> >>> appreciated.
> >>>
> >>> Banshee 2.6.1
> >>> Ubuntu 13.10
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>> Bill
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