Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Q: Why cache embedded album art in ~/.cache/rhythmbox/album-art?

[Peter <rhythmbox-devel maubp freeserve co uk>]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Hanno Zulla <abos hanno de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> with respect to this bug report:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677855
>
> ...allow me to ask: Why does Rhythmbox do this?
>
> What is the advantage of caching the embedded album art image from a
> local MP3/Flac/whatever music file? Isn't this just a waste of harddisk
> space?

It does waste a little space, but the caching is done at the album level
so not so much. The main advantage is for rapid cover display there
is just one place to look - and loading an image file is simpler than
loading an image from a music file (which may be on a different file
system).

> Also, it doesn't seem to work right all the time. I didn't debug this,
> so the following observation could be mistaken, but it seems to me that
> when I play a new album for the first time, the cover art will only
> appear _after_ playing the first track. Why is this so?

That could be a bug - you'd need to explore where the image came
from (online search, embedded in the music files, local hard drive
next to the music file, etc).

Peter