craigf;285510 Wrote:
Actually, I may have found a workaround for times when you add artwork
for just a few albums (using the add 'cover.jpg' artwork file in the
album directory method).
Here's how I do this:
I came to the conlusion that SC, when scanning for new and changed
music, adds new artwork only if the file date of cover.jpg is equal
or newer than the newest audio file AND/OR the folder it's in. This
might explain the problems some people have when adding new albums with
covers sometimes not showing up. On the other hand, a rescan
everything adds all artwork, independent from file dates.
The other interesting fact is that once SC has an album with a
recognised cover.jpg, you can replace that file with another image,
and SC will show that new image automatically, with merely a browser
refresh. (Note: only works with bullet 3. below.)
So, based on these two characteristics, you can update artwork without
a rescan everything by preparing your folders like this:
1. Put all artwork you have as cover.jpg in their respective folders
(surely you've done that already).
2. For those folders you don't have artwork, put a template (dummy)
cover.jpg in the folder. It can be any image; I use the original SC
image as found in HTML/Default/html/images/cover.png, but necessarily
converted to JPEG.
3. In Settings Performance, set Do not pre-cache artwork.
4. Do a rescan everything, one last time ;-) .
From now on, if you add new music, include a template cover.jpg if
you don't have the real cover image at the moment. If you have it, make
sure its file date is as explained above. If you scan or download covers
for albums already in SC, just replace the corresponding template
cover.jpg, and you're done.
5. Performance recommendations:
5a. In Settings Performance, set Resize artwork.
5b. Resize all your covers and the template to the same size as defined
in Settings Interface Thumbnail Size; keep the original image with
another file name around, just in case. (Disadvantage: no extra large
cover display in SC anymore.)
5c. Instead of copying the template cover.jpg into every folder it is
needed, create links to a single instance of that file (symbolic link
under Linux). This reduces disk access.
Last note: as a long time Linux user, I am typically lazy and created a
simple bash script to maintain my cover links. I keep all resized covers
in a single folder, each having the same name as the corresponding album
folder. The script links cover.jpg inside the album folders to the
real image if it exists, or to the template if not.
Regards,
Arnd
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