[slim] Re: Cover.jpg only shows when playing Album

[JJZolx]

fingers Wrote: 
> This is really annoying.  
> 
> - the wrong artwork cover.jpg showing under Browse Artwork, when the
> album folder that plays indeed has the correct cover art.
> - numerous albums being listed twice under Browse Artwork with half of
> the tracks showing up in each
> - cover.jpg not showing up under Browse Artwork when there is indeed a
> cover.jpg within the folder.
> 
> This happens so much that I find it hard to believe that it is only me
> that has issues with displaying album cover artwork (cover.jpg) with
> SimServer.
> 
> How does one force SlimServer to read and display the cover.jpg
> contained in each folder and to display the correct one when it does?
That casts a little more light on the problem.  If you're seeing
multiple albums listed for one, then you probably have some problems
with your tags.  My guess is that when that happens the cover.jpg file
may only get associated with one of the albums.

SlimServer is very exacting in it's treatment of tag data.  It can be
frustrating at first, but after you've straightened out your tags, it
behaves quite predictably.  If you have a large collection you can
count on spending some time correcting everything so that you don't
have duplicate albums and artists.  Make sure album titles are spelled
exactly the same in all tracks for the album.  Make sure artist names
are identical on all tracks across all albums for the artist.  That's a
start.

As I mentioned previously - when you're in Browse Artwork SlimServer
looks to see what it has for artwork in the database.  When you're
playing the album, or you're at the album track listing level, it looks
for the actual file in the folder of the track or album.  That's the
reason you're seeing the correct cover in one place but not the other.

How are you organizing your folders?  Do you have more than one album
in a folder (or, similarly, are album tracks located in more than one
folder)?  Are all of your tracks tagged or are you relying on the
"guess tags" feature to have SlimServer figure out metadata for some
tracks?  If you have albums split into more than one folder, I'm not
even sure how the albumart would work.  Your safest bet is one album
per folder.


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JJZolx

Jim
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