When I browse my local library for *album artists* I'd like to see
covers of their albums instead of artist photos.
This is because the covers of the albums I own are - for me - more
connected to the artists than arbitrary artist photos.
To achieve this I used a batch file to copy the first cover.jpg of each
artist as artist.jpg into the artist folder (the library structure is
artist/album/tracks).
In a later step I want to combine 2 or 4 album covers into a single
artist.jpg similar to what OrangeSqueeze is doing.
I've configured the MAI plugin to show artist photos but to not
pre-cache them.
This works mostly fine, but for a few artists wrong pictures are shown.
For example, the artist pictures for Jeff Beck or Gary Clark Jr. don't
show one of their own album covers but the one of Eric Clapton's album
"Clapton".
Both artists are also track artists on Clapton's album "Crossroads
Guitar Festival 2013" and it seems that MAI ignores the contributor role
when it tries to find the artist folder.
Or do I configure or interpret it wrongly?
My LMS is 7.9.3 on Windows 10 and MAI is 1.6.13.
The data in library.db looks like this:
Code:
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select id,name from contributors WHERE id in (252,274,287)
id|name
252 Eric Clapton
274 Gary Clark Jr.
287 Jeff Beck
select * from contributor_album WHERE contributor = 274 --Gary Clark Jr.
role|contributor|album|(my notes)
6 274 513 --album=Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013, disc 1
(contributor=252)
6 274 514 --album=Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013, disc 2
(contributor=252)
1 274 633 --album=Live / North America 2016 (contributor=274)
1 274 634 --album=This Land (contributor=274)
select * from contributor_album WHERE contributor = 287 --Jeff Beck
role|contributor|album|(my notes)
6 287 514 --album=Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013, disc 2
(contributor=252)
1 287 806 --album=Live at the Hollywood Bowl, disc 1
(contributor=287)
1 287 807 --album=Live at the Hollywood Bowl, disc 2
(contributor=287)
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