Re: [slim] Re: Album art is MIA
Kyle wrote: Thanks, everyone, for your help. Skunk, your suggestion led to a solution. After doing the reinstall, I realized that the problem must be in the way the art files were being handled by Windows. I went back to control panelfolder optionsfile type and selected jpeg and hit the advanced button. There's a box to check to always show extension. That was the key. I had manually renamed my files cover.jpg, and after hitting that box, they became cover.jpg.jpg. So when I removed the middle .jpg and did a rescan, the artwork showed up. Had to change 130 files, but at least I hadn't already done 'em all. I'll reset the naming option on TagRename, so the files should be good as I download the rest. I hate to think how much time I spent working out this one small problem, but that's computers ... The value in this is that we've all been reminded of one feature (I shut it off as one of the first things I do after an instal) that cause hidden side effects. Next time someone has the problem, this is one more thing they can check and so you'll save other people time. Thanks for posting your end solution. -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Album art is MIA
Kyle wrote: Now, kdf: are you saying that you would go back and uncheck the box to show the .jpg extension? What types of problems could that cause? I cannot stand, nor ever support the idea of hiding the extensions in the windows UI. Keep them shown, you'll be better off for it in more ways than just working with slimserver. -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Album art is MIA
Caught the tail end of this thread - not sure what OS you are using but I had a similar problem using OS X and itunes. I eventually turned off itunes and everything came back. I still like using itunes as I can transfer my playlists but at least now I know the problem is with itunes. I also upgraded itunes recently and that was probably the cause. Hope this helps. On Jan 19, 2006, at 11:01 PM, Kyle wrote: Still no success, but I'm convinced there must be a setting somewhere that is incorrect. SS is looking in the right place for the art. The artwork is there in a jpeg file titled cover.jpg. But it is not picking it up. I have done several clear and rescans, gone through all my art and renamed every piece to cover.jpg, even lowercased the C for ones that were uppercased. The art is downloaded through TagRename to be stored in the album folder and the tags. There must be one thing that I haven't done, but I can't figure it out. Any help would be appreciated. -- Kyle -- -- Kyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2541 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20204 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss Paul Minott Work: (954)385-8919 Mobil: (954)873-3491 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Album art is MIA
Quoting Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can you even tell if it is looking in the right place? My images are stored in each album folder (artist\album) along with the flac files for each track on the album. seems to be: E:\FLAC Files\Janis Joplin\Pearl (Disc 2) the key log lines for that start with looking for.., and will mention lookin in the tags (metadata blocks), followed by images files in... if no artwork tags are found. Another thread on artwork mentioned having better results when turning iTunes off (I guess it is yet another iTunes upgrade). Also take note of the difference when using browse artwork vs navigating down to a single track on the songinfo page. You'll get artwork there too, but it is brought up live instead of through the scanning. If you see artwork there, and not in browse Artwork then that helps narrow it down. If you don't see artwork, then usually something is wrong with the artwork tags, artwork file name or the artwork itself. Perhaps check that you have cover.jpg, and not cover.JPG. -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Album art is MIA
Quoting Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: kdf Wrote: If you don't see artwork, then usually something is wrong with the artwork tags, artwork file name or the artwork itself. Perhaps check that you have cover.jpg, and not cover.JPG. -kdf What's the difference between the artwork tags and artwork file names? I changed the file name to cover.jpg. How do I check the tag? some tagging programs allow you to add artwork to the file in the same way that you set artist/title/album etc. TagRename is a good one for checking and setting. The logs show that the server was looking for files, so I don't think you have any tags interfering. If an artwork tag is found in the audio file, the server will skip the looking for images files in... bit. what was your art filename before? There are several options for filenames, but the are case sensitive. Check the wiki for details, you can searh for artwork -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Album art is MIA
Quoting Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The file name was just cover or thumb, even though they were .jpeg files there was no .jpg or .jpeg at the end, so I went back and added it just in case that was the problem. I have been using Tag Rename to capture the image files from Amazon and adding them to the files and the tags. Should I just do one and not the other? must have the extension. I'm sure that will solve your issue. Tagging isn't required, but some people like to have it all in tags and set during ripping. Also, you might want to have certain songs override the album art. This wont affect browse by artwork, since that is one pic per album, but at the track level (songinfo, and now playing for some skins) you might prefer a different picture for that song. This can be done by adding the art in a tag. Side effect, however, the first track scanned set the pic for the album if you use tags. What you do with all of that, is up to your imagination. -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Album art is MIA
Quoting Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: kdf Wrote: must have the extension. I'm sure that will solve your issue.-kdf I actually did that for a couple of files before a total rescan, but the art still did not show up. I'll try doing some others. Is there an easy way to accomplish this, or do I have to change them one-by-one by renaming the file? Also, let me make certain I have this perfectly clear: I need 300x300 artwork titled cover.jpg and 100x100 artwork titled thumb.jpg in each album file? a cover.jpg of any size is all you'd need. or folder.jpg, thumb.jpg album.jpg, etc The server does some very basic search order changes to get the likely smaller image for thumbnails, but will happily take whatever it does find. Recent 6.5 builds resize the image on the fly so that the page doesn't have to keep oading large images. -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
