Re: [slim] Re: Album Art Crashes SServer

2006-11-24 Thread kdf
Andyb01 wrote: Interesting - must be some kind of bug. I renamed all my album art files from cover.jpg to album.jpg and have cleared/re-scanned the library. Problem persists however - very odd I'm not surprised at all, frankly. Changing the filename doesn't really change anything aside

Re: [slim] Re: Album Art Crashes SServer

2006-11-23 Thread kdf
Quoting Andyb01 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You'll have to help me out here - no idea what the event viewer is or where to find it. start-settings-control panel-administration tools There should be a message related to slimserver at the time of the crash. -kdf

Re: [slim] Re: Album Art Crashes SServer

2006-11-23 Thread kdf
Quoting Andyb01 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ok - I cleared the log and recreated the error to be sure of getting the correct message which is as follows: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( Application ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or

Re: [slim] Re: Album art via CDDB on the fly?

2006-09-12 Thread Michael Herger
What do applications like MusicMatch use to accomplish this? Money. You can buy such services from eg. allmusic.com -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the SlimString Translation Helper (http://www.herger.net/slim/)

Re: [slim] Re: Album art on the squeezebox?

2006-04-21 Thread Paul Colley
I did a prototype, see http://forums.slimdevices.com/archive/index.php/t-11062.html Note that the samples are on a flaky web-server; if at first you don't succeed, reload...On 4/10/06, kbeast [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:this would be great, even just for the now playing screen to show the cover gray

Re: [slim] Re: Album art is MIA

2006-01-21 Thread Kevin Deane-Freeman
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

Re: [slim] Re: Album art is MIA

2006-01-21 Thread Kevin Deane-Freeman
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

Re: [slim] Re: Album art is MIA

2006-01-20 Thread Paul Minott
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

Re: [slim] Re: Album art is MIA

2006-01-19 Thread kdf
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

Re: [slim] Re: Album art is MIA

2006-01-19 Thread kdf
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

Re: [slim] Re: Album art is MIA

2006-01-19 Thread kdf
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

Re: [slim] Re: Album art is MIA

2006-01-19 Thread kdf
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

Re: [slim] Re: Album Art 6.5b1

2006-01-18 Thread Paul Minott
OK, just did a quick test and did the 'cover.jpeg' and it worked right off the bat. Is there any other way or better yet if I have to go that route is there a way to change all the 'cover.jpg' to 'cover.jpeg'. I'm sure there is but unfortuneately I am a little challenged when it comes to

Re: [slim] Re: Album Art 6.5b1

2006-01-18 Thread kdf
Quoting M3Rocket [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is clearly a bug in the Nokia 770 skin since the others seem to accept both JPG and JPEG extensions. Before renaming all your files, I would wait for what should be a simple bug fix... http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?AlbumArtwork note the list

Re: [slim] Re: Album Art 6.5b1

2006-01-18 Thread kdf
Quoting thepainter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Let me back track - changing to 'cover.jpeg' may have been a one off situation because it didn't work on any others that I did. I did as kdf suggested (debug and wipe) and I got some artwork but not all. Worked prior to 6.5 but only picks up some

Re: [slim] Re: Album Art 6.5b1

2006-01-18 Thread kdf
Quoting thepainter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2006-01-18 15:06:41.4217 Found thumb file: /Users/paulminott/Music/itunes/iTunes Music/LACIE symlink/iTunes/MP3/Joe Sample/Sample This/ not sure why, but this would seem to indicate that the server thinks that directory is actually a image file. it

Re: [slim] Re: Album Art 6.5b1

2006-01-18 Thread kdf
Quoting thepainter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Worthy of a bug report or any idea what I need to do? hard to think of using the word worth with respect to bug reports any more. However, probably best in this case, since that snip of log really makes no sense and I cannot reproduce it. Make sure

Re: [slim] Re: Album Art

2005-04-12 Thread Jack Coates
tobyjug05 wrote: OK I'll take your point. Its just that I've got over 600 albums and am using iTunes, so this adds quite a lot of work and another level of complexity. Instead of just adding the new album to iTunes and attaching the cover art, I'll then have to save a copy of the cover art in the