Re: [slim] Re: Album Art Crashes SServer
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 from a few characters of text. If an image is of some slightly different type that the server exects, for example, filename won't affect that data. Point to a subdir as your music folder, rescan and try that. Then try another and another. try splitting it in half. my library of 1200 albums is primarily cover.jpg, and as I have said before, no crash on win2k or winxp with the latest 6.5.1 nightly build. But, my data isn't your data. -kdf ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Album Art Crashes SServer
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 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Album Art Crashes SServer
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 message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: Perl interpreter failed. Any wiser? sadly, that's pretty much a helpless cry of despair from the perl interpreter used to build SlimServer for windows. There is one other report of this being a problem when the album sorting is set to something other than the default album. You might consider trying a smaller test library, adding albums bit by bit to see if it is related to the library contents. So far, it's not something that is easily reproduced or diagnosed...only a source of frustration and fuel for ire for the users who run into it. On my setup, it seem to work fine aside form the known issue of the pages not matching up with the letters indices. I'd suggest contacting [EMAIL PROTECTED] so they can collect any details that might help. cheers, kdf ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Album art via CDDB on the fly?
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/) ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Album art on the squeezebox?
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 scaled...now I guess I need to learn how to write some perl modules huh--kbeastkbeast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4761View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=11021 ___Discuss mailing listDiscuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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
Re: [slim] Re: Album Art 6.5b1
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 those things. Thanks for the quick response - PS while I'm at it sometimes I get a multiple song listing on the browser - when I check the folder it's a single song any ideas? On Jan 18, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Skunk wrote: thepainter Wrote: Just got my Nokia 770 and immediately upgraded to test out the Nokia skin. Mac OS X.4, itunes, 6.5b1 - prior to this I was using 6.2.1. I have my album art under Artist,Album, cover.jpg. The only Album Art I can see now is the ones I have in iTunes. I did a rescan on a 6000+ song count and it seemed to take way longer than before. Any Help - I didn't put this in the Nokia post because it's universal with all skins. Thanks Yeah rescans seem FAST on reinstall... and NEVERENDING from the server CP. I gave up and named my cover art, 'cover.jpeg', but I have all songs from one album in one directory. Did you try '%ARTIST, ALBUM, cover' in the server CP? A more conventional scheme I think is '%ARTIST - ALBUM' -- Skunk -- -- Skunk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2685 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20186 ___ 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 6.5b1
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 of files that slimserver checks with, or without, a filename specified in the server settings-interface. The Nokia skin is using the same url to get artwork as any of the others. viewing the source for the artwork page is not a valid way to track the artwork filename, since the thumb.jpg in the url is simply an alias to the real artwork, either on the drive or in the track metadata. debugging via d_artwork while running a wipe library and rescan will show you what the server is lookign for and finding for artwork. -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Album Art 6.5b1
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 'cover.jpg'. Not exactly sure how to do an attachment for the log.txt that I got for the debug, but any help would be much appreciated. start by finding a section of the log that covers one of the albums that you are not seeing artwork for, but are certain that you should have something. check for the looking for artwork and any found... messages. paste that section to a post if you like. The log will show the album title that it is using, which could be wrong somewhow, and where it is lookign for files/tags. The answer might be obvious, or it might not. Also, click on one of the albums that is missing artwork and see if you get the art when you list the tracks on that album. If you do, then the log will show you the process of finding that artwork whenever you load the track list. Only the browse by artwork page is done during scan (since there are so many covers to handled at once). Make sure, too, that you are setting BOTH artwork prefs correct. There is an Artwork setting and an Artwork Thumbnail setting. the Thumbnail is for the browse by artwork, and the other setting covers the album pages, songinfo and the now playing section of some skins. -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Album Art 6.5b1
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 should really be pointing to the cover.jpg, or whatever file is found. -k ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Album Art 6.5b1
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 you report OS, and have tried the latest nightly with teh Default skin (not that there should be any differences) Attach your prefs file ( in case the artwork settings need to be replicated) Attach a larger section of the log (same section, but add a few more albums and point out if any of them work better than others) Attach a sample cover.jpg that is not being picked up right Also note if you are able to see artwork for that album if you go to the songinfo for any of the tracks on the album probably good for a start. -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Album Art
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 album directory. I suppose it's not too much work appart from the 600 already existing. Thanks for your help. look on the plugins page, there are at least two scripts for automatically doing this for you via Amazon. -- Jack at Monkeynoodle dot Org: It's a Scientific Venture... Riding the Emergency Third Rail Power Trip since 1996! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
