[email protected] wrote: > This is something I've only noticed recently: if folder.jpg has > corrupted EXIF data it interferes with the way LMS displays the album > details and prevents folder.jpg from being displayed on my Logitech > Touch > > Here's the sequence of events: > > 1) I'm ripping my CD collection on a laptop running Fedora 28 Linux > X86_64 with Asunder and photographing the CD cover with a Panasonic > TZ-70 bridge camera. > > 2) The GIMP is then used to increase the folder.jpg contrast, crop it > to just the cover and rescale it to 400x400 pixels > > 3) If needed, I use EasyTag to tweak the album and track names because > Asunder's album/artist/track catalogue does contain mistakes and > mis-spellings > > 4) gftp is then used to move the directory containing the tracks and > folder.jpg to my music server (a dual Athlon PC running Fedora 28 > Linux X86_64. The m3u playlist is not copies across. > > 4) LMS then does rescan. Normally everything then works as expected. > > However, under some conditions the TZ-70 corrupts the EXIF tagset in > the JPG - I think it may be when the pic is taken on low > light/fluorescent lighting. GIMP reports this as: > > ================================== > While parsing XMP metadata: > Error on line 46 char 1: End of element <exif:Flash> not expected in > this context > While parsing XMP metadata: > Error on line 63 char 1: End of element <exif:Flash> not expected in > this context > > Metadata parasite seems to be corrupt > While parsing XMP metadata: > Error on line 46 char 1: End of element <exif:Flash> not expected in > this context > > ** (file-jpeg:9125): WARNING **: 14:15:00.816: JPEG - unable to decode > XMP metadata packet > ================================== > - though, as the message is sent to stderr, it's not seen unless GIMP > is started from a command line. Inspection if the exif data > (under File|Properties|Advanced ) doesn't show anything that looks like > <exif:Flash> > > This affects LMS as shown: > > - if the album is played the 'Play list' part of the web page remains > blank although the whole album plays > > - same happens if the play list is filled by selecting a single track > or 'all tracks' > > - the Touch does not display the album cover image. > > If the exif data is removed the problem can be fixed, i.e. LMS will now > show the playlist for that album and folder.jpg is displayed by the > Touch. I removed the exif data by using GIMP to export the image as > ..png and then to load and re-export that as .jpg to overwrite the > original, which reduces it to less than 50% of its original size. > > However, just replacing folder.jpg with the exifless copy and doing a > rescan does not fix the problem. The only way to do that is to run > 'Clear library and rescsan everything'. > > If LMS can be made to explicitly ignore any EXIF data if a 'folder' > image then I think this problem can be avoided entirely, which would be > nice. > > I'm running LMS 7.9.1 > > Apart from this issue I'm not having any problems and am generally > pleased with the way its working. > > > MartinRather than do a clear and rescan you could remove the affected folder, do a new and changed scan, add the corrected folder and do another new and changed scan.
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