[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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