Answer by coolman for Album art in Media Player randomly does not show
This (more workaround than) solution should work on Mac / iTunes combination with Jolla m4a files based on this source. It requires the mp4v2 (tools) to be installed – install with MacPorts or any...
View ArticleComment by Alex
@keithzg: Thanks for your answer. :) But I don't get it what's wrong with tracker so that it is unable to show the coverart in the album view of an album containing various artists.. Could you pls...
View ArticleComment by keithzg
@Alex: For albums with various artists, it appears that tracker realizes that the same coverart and album name is being used, and simply symlinks every subsequent instance to that. So each artist needs...
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What about albums with various artists? Which name should I choose for the first md5sum? And where can I check wich name I should choose for the first md5sum?
View ArticleComment by keithzg
@Yaniel: You're right, this is exactly what Tracker is supposed to do, it just does a rather poor and inconsistent job of it, unfortunately. And writing a quick script or basic app might be within my...
View ArticleComment by Yaniel
"this does seem like a good case for a simple app (or at least script) that can be pointed at a track and generate from its metadata the right filename and plunk a respective .jpeg in the cache folder"...
View ArticleComment by Whippler
damn it's a huge mess, why cant it just read folder.jpg from the album folder anymore o.O just added some music, and the latest update doesnt seem to find the cover art at all.
View ArticleAnswer by keithzg for Album art in Media Player randomly does not show
It's also possible to manually add album art, and this doesn't require wiping tracker's index. Tracker follows the [Media Art Storage...
View ArticleComment by Feffe
Regarding `.flac` files with embedded cover art, I wrote [this answer](https://together.jolla.com/question/37027/1071618-bug-cover-art-doesnt-work/?answer=57684#post-id-57684) regarding that a while...
View ArticleComment by Jef
Ok, I've found out (since Tahkalampi update?) that a `folder.jpg` file in the directory of `.ogg` files works. If the tracker doesn't detect the jpg file you need to force it with `tracker-control...
View ArticleComment by Jef
You can also add : Album art embedded into `.ogg` files (DOES NOT WORK) Extracting a folder.jpg doesn't change anything. Using md5sum trick to manually add covers works.
View ArticleComment by Whippler
after the latest update i cant get the album art to show up from folder.jpg on the new stuff i added. also resetting tracker with the commands above didn't do anything, everything i had still shows in...
View ArticleComment by keithzg
I have failures of cover.jpg with much smaller files, one being ~360kB. The ones I have that are ~100kB show fine. I've tried poking around in the tracker database but I can't seem to find where it...
View ArticleComment by 2Ti
@MartinK that's a fair point, there is definitely a lag in the music index coming back up after running the hard reset. This is currently the only way though I know to get media player to refresh its...
View ArticleComment by MartinK
Just be aware that as *--hard-reset* wipes the complete tracker index, tracker will probably have to crawl the whole content of your filesystem (both internal & any uSD card) again. If you have...
View ArticleAnswer by 2Ti for Album art in Media Player randomly does not show
I think I've figured it out. There are many interacting components here one of which is the Media Player cache. This is generated by a process called `tracker` and stored in `~/.cache/tracker`. The...
View ArticleComment by pycage
Not so random, but it does not show in the album list if at least one track in it has a different artist.
View ArticleComment by bockersjv
I have found the Media Player to have many faults. However in my case the Album are is showing correctly, something my N9 never did. I have my album art embedded into the MP3 files as an option on...
View ArticleAlbum art in Media Player randomly does not show
The media player app very randomly displays some album art but not others. I've been trying to figure out what could be causing this and it would seem to have something to do with the filesize of the...
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