GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 384187
[Metadata Searcher] Strange Cover-Download behavior
Last modified: 2007-04-14 12:04:08 UTC
For some reasons the “metadata searcher“ downloads more then one cover for a single album. For example „Moby Hotel“, it downloads the covers “B0007CZPIS.jpg“ and “B0007IO0KQ.jpg“. For me “B0007CZPIS.jpg“ would be the correct one, but Banshee shows the other one (some kind of Asian language cover). One possible problem could be that i don't import that album with Banshee. It was converted from CD to Vorbis-File by a win32 application called „cdex“. Maybe Banshee could not recognize the correct ASIN and downloads all hits for “album title as string”. If this is the problem, a possible solution could be to set the preferred language or “region“ of the album/cover. For example: Download the covers from amazon.com, amazon.de or amazon.fr. Sry for my broken English.
To lines of my banshee database: [...]14-Homeward%20Angel.ogg|[...]|Moby||Hotel||B0007IO0KQ||Homeward Angel|[...] [...]15-35%20Minutes.ogg|[...]|Moby||Hotel||B0007CZPIS||35 Minutes|[...] The problem seems not to be the cover downloader. It seems the ASINs in the database are not 100% correct. Why got tracks of the same album different ASINs? Albums i imported from cd with banshee got the correct/same ASIN for all tracks.
There is a related thread that just started on the mailing list: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/banshee-list/2007-January/msg00097.html
I'm going to close this bug, as this has been totally revamped and it should be fixed. I don't think we even use ASINs nowadays.