GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 336249
Cover art should be gathered from folder.jpg and variants in music folder
Last modified: 2008-07-22 14:38:10 UTC
My library currently has some albums containing a file called 'folder.jpg' for the cover art and others containing '.folder.jpg' as some of the applications I've used in the past use one or the other. It would be nice if Banshee could look for either or when displaying the cover art.
I think this is the best solution. * I can have many pictures in a directory, which one banshee should use? * How to choose the right filename? I can call a cover 'front.jpg' or 'copertina.jpg' (in italian) an so on. * A cover can be a JPEG file o a PNG file, or an SVG file, and so on, which one to use? IMHO, this solution is not the best. Probably the best solution is to use directy the cover image stored into the file. See Bug #328376 To put the covers into the files you can use EasyTAG, it rocks ;)
Personally, I would just scan the directory that the audio file is in looking for .jpg, or whatever other image formats are supported, and just take the fist valid image file found and use that. No games, no guessing, no language problems, just the first file it finds, in alphabetical order works fine. For me, I don't (shouldn't) have more than one image in any directory within my mp3 library.
Moving to the User Interface component.
(Moving to http://www.banshee-project.org/FeatureRequest page)
Fixed in trunk. I have it scan the folder for all jpg/jpeg files and pick the largest (in file size) one to use.