GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 528137
banshee no longer looks for cover.jpg in folder
Last modified: 2008-08-04 17:54:04 UTC
Please describe the problem: Most of my music is arranged in folders of albums, with a high quality cover image saved as cover.jpg in the same folder. In 0.13.2, when banshee was importing music, it would look to see if this cover.jpg existed and use that for the album artwork (and if no cover.jpg was present, it'd do the web lookup for artwork). This setup worked really well. In 0.98.3, it seems banshee no longer searches for a local cover file, and instead always grabs the artwork online. This isn't optimal, since the online grab sometimes gets the wrong cover, or a poor quality version. Can a search for a local artwork file be readded into the import routine? Steps to reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
*** Bug 527645 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
523567 looks like the bug report with the most history and info on this issue. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 523567 ***
Not the same issue, that's an enhancement for Banshee grabbing the wrong cover.jpg from the folder.
*** Bug 535024 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Is this working in 1.0?
Nope, this is still broken. I've been copying cover.jpg's to ~/.cache/album-art/ as a kludge.
(In reply to comment #6) > Nope, this is still broken. I've been copying cover.jpg's to > ~/.cache/album-art/ as a kludge. Thanks for testing; I'd noticed the same. I had the correct art saved as cover.jpg but Banshee downloaded the incorrect art.
*** Bug 540716 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Bumping target; 1.0 is out.
Additionally Folder.jpg isn't discovered. I have no idea where this convention is from, but emusic uses it.
(In reply to comment #10) > Additionally Folder.jpg isn't discovered. I have no idea where this convention > is from, but emusic uses it. I believe Windows XP uses it for folder thumbnails in Explorer, and from a quick search on Google, it looks like Winamp might respect those files too. Bug 336249 covers its inclusion in Banshee. This bug is about a regression between 0.13.x and 1.x.
Fixed in trunk. I have it scan the folder for all jpg/jpeg files and pick the largest (in file size) one to use.
I tried it and it works like a charm, nice!
This still doesn't work for the Sigur Rós album effectively known as "( )", even though I have one cover.jpg in the folder ~/Music/Sigur Rós/( )/. Not sure if the album name is messing it up, but when I play a track from it in SVN, I do get the "Downloading Cover Art" progress bar for about 10 seconds (the same for other albums that have local art that wasn't detected), but it doesn't work. Different bug or part of the same behavior?
Different bug, already filed ("not parenthesis friendly")
(In reply to comment #15) > Different bug, already filed ("not parenthesis friendly") I discussed this album on that bug (bug 520516), but that was more about Banshee searching the internet for the cover art. In this case, it's a cover.jpg I already have in the folder. Is the problem that it's not finding the folder or something? I'd think it would just look in the same folder where the track is located, regardless of special characters in the path or album field.
(In reply to comment #16) > In this case, it's a > cover.jpg I already have in the folder. Is the problem that it's not finding > the folder or something? I'd think it would just look in the same folder where > the track is located, regardless of special characters in the path or album > field. ...and yet, that seems to be the case: bug 530690.
*** Bug 545744 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
With version 1.2 covers are not picked up by banshee when importing the album. The cover is located in the same folder with the tracks. I have tried naming the cover cover.jpg and folder.jpg but it seems not to make any difference. According to the release notes this feature is available with Banshee 1.2
I have the some problem with banshee1.2. I must mention that my albums are chinese albums and certainly the name of albums are chinese names. But I've tested English albums and find the some problem: banshee cannot import cover art in an album folder.
(In reply to comment #19) (In reply to comment #20) See comment #17; it's a separate bug.