GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 627954
Add a command to clear up Banshee's album art
Last modified: 2020-03-17 08:55:25 UTC
As I asked about on the mailing list [1], it would be useful if Banshee could clear up album art that it wasn't actually using. While it doesn't take up a lot of space, it can end up with duplicates of album art and you don't know which one it is actually using. I did come up with a method to do it via basic Bash scripting and taking advantage of image caches [2], but being able to click "Tidy album art" would be easier :) Just for reference, the cases I know of that seem to trigger duplicates and unused album art are: * Renaming an album or an artist (it duplicates it but doesn't remove the old one, even if you are syncing all attributes for that album) * Listening to samples on Amazon * Something weird that gave me album art with names "album-xxxx-xxxx.jpg" instead of the normal "album-xxxx.jpg" [1] http://old.nabble.com/Deleting-unused-album-art--to29504854.html#a29504854 [2] http://old.nabble.com/Deleting-unused-album-art--to29504854.html#a29515430
I don't think we need to expose this as a commend/option - we should just do it periodically.
Fair enough. I just wasn't sure whether you wanted to arbitrarily tidy up a folder that could potentially be used by other apps, or whether that behaviour would upset some users. I could see that ~/.cache/banshee-media-art should only have Banshee stuff in and be safe to clean, but ~/.cache/media-art would seem like something that could contain non-Banshee files that the user might want.
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.