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RE: Different versions of the same album - dastinger - 09-23-2024

Hi Tim!

No, it does not show up anywhere. I didn't do anything differently with the albums where the cover doesn't show, so I'm really lost here.

RE: Different versions of the same album - Tim Curtis - 09-23-2024

Zip up one of the albums and PM a download link to myself, @TheOldPresbyope and @Nutul. One of us will investigate.

RE: Different versions of the same album - dastinger - 09-24-2024

Thank you, I just PMd everyone Smile

RE: Different versions of the same album - TheOldPresbyope - 09-24-2024

@dastinger

I got your zip file. It unzipped without error. The six tracks begin with the proper magic number fLaC (so no errant ID3v2 tag). They each passed the flac utility (e.g., for the last track "06 Bill Evans Trio - Milestones.flac: ok")

The FLAC metadata look ok. Example

Code:
rho@mpi4b:/mnt/SDCARD/Waltz For Debby [LP SMJ-6118] $ metaflac --list --block-type=VORBIS_COMMENT,PICTURE 06*

METADATA block #2

  type: 4 (VORBIS_COMMENT)

  is last: false

  length: 1144

  vendor string: reference libFLAC 1.4.3 20230623

  comments: 35

    comment[0]: ISRC=DEA319801347

    comment[1]: ISRC=USF186100094

    comment[2]: MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMID=b866e6df-abc3-48cd-9ecd-62acf6da47de

    comment[3]: TOTALTRACKS=6

    comment[4]: ORIGINALDATE=1962

    comment[5]: DATE=1962

    comment[6]: TRACKNUMBER=6

    comment[7]: TITLE=Milestones

    comment[8]: RELEASECOUNTRY=US

    comment[9]: DISCNUMBER=1

    comment[10]: ARTISTSORT=Evans, Bill, Trio

    comment[11]: LABEL=Riverside

    comment[12]: MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMARTISTID=d0630a08-3b40-4cb4-9f48-7d525262c1f6

    comment[13]: ALBUMARTISTSORT=Evans, Bill, Trio

    comment[14]: MEDIA=12" Vinyl

    comment[15]: ARTISTS=Bill Evans Trio

    comment[16]: ALBUM=Waltz for Debby

    comment[17]: MUSICBRAINZ_TRACKID=51316743-dc98-43c1-af77-e722fa1aa7db

    comment[18]: MUSICBRAINZ_RELEASEGROUPID=392e7fcf-5ae9-37f6-b8c9-57901cfbee1f

    comment[19]: MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID=d0630a08-3b40-4cb4-9f48-7d525262c1f6

    comment[20]: ITUNES_CDDB_1=51137706+373908+6+150+48585+115905+190027+260231+308721

    comment[21]: TOTALDISCS=1

    comment[22]: ARTIST=Bill Evans Trio

    comment[23]: MUSICBRAINZ_RELEASETRACKID=ad96a805-0101-3587-88ee-3a00bd0546ac

    comment[24]: ORIGINALYEAR=1962

    comment[25]: ACOUSTID_ID=77a041b8-4ed2-4ea9-bdfc-f253ea7c74fd

    comment[26]: ALBUMARTIST=Bill Evans Trio

    comment[27]: RELEASESTATUS=official

    comment[28]: CATALOGNUMBER=RLP-9399

    comment[29]: ENCODER=X Lossless Decoder 20240511

    comment[30]: SCRIPT=Latn

    comment[31]: RELEASETYPE=album

    comment[32]: RELEASETYPE=live

    comment[33]: TRACKTOTAL=6

    comment[34]: DISCTOTAL=1

METADATA block #3

  type: 6 (PICTURE)

  is last: false

  length: 32753

  type: 3 (Cover (front))

  MIME type: image/jpeg

  description: 

  width: 500

  height: 495

  depth: 0

  colors: 0 (unindexed)

  data length: 32711

  data:

    00000000: FF D8 FF E0 00 10 4A 46 49 46 00 01 01 00 00 01 ......JFIF......

<<...output truncated for brevity...>>

As you can see, I unzipped to the SDCARD on one of my players. The "update this folder" ran without issue on folder SDCARD and the coverart shows up in all views (along with my other Bill Evans albums, notably "Sunday at the Village Vanguard", possibly my favorite live recording) and the tracks play fine.

I'm stumped.

Regards,
Kent

RE: Different versions of the same album - dastinger - 09-24-2024

Thank you so much, fellow Bill Evans fan Smile

Wow, I don't know what to say. The albums I have issues with are on the same USB HDD and folder as all the others. And it just doesn't show up, no matter what I do. As a last resort, I even tried to delete the albums from the HDD, update the library, re-add them, and still no cover art.

Everything works fine. It shows up, it plays etc. But the cover art simply does not show.

RE: Different versions of the same album - Tim Curtis - 09-24-2024

I had no issues on my end with the album you provided.

Typically this type of issue is caused by insufficient permissions. MPD needs to have read ® permission to the music files and execute (x) permission on all parent directories of the music files. The MPD log can be viewed via moodeutl --mpdlog and will contain permission errors for directories or files it cannot access during database update.

Couple of questions:

1. What format is the drive (NTFS, Fat32, Exfat etc)?
2 How did you copy the files to the drive?
3. What are the permission listed for the "Waltz For Debby [LP SMJ-6118]" album directory and music files?

Code:
# Directory

stat "/media/PATH_TO_Waltz For Debby [LP SMJ-6118]"

# Files

ls -l "/media/PATH_TO_Waltz For Debby [LP SMJ-6118]"

Here's an example using the test album you provided. I copied it to a USB drive.

# Directory
pi@moode9:~ $ stat "/media/VFAT64/Test/Dastinger/Waltz For Debby [LP SMJ-6118]"
File: /media/VFAT64/Test/Dastinger/Waltz For Debby [LP SMJ-6118]
Size: 32768 Blocks: 64 IO Block: 32768 directory
Device: 8,1 Inode: 163 Links: 2
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2024-09-23 20:00:00.000000000 -0400
Modify: 2024-09-24 06:28:56.000000000 -0400
Change: 2024-09-24 06:28:56.000000000 -0400
Birth: 2024-09-24 02:25:21.090000000 -0400

# Files
pi@moode9:~ $ ls -l "/media/VFAT64/Test/Dastinger/Waltz For Debby [LP SMJ-6118]"
total 611744
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80050275 Sep 14 16:38 '01 Bill Evans Trio - My Foolish Heart.flac'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 110992954 Sep 14 16:38 '02 Bill Evans Trio - Waltz For Debby.flac'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122149206 Sep 14 16:38 '03 Bill Evans Trio - Detour Ahead.flac'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117928299 Sep 14 16:38 '04 Bill Evans Trio - My Romance.flac'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 78073910 Sep 14 16:38 '05 Bill Evans Trio - Some Other Time.flac'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 116649103 Sep 14 16:38 '06 Bill Evans Trio - Milestones.flac'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 493832 Sep 14 16:43 folder.png

RE: Different versions of the same album - Nutul - 09-24-2024

Same here, no problem at all.
Although I am a little perplexed: in your album view, that's not a "broken image": it's a default one.
I don't remember if moOde adds that (as a thumbnail) when it cannot find any; but if it is so, maybe you added the album with no album art, then fixed it, and rebuilt the library / regenerated the thumbnails, but... forgot to clear the browser's cache?

RE: Different versions of the same album - dastinger - 09-25-2024

(09-24-2024, 02:37 PM)Tim Curtis Wrote: I had no issues on my end with the album you provided.

Typically this type of issue is caused by insufficient permissions. MPD needs to have read ® permission to the music files and execute (x) permission on all parent directories of the music files. The MPD log can be viewed via moodeutl --mpdlog and will contain permission errors for directories or files it cannot access during database update.

Couple of questions:

1. What format is the drive (NTFS, Fat32, Exfat etc)?
2 How did you copy the files to the drive?
3. What are the permission listed for the "Waltz For Debby [LP SMJ-6118]" album directory and music files?

Code:
# Directory stat "/media/PATH_TO_Waltz For Debby [LP SMJ-6118]" # Files ls -l "/media/PATH_TO_Waltz For Debby [LP SMJ-6118]"

Here's an example using the test album you provided. I copied it to a USB drive.

# Directory
pi@moode9:~ $ stat "/media/VFAT64/Test/Dastinger/Waltz For Debby [LP SMJ-6118]"
File: /media/VFAT64/Test/Dastinger/Waltz For Debby [LP SMJ-6118]
Size: 32768 Blocks: 64 IO Block: 32768 directory
Device: 8,1 Inode: 163 Links: 2
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2024-09-23 20:00:00.000000000 -0400
Modify: 2024-09-24 06:28:56.000000000 -0400
Change: 2024-09-24 06:28:56.000000000 -0400
Birth: 2024-09-24 02:25:21.090000000 -0400

# Files
pi@moode9:~ $ ls -l "/media/VFAT64/Test/Dastinger/Waltz For Debby [LP SMJ-6118]"
total 611744
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80050275 Sep 14 16:38 '01 Bill Evans Trio - My Foolish Heart.flac'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 110992954 Sep 14 16:38 '02 Bill Evans Trio - Waltz For Debby.flac'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122149206 Sep 14 16:38 '03 Bill Evans Trio - Detour Ahead.flac'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117928299 Sep 14 16:38 '04 Bill Evans Trio - My Romance.flac'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 78073910 Sep 14 16:38 '05 Bill Evans Trio - Some Other Time.flac'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 116649103 Sep 14 16:38 '06 Bill Evans Trio - Milestones.flac'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 493832 Sep 14 16:43 folder.png

Tim, thank you for your continued help.

The USB drive is NTFS. Please note that all albums are in there, in the same tree. /Music/Albums/Artist/Album Name.
I can't remember how I copied the files to the drive. They are there for quite some time now, since I recorded them myself from my vinyl copy of the album. I moved them around to organise, but they were already in the same HDD
The permissions are as follows:

Code:
# Directory

Size: 4096      Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory

Device: 8,2 Inode: 4063        Links: 1

Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)

Access: 2024-09-25 14:54:45.735583200 +0100

Modify: 2024-09-24 10:02:12.176884600 +0100

Change: 2024-09-25 14:56:15.780493300 +0100

 Birth: -

# Files

total 611672

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  80050275 Sep 15 01:38 '01 Bill Evans Trio - My Foolish Heart.flac'

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 110992954 Sep 15 01:38 '02 Bill Evans Trio - Waltz For Debby.flac'

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 122149206 Sep 15 01:38 '03 Bill Evans Trio - Detour Ahead.flac'

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 117928299 Sep 15 01:38 '04 Bill Evans Trio - My Romance.flac'

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  78073910 Sep 15 01:38 '05 Bill Evans Trio - Some Other Time.flac'

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 116649103 Sep 15 01:38 '06 Bill Evans Trio - Milestones.flac'

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    493832 Sep 15 01:43  folder.png

As a last effort, I tried to move the folders to the SD Card and Moode immediately showed the album art. I tried moving them back to the USB drive and the album art is gone again. I can keep them on the SD Card but I'd like to know what is going on. I'd prefer to see it fixed rather than having two paths for albums (not that it hurts, it's just a way to keep everything tidied up and not having to worry about it in case I need to reinstall the OS or something).

(09-24-2024, 07:10 PM)Nutul Wrote: Same here, no problem at all.
Although I am a little perplexed: in your album view, that's not a "broken image": it's a default one.
I don't remember if moOde adds that (as a thumbnail) when it cannot find any; but if it is so, maybe you added the album with no album art, then fixed it, and rebuilt the library / regenerated the thumbnails, but... forgot to clear the browser's cache?

That is my fault. When I first opened up the thread, it was indeed a broken image, but it changed to what you can see now on my screenshot.

I'm not sure if you mean the actual web browser's cache. But if you do, this happens on every browser I try, so it's not an issue with the cache.

RE: Different versions of the same album - Tim Curtis - 09-25-2024

Very odd.

You could try regenerating the thumbnails and then check the moode log (moodeutl -l) for any errors from "thmgen" related to those Albums.

If you have an spare USB drive, format it as Fat32 (VFAT) and then copy some albums to it including the ones that don't show cover art.

RE: Different versions of the same album - dastinger - 09-25-2024

The only thing that shows up are "thumb-gen" entries and not thmgen. I guess that's what you mean. And nothing out of the ordinary catches my eye. And the only mention to Waltz for Debby I found was the following:

Code:
20240924 100416 mpdindex: Start

20240924 100416 mpdindex: Cmd (update)

20240924 100416 thumb-gen: Start

20240924 100416 thumb-gen: Scan opt: Default

20240924 100416 thumb-gen: Priority: Embedded cover

20240924 100416 thumb-gen: Res,Qual: 600px,60

20240924 100416 thumb-gen: Px ratio: 1

20240924 100416 thumb-gen: Th width: 600

20240924 100416 thumb-gen: Thm qual: 60

20240924 100416 thumb-gen: Scanning: NAS, NVME, SDCARD, CENAS 2, EFI

20240924 100416 thumb-gen: Done: 128 folders scanned, 0 thumbs created, 128 already in cache.

20240924 100419 mpdindex: Done: indexed 120 artists, 80 albums, 690 songs

20240924 100419 worker: Job update_library done

20240924 131728 worker: Job update_library

20240924 131728 mpdindex: Start

20240924 131729 mpdindex: Cmd (update "USB/CENAS 2/Music/Albums/Bill Evans/Waltz For Debby [LP SMJ-6118]")

20240924 131729 thumb-gen: Start

20240924 131729 thumb-gen: Scan opt: Default

20240924 131729 thumb-gen: Priority: Embedded cover

20240924 131729 thumb-gen: Res,Qual: 600px,60

20240924 131729 thumb-gen: Px ratio: 1

20240924 131729 thumb-gen: Th width: 600

20240924 131729 thumb-gen: Thm qual: 60

20240924 131729 thumb-gen: Scanning: NAS, NVME, SDCARD, CENAS 2, EFI

20240924 131729 thumb-gen: Done: 128 folders scanned, 0 thumbs created, 128 already in cache.

20240924 131732 mpdindex: Done: indexed 120 artists, 80 albums, 690 songs

20240924 131732 worker: Job update_library done

I also have the same issue with one of my Kind of Blue versions (Mono LP) and searching for that on Terminal doesn't even get me any results.

I tried clearing the library tag cache and regenerate the database and it's still the same.

Mind boggling.

Regarding the spare USB drive, I'll have to check if I have some laying around that I can use.