which files for cover art in folder view/playlist?

[MartinB]

Hi all,

New and happy moode user. I'm still setting up some things and most is working, now for the details.
Some of my audio files do not have embedded album art. Now I've added folder.jpg files here and there in the directories, and I get the nice images when a song is playing. But, in the playlist on the left in the main screen and in folder view, I still see the moode logo for these songs. 
Is another file used for these thumbnails, or am I missing a setting somewhere?

Thanks,
Martin

[Tim Curtis]

Menu > Configure > Library
REGENERATE Album cver thumbnail cache

- Clear your Browser cache
- Look in the moode log for the stats and any errors during thumbnail generation

The log can be viewed via the SSH command moodeutl -l or downloaded via the Logs section in System Config, or via Menu, System info from any of the Config screens. The startup log will be at the end of System info output.

[MartinB]

Menu > Configure > Library
REGENERATE Album cver thumbnail cache

- Clear your Browser cache
- Look in the moode log for the stats and any errors during thumbnail generation

The log can be viewed via the SSH command moodeutl -l or downloaded via the Logs section in System Config, or via Menu, System info from  any of the Config screens. The startup log will be at the end of System info output.

Thanks, that worked 

There were some errors in the logs, but not in the dirs i added the thumbnails. They show nicely now.


The errors I did see where things like:

Code:

20241213 095438 thumb-gen: Error: File does not contain ID3v2 tag: NAS/nas/MP3/Dire Straits/Dire Straits - Alchemy (Dire Straits Live)/Dire Straits 205 - going
home.mp3
20241213 095414 thumb-gen: Error: Zend bad Frame ID (NCON) in file: NAS/nas/MP3/Clapton, Eric/[1994] Blues Rehearsals (Bootleg)/Clapton, Eric - Someday While.mp3
20241213 095539 thumb-gen: Image file: Not a valid file path
20241213 095539 thumb-gen: Error: imagecreatefromstring() failed: NAS/nas/MP3/Veldhuis en Kemper/Veldhuis en Kemper - Half zo echt - 12 - Zo Voelt 't Dus.mp3
2024

Most is just missing embedded images. I guess i don't need to be worried about these errors?
Thanks,
Martin

[Nutul]

Menu > Configure > Library
REGENERATE Album cver thumbnail cache

- Clear your Browser cache
- Look in the moode log for the stats and any errors during thumbnail generation

The log can be viewed via the SSH command moodeutl -l or downloaded via the Logs section in System Config, or via Menu, System info from  any of the Config screens. The startup log will be at the end of System info output.

Thanks, that worked 

There were some errors in the logs, but not in the dirs i added the thumbnails. They show nicely now.


The errors I did see where things like:

Code:

20241213 095438 thumb-gen: Error: File does not contain ID3v2 tag: NAS/nas/MP3/Dire Straits/Dire Straits - Alchemy (Dire Straits Live)/Dire Straits 205 - going
home.mp3
20241213 095414 thumb-gen: Error: Zend bad Frame ID (NCON) in file: NAS/nas/MP3/Clapton, Eric/[1994] Blues Rehearsals (Bootleg)/Clapton, Eric - Someday While.mp3
20241213 095539 thumb-gen: Image file: Not a valid file path
20241213 095539 thumb-gen: Error: imagecreatefromstring() failed: NAS/nas/MP3/Veldhuis en Kemper/Veldhuis en Kemper - Half zo echt - 12 - Zo Voelt 't Dus.mp3
2024

Most is just missing embedded images. I guess i don't need to be worried about these errors?
Thanks,
Martin

Three different unhappy situations here:
1. a MP3 file does not contain a valid ID3v2 tag (that is, the metadata, and possibly the embedded album art)
(probably you won't be able to see that file in the library)
2. an unrecognized frame ID (NCON... maybe it was ICON, not sure... anyway, bad)
(this most probably has no impact on the file being imported into your library)
3. Invalid file path could be caused by the single quote in the file name
(this probably will result as in 1.)

I suggest to replace all the fancy characters in the filenames - quote, doublequote, comma, colon, semicolon, etc. etc. - with underscores, and leave the metadata in the TAGS do the job of specifying artist, album, track, etc. etc., as MPD can scan a file named just a.mp3 but catalogue it properly using the metadata in its ID3v2 tag... the filename is totally irrelevant (OK, not to you; but you got the point, right?)

I mentioned ID3v2, as it seems to me you are dealing with MP3s; it goes alone that for FLACs you should use a VorbisComment tag system instead (a proper tagging software would kbe aware of this, and take proper decisions based on the file types).

[MartinB]

Menu > Configure > Library
REGENERATE Album cver thumbnail cache

- Clear your Browser cache
- Look in the moode log for the stats and any errors during thumbnail generation

The log can be viewed via the SSH command moodeutl -l or downloaded via the Logs section in System Config, or via Menu, System info from  any of the Config screens. The startup log will be at the end of System info output.

Thanks, that worked 

There were some errors in the logs, but not in the dirs i added the thumbnails. They show nicely now.


The errors I did see where things like:

Code:

20241213 095438 thumb-gen: Error: File does not contain ID3v2 tag: NAS/nas/MP3/Dire Straits/Dire Straits - Alchemy (Dire Straits Live)/Dire Straits 205 - going
home.mp3
20241213 095414 thumb-gen: Error: Zend bad Frame ID (NCON) in file: NAS/nas/MP3/Clapton, Eric/[1994] Blues Rehearsals (Bootleg)/Clapton, Eric - Someday While.mp3
20241213 095539 thumb-gen: Image file: Not a valid file path
20241213 095539 thumb-gen: Error: imagecreatefromstring() failed: NAS/nas/MP3/Veldhuis en Kemper/Veldhuis en Kemper - Half zo echt - 12 - Zo Voelt 't Dus.mp3
2024

Most is just missing embedded images. I guess i don't need to be worried about these errors?
Thanks,
Martin

Three different unhappy situations here:
1. a MP3 file does not contain a valid ID3v2 tag (that is, the metadata, and possibly the embedded album art)
(probably you won't be able to see that file in the library)
2. an unrecognized frame ID (NCON... maybe it was ICON, not sure... anyway, bad)
(this most probably has no impact on the file being imported into your library)
3. Invalid file path could be caused by the single quote in the file name
(this probably will result as in 1.)

I suggest to replace all the fancy characters in the filenames - quote, doublequote, comma, colon, semicolon, etc. etc. - with underscores, and leave the metadata in the TAGS do the job of specifying artist, album, track, etc. etc., as MPD can scan a file named just a.mp3 but catalogue it properly using the metadata in its ID3v2 tag... the filename is totally irrelevant (OK, not to you; but you got the point, right?)

I mentioned ID3v2, as it seems to me you are dealing with MP3s; it goes alone that for FLACs you should use a VorbisComment tag system instead (a proper tagging software would kbe aware of this, and take proper decisions based on the file types).

Thanks for the explanation.
I have a number of different formats, including Flac and MP3. I'll start fixing tags and filenames.

Best regards,
Martin