[HOW TO] force folder.pjg

[El bubar]

bonjour tim

with "the cover search priority" put to "cover file". the pb is by-passed. All cover are well displayed.....
merci !

[Tim Curtis]

I have the same view you have in play view : the image is correct one 

but in the view "album" it's a wrong image
idem in view "show track" 
idem  in the tag view


do yu have a idea ? 

si tu ne connais pas Alain Bashung, je me permets de recommander l'écoute :-)

The covers are fine in all the views on my end.
Its very odd that different covers show up as thumbnails for the album.

Maybe check those albums for:
- hidden "dot" files
- hidden duplicates of the albums
- permissions

You could also move those albums to a separate USB drive and just use that drive as the sole music source. Regenerate the Library and see if the issue occurs.

[TheOldPresbyope]

@El bubar 
@Tim Curtis

Interesting behavior.

If it remains an issue I have time to look into it this evening. You can send me a PM with the link to the folder contents of an offending album.

Regards,
Kent

[Tim Curtis]

@El bubar 
@Tim Curtis

Interesting behavior.

If it remains an issue I have time to look into it this evening. You can send me a PM with the link to the folder contents of an offending album.

Regards,
Kent

I sent u and @Nutul the download link

[TheOldPresbyope]

@El bubar 
@Tim Curtis

Interesting behavior.

If it remains an issue I have time to look into it this evening. You can send me a PM with the link to the folder contents of an offending album.

Regards,
Kent

I sent u and @Nutul the download link

Thanks.

It's downloading (rather slowly) now.

Regards,
Kent

[Nutul]

It's downloading (rather slowly) now.

Same here :-)

BTW... couldn't it be a cache issue? I mean, he could have generated the thumbnails beginning from a certain set of images, then added a folder.jpg and regenerated them; but the image in the browser's cache...

Using the "embedded" priority works 1000%, it is the only method I use, although I never tried it _WITH_ any image in the same folder...
ASA it finishes the download (at about 400MB now... 1.4GB to go) I'll give it a check.

[TheOldPresbyope]

In my quick check of the download, I can repro the kinds of views that @El bubar is talking about, specifically with respect to the Alain Bashung album. Will code walk later when I have time.

Regards,
Kent

[TheOldPresbyope]

@Tim Curtis 

Deleting all image files except Cover.jpg and folder.jpg, cleared all caches I could think of, and repeated loading the new albums. Now coverart and thumbnails agree everywhere.

Hmmm. 

So I started over again with all the track and image files after emptying the Library and caches, and restarting moOde. This time, though, I uncommented some workerLog() lines in util/thumb-gen.php before loading the new albums.

Here's what I consider a smoking gun from the moode.log entries [note that I had changed the directory name from 'exemple 2 with...' to 'osez josephine']

Code:

20230729 231433 thumb-gen: Path: /var/lib/mpd/music/USB/KAR01/Music/El Bubar/osez josephine/Inlay.jpg

Inlay.jpg is the wrong image file but as OP said back in Post #3 it appears to be the last image file in the directory.

I'll get back to this tomorrow.

Regards,
Kent

[Nutul]

From the (i) help of the Thumbgen scan option in preferences (for the "+" options - Default+ and All+... what is such option in your setup?):

NOTE: Incorrect thumbnails may appear in the Library if the Album folder also contains image files and "Cover search priority" is set to Embedded.

So, it looks like @Tim Curtis was aware of the possibility of the thumbnail generator getting confused adding the functionality of images being always searched ...
I haven't investigated why, as the code seems to work perfectly, looking at what and how it does it; but if I find some time this evening I may give it a closer look.

[TheOldPresbyope]

@Nutul

The help button, huh? Wish I’d thought of that