Hi, as far as I can see there are two providers for local files, banshee and rhythmbox that behaves like this:
Banshee: (1) Loads whatever album art is available at the time of import and populates a directory in ~/.cache/ with album arts previews. This album art can be: (a) embedded in the mp3 files (b) an album.png/jpg file in the track directory (c) retrieve online (using a plugin). (2) If the album-art is added (but not modified, for instance, if a track did not have any album art and an album.png file is dropped in the track's directory) the album-art is updated in the cache directory. * Problem (mild) if someone adds new music files to his/her Music directory, the album art will only show in the music-lens *after* banshee has been launched (to update its database and ~/.cache directory) Rhythmbox: (1) Loads the album art (a) embedded in the file or (b) retrieved online (via a plugin I think) but does not honor album.png and such files. (2) Album art is only loaded when a song is played. * Problem (this bug report): the album-art does not show up until the song has been played in rhythmbox, which is far from optimal. ----------------------- unity-lens-music does the following: Banshee provider: if the thumbnail is not available through banshee, return a default icon Rhythmbox provider: if the thumbnail is not available through rhythmbox, try through nautilus thumbnail cache, then try to read a 'cover' directory in ~/.cache/rhyhmbox which should contain a thumbnail for the track. If all that fails, return the default icon. ----------------------- I'm attaching the following proof of concept patch which tries to load the following files: album, cover, folder (optionally prefixed with a "." and ending with ".png" or ".jpg") from the directory containing the track. An updated package is available for quantal on my ppa: https://launchpad.net/~kim.nguyen/+archive/ppa I've done some limited testing with either banshee or rhythmbox installed, wiping their caches and re-importing my mp3 files. The result seems ok. Enjoy. ** Patch added: "Also loads album.png and other similar files from the track's directory if getting the thumbnail from banshee or rhythmbox fails." https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-lens-music/+bug/976067/+attachment/3443531/+files/unity-lens-music-display-album.png.patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/976067 Title: Missing album art To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/976067/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
