[mythtv-users] Album art in MythMusic

ajp at cantabrian.co.nz ajp at cantabrian.co.nz
Sun Nov 3 16:56:51 UTC 2013


>> On Saturday 02 Nov 2013 19:44:04 Karl Newman wrote:
>> > I recently updated my flac files to add album art and fix the 
>> > tagging, etc.
>> > However, when I perform a re-scan, it doesn't pick up the added 
>> > album art tags. For new files, it does detect it and display it 
>> > correctly, so it shouldn't be a tag format issue. I hope there's a 
>> > way to trigger MythMusic to detect it. It would be annoying to have 
>> > to re-import everything (and set up all the playlists again).
>> 
>> It's likely that when you updated the tags, the tagging program 
>> deliberately preserved the modification timestamp, I know EasyTag does
this by default.
>> As a result MythTV doesn't recognise that the files have altered in 
>> anyway and skips them in the scan.
>> 
>> The best solution would be to 'touch' all those files. Alternatively, 
>> if you've only modified a few files you can manually request mythmusic 
>> to recheck for album art track by track. Press E on a selected track 
>> to bring up the Metadata Editor, select the Album Artwork button, then 
>> press MENU, select Rescan for Images.
I also spend considerable time, too much really, getting my music in FLAC
and as far as I can tell, Myth 0.25 simply doesn't find artwork in FLAC. The
only thing that works for me is to put my artwork as a jpg/png in the same
folder.

Not nearly as good as embedded artwork but at least it worked.



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