[mythtv-users] Album art in MythMusic

Karl Newman newmank1 at asme.org
Mon Nov 4 04:29:00 UTC 2013


On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 1:14 AM, Stuart Morgan <stuart at tase.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>  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.
>>
>>
>>
> No, I verified that they all had updated timestamps, and when I re-scanned
> it took a long time, so it obviously saw the difference in timestamp, but
> failed to pick up the added artwork. I used a combination of MusicBrainz
> Picard and MP3Tag (both on Windows).
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Stuart Morgan
>>
>
> I was wondering how to edit the metadata. I think that's the only forced
> use of "E" anywhere in the frontend (where there's no alternate path to get
> there), so I don't have it mapped to anything. The menu ought to let you
> get there, too, but bafflingly in MythMusic it seems to be only a "global"
> menu, not a contextual (and global) menu like it is everywhere else.
>
> Karl
>

I discovered something else--the new files had an album art jpg in the
directory. Does MythMusic not read the album art from tags? I have flac
files, not exactly sure which tag format though, but both Picard and MP3Tag
had no problems with them.

Karl
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