[mythtv-users] Imported CDs & Metadata - Did I Take a Wrong Turn?

[Paul Harrison]

On 04/01/15 10:20, Paul Harrison wrote:
>
> On 04/01/15 01:11, jim wrote:
>> I have finally started importing my CDs into MythTV. Each CD is stored
>> into a folder structure of Artist/Album/Tracks. After running Scan for
>> New Music, Select Music and Play Music work as advertised. One item that
>> is missing though is the album cover art. Am I missing a step or some
>> configuration choice? Does MythTV gather metadata for CDs like it does
>> for TV shows and movies?
>>
>
> Currently MythMusic doesn't gather metadata but it's something
> that's slowly being worked on.
>
> If you have a cover art image in the same directory as your tracks
> then the file scan should pick that up and make a guess if it is a front
> cover, back cover, inlay etc based on the file name of the image.
>
> You can also manually add cover art using the metadata editor. With
> a track selected press EDIT (e) to show the metadata editor and press
> MENU (m) and choose one of the Search Internet for Images options.
> It's not perfect you can't really use it without a mouse but it's all we
> have at the moment.
>
> You can find images for Album, Artist and Genre that way. You can also
> change the role of the images already found in the Album Art editor.
>

I forgot to mention if your tracks have embedded cover art in the tags then
they will be used as well.

Paul H.