[mythtv-users] Album Cover Art in Mythmusic

Kevin Kuphal kevin.kuphal at myrealbox.com
Sun Apr 18 08:56:34 EDT 2004


Yes, although it should have been added when you upgraded.  It is a varchar
with a length of 128.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Jason Giddens
> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 1:49 AM
> To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Album Cover Art in Mythmusic
> 
> 
> Ok, I got phpMyAdmin installed and working.  I browsed to the 
> settings table, and there is no entry named AlbumArtFilter, 
> or anything similar. There are 685 entries, and none seem to 
> have anything to do with art. Should I create the entry?
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Kuphal
> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 8:32 PM
> To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Album Cover Art in Mythmusic
> 
> 
> Typically I use phpMyAdmin to do database work.  It's a web 
> based administration tool for MySQL.  Do a google on 
> phpMyAdmin and you'll find it with instructions on setting it 
> up.  The value is in the "settings" table and is named 
> AlbumArtFilter and will take a semi-colon delimited set of 
> wildcards like *.jpeg;*.jpg or like mine: .folder.png;Folder.jpg
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> > [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Jason Giddens
> > Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 6:34 PM
> > To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
> > Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Album Cover Art in Mythmusic
> > 
> > 
> > Hmm.  I am about to go n00b on you, but I don't know how to
> > change the database option.  Care to explain in more detail 
> > how to fix this?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> > [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Kuphal
> > Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 12:32 PM
> > To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
> > Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Album Cover Art in Mythmusic
> > 
> > 
> > Actually, AlbumArt vizualization should pick up, by default,
> > .jpeg/jpg, .bmp, .png, and .gif.  There is a setting in the 
> > DB (I'm not sure if it made it into the GUI) to set the 
> > wildcard.  You can set it restrictive (like
> > folder.png) or expand it, but it defaults to the above wildcards.
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> > > [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Mike Jasper
> > > Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 10:53 AM
> > > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Album Cover Art in Mythmusic
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Jason Giddens wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > What format/filename does cover art need to be for it to be
> > > recognized
> > > > in Mythmusic?  I have cover art for all of my albums saved as 
> > > > cover.jpg in the same directory as the album contents, but
> > > it doesn't
> > > > show up in Mythmusic.
> > > > 
> > > > What do I need to do?
> > > 
> > > Do you have all the visualizations enabled?  Maybe it just hasn't 
> > > cycled to AlbumArt yet.  Under Music Settings > Player Settings >
> > > Visualizations, type in AlbumArt.  Also uncheck "Change 
> > Visualizer On
> > > Each Song."  Then you'll only be using AlbumArt.
> > > 
> > > I used the albumart program
> > > (http://louhi.kempele.fi/~skyostil/projects/albumart/) to
> > > grab my album 
> > > cover images.  It creates three files in each album directory - 
> > > folder.jpg, .folder.png, and .directory.  The two images are 
> > > identical, 
> > > just saved as different formats.  The program says it creates 
> > > ".folder.png and an Icon entry in .directory for Konqueror, 
> > etc." - I
> > > believe the .jpg is what's used for AlbumArt in myth.
> > > 
> > > 
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