Bugzilla – Bug 2234
Artwork display problems
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:22:32 UTC
Using the Fishbone skin, I have noticed the following: 1. Artwork not displayed when browsing an album with many tracks. If I browse an album that has over 50 tracks, the album artwork is only displayed on the second (perhaps only last?) page. eg. An album with 53 tracks displays the first 50 tracks on page one, but no artwork. Navigating to the 2nd (in this case last) page displays the last three tracks and the album artwork. I think it would be more appropriate to display the artwork on every page of tracks. 2. Large album artwork is scaled down nicely to fit in a page. However, if I navigate to song info, the large unscaled album artwork is still displayed. I also get an error reported on line 36 "Object doesn't support this property or method".
I have discovered more information to report on part (1): I have just stumbled across another album where the artwork is displayed on both pages of tracks. I think the problem I had with artwork not being displayed is something to do with cue sheets. I have an album ripped to a single mp3 file and tracks defined using a cue sheet. When I browse to the album, it displays the physical track containing the whole CD, followed by the individual songs. The artwork is for some reason not associated with the complete CD track, only the individual songs.
artwork and cue sheets is not skin dependant. please confirm the issue using other skins. I have a feeling that this is a dupe, but I can't actually find it.
#2 should be fixedd for Oct 3 build.
Phil: Please check the latest nightly and see if it's resolved. If you are still having an issue, please reopen the bug. Thanks!
Still doesn't work in build 4551 (05-oct nightly). Will try with today's nightly when it is available.
Please check other skins on the cue sheet issue. When you say "still doesn't work" are you referring to #1 AND #2? can you attach the cue sheet or whatever it is for this 50-track album
Created attachment 893 [details] 1 of 3 cue sheets for music on 3-CD compilation album The "Chilled Ibiza Gold" album is a 3-CD compilation, where tracks are nicely cross-faded. Therefore I have the CDs ripped as 1 mp3 per disk, and used cue sheets to define the index points. When I browse the album, I see the three mp3 files, followed by the information extracted from the cue sheets (ordered by track number, not disk+track number). The first page doesn't have artwork, the second page does.
Sorry, I meant #1 still doesn't work (I confirmed with KDF a while back that #2 was fixed for Fishbone skin). I still only see the artwork on page 2, not page 1.
and, where is the artwork stored for this one? id3 tag or cover.jpg file in the same folder?
The artwork is in folder.jpg, in the same directory as the mp3 and cue sheet files.
I'm really clueless as to how the server is handling cue sheets, so I apologise for all the questions. Somewhere along the way, the main file was supposed to be dumped when multiple files exist from a CUE. If this is still the case, there would be no entry in the DB to which to tie a cover image. I'll see if I can somehow set up a test case with this info. I dont have any long files to work with, so we'll see. If you feel up to it, a section of a d_scan d_info log and a section of a d_artwork log might help. In both cases, the section that mentions these files/album would be what I'm after. The d_artwork might also show something useful as you try to load the browse album page for this album.
Now that bug 2242 is resolved, I can see that the disc number is not being picked up from the tag in the cue sheet. I'm wondering if I should try to resolve this issue to see if it helps with the association to the album artwork. Actually, I just noticed that if I click on any individual song, I get the artwork in the song info display, but not if I click any of the 3 mp3 files (which contain all songs for the disk combined). I assume the album association isn't working for these, and that the page only displays the artwork associated with the first listed track. If the combined track files weren't listed (no need to), this would solve the issue. I guess this is what you were talking about in comment #11, para 1.
right. I think at this point, it needs to go back to dan. aorry :(
Thanks for your help KDF. At least I can understand a bit better what is happening now.
d_artwork should still tell you everything that is going on when the server tried to retrieve artwork. Thumbnails are done as part of the rescan, but cover art in browse albums should be live. you'll be able to see what the server is using for the references to call up artwork on any given page. lines like this: 005-10-07 13:49:22.9654 Retrieving artwork (cover) for: file:///D:/mp3/JIMMY%20EAT%20WORLD%20-%20Sweetness.mp3 005-10-07 13:49:22.9668 Found cached cover file: D:\mp3\cover.jpg and it will show failed steps as well.
I can see the following entry in the log for each individual track, but not for the combined .mp3 files: 2005-10-07 22:20:32.1432 Retrieving artwork (cover) for: file:///M:/Music/Phil% 27s%20Music/Various%20Artists/Chilled%20Ibiza%20Gold/Chilled%20Ibiza%20Gold% 20CD3.mp3 2005-10-07 22:20:32.2121 Found cached cover file: M:\Music\Phil's Music\Various Artists\Chilled Ibiza Gold\folder.jpg
KDF: What do you think here?
no more thoughts. see above. I gave up on this one since it seems to be cue sheet related. the handling of cue sheets never made sense to me. either the combined file has to be properly handled, or properly ignored.
Another bug report has fixed cue sheet support, such that the base file is not listed under the album, only the songs that it contains. This has fixed part 1 of this bug - artwork is now displayed.
cool, so that now has this one covered.