Album cover art nor showing under "ALBUMS"

[ranperry]

I am using Nginx to serve images. All images are showing when I play or search for an artist. When using the "ALBUMS" tab, the list of the library comes up but no images. Clicking on "Reset Image" or "Download another image" does not work.

Nexus 9 / Android 6.0 MPD 0.19.10

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[avuton]

Pretty sure that's a restriction of the plugin. Can't look right now, but if I remember right there's a reason... And that's if that is the only enabled album art plugin.

[ranperry]

I believe this used to work sometimes in the past. It was too buggy at that time and I have only started experimenting with this feature tonight. There was an issue with the "artist" and "albumartist" tags. Not sure if this is still the case.

[avuton]

Yes! There's a limitation with that screen in particular. We don't know the path for each of those albums, and that information would be very expensive to grab.

[avuton]

That's coming off my head. It'll work if you go to an artist first. It just will not function in that screen.

[avuton]

This could change in the future, but, I'm pretty sure it's never functioned like that. That would be very expensive.

[ranperry]

Indeed. But you have to do this only once per album.

[avuton]

So, when you have an insane number of albums? That's a bad and arbitrary problem. Needs to be solved with a better solution. Either way, this will likely not be solved soon, if ever.

[ranperry]

It is much easier to view your collection than to read the directories names.

[avuton]

Of course it is! Then stop limiting the album art to the local plugin, silly!

[ranperry]

I have enabled "Download cover art". Same behavior.

[avuton]

Turn on the cache.

[ranperry]

It was always on.

[avuton]

Works here. Requires a reset after changing some of these options.

[avuton]

Reset of the app. Kill-> restart

[avuton]

Which, also, you're saying cover downloading is completely broken? What version are you running?

[ranperry]

Latest version. 1.08 Beta 4

[ranperry]

Reset the app. Now there is only a list of albums. Not even the place holder for the cover art.

[avuton]

You're playing with the options. They're confusing. I suggest resetting them as I don't want to guide you through how to fix this. Though this does motivate me to work on removing some of this crap.

[ranperry]

As you wish. We can try this later via Google Hangout if you have the time.

[abarisain]

Now there is only a list of albums. Not even the place holder for the cover art.

Yeah that happens when the cache is off. We will never be able to get the cover art, so we show a list.

[hurzl]

As you don't have the artist shown I doubt you are using the cache ... ?

[ranperry]

OK, took some time but I can reproduce this in the following scenario:

1. Remove "albumartist" from MPD "metadata to use"
2. Rescan my library
3. MPDroid does not load images under "ALBUMS"
4. Add "metadata to use"
5. Rescan my library
6. MPDroid does load images under "ALBUMS"

Also, the setting on MPDroid specifying which tag to use (artist, albumartist or both) seems irrelevant and have no impact on the result.

[abarisain]

What do your "albumartist" tags look like?

[ranperry]

I rarely use it but when I do, it is the same as "artist"

[hurzl]

I have "metadata_to_use" undefined, so the default apparently contains the albumartist.

[ranperry]

avuton, anything I can try to help with this?

[n03l]

I'm experiencing the same problem. I tried changing the "metadata_to_use" (from albumartist to artist), but that didn't seem to help.

I'm running MPDroid 1.08 beta 4 and MPD 0.18.12.

[n03l]

While playing around, I enable the album cache (the cover cache was already enabled), and now covers are showing up properly.