ok so I just installed Amarok on my YDL 6.0 PS3 setup last night. It seems to work great only it recognizes about 1/4 of my (60+gb) libraries Album Art...why is this. All of my tracks were personally tagged with art (as aposed to some auto art from amazon method) by myself in itunes on a mac. Any clue why only a fraction of the art is being recognized by Amarok?

Did you manually add the artwork in iTunes?  iTunes does not embed art by default, so If iTunes grabs album art automatically for an album and you didn't manually add it, then you'll need to option-click on the artwork and click Copy, then highlight the album and hit Command + i, then option-click inside the artwork box and click Paste, then save the changes.

Having said this, I did the above for my entire MP3 collection on my Mac, and then copied the collection over to my Linux box at work and Amarok is still refusing to see 65 of my albums.  This isn't the OSD album art bug, it just flat out doesn't see the artwork, not in the OSD and not when viewing an album in the Collection pane.  I painstakingly checked all of my MP3s for embedded artwork using MP3Tag and every last one of them has an embedded image.  I checked my collection base directory (~/Music) for image files that could be confusing Amarok, and as you can see there are no non-MP3 files whatsoever:

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mercury@shadow:~/Music$ find ./ -type f | fgrep -iv .mp3 | wc -l
0

I did some googling and saw a lot of issues related to taglib versions before 1.5.  I am running Kubuntu 8.04, and for some reason their repositories have not been updated to 1.5, they remain at version 1.4:

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mercury@shadow:~/Music$ sudo dpkg -l | grep libtag
ii  libtag1c2a                                 1.4-8ubuntu1                                               TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library

So, I downloaded the source for version 1.5, compiled and installed it into /usr/local/lib, then updated the symlink located at /usr/lib/libtag.so.1 to point to the 1.5 version in /usr/local/lib.  After closing and re-opening Amarok, I had it rescan my collection and there has been no change.  The same 65 albums have no artwork displayed in Amarok, when I know full well that the artwork exists.

I'm frankly getting ready to pull out what little hair I have, does anyone know if there is a solution to this problem?

OK, I believe I have finally found the answer to this.  Using MP3Tag, which I already had installed using Wine, I noticed that the "Bad" albums all had ID3v2.2 tags.  I re-saved a few albums' tags using MP3Tag and they were overwritten using ID3v2.3 tags.  After re-scanning my collection, these albums are now showing artwork properly in Amarok.

I checked the KDE Bugzilla and found that a similar bug had been reported (this one regarding ID3 v2.4 tags not displaying properly) and that it was supposedly resolved in taglib 1.5.  However, I installed taglib 1.5 already and was still having trouble, so I filed a new bug:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167786


For now though, simply opening the MP3s in a tag editor and saving them to ID3 v2.3 should hopefully resolve this for you, citizenchris099.