Hi!

I have about 300 albums in my collection but cover art is displayed only for 5 of them. I recently copied all cover images to the folders containing albums' music files. After that I deleted all files from ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/albumcovers/cache. First, cover manager did show covers correctly but after a while, only 5 were displayed. So far i've tried

1. setting a custom cover, doesn't affect anything.

2. rescanning the collection, doesn't do a thing either.

3. uninstalling Amarok, removing ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok, re-installing, nothing changed.

I thought Amarok might have a table for cached cover images and they can't be shown because it refers to files that do no exist. I just can't find one so I'm starting to feel hopeless...

Have a look at the folder in $HOME/.kde/share/apps/amarok/albumcovers/cache

I don't know if this helps, but I guess it is worth a try. Don't forget to backup the folder before erasing it's content, though.

borje_88 wrote:Hi!

I have about 300 albums in my collection but cover art is displayed only for 5 of them. I recently copied all cover images to the folders containing albums' music files. After that I deleted all files from ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/albumcovers/cache. First, cover manager did show covers correctly but after a while, only 5 were displayed. So far i've tried

1. setting a custom cover, doesn't affect anything.

2. rescanning the collection, doesn't do a thing either.

3. uninstalling Amarok, removing ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok, re-installing, nothing changed.

I thought Amarok might have a table for cached cover images and they can't be shown because it refers to files that do no exist. I just can't find one so I'm starting to feel hopeless...

I have a question, because it seems that you have done everything right. What name did you give the cover images in the album folders? They should all be cover.jpg or .png -- NOT their own distinctive filenames, such as the album name. Perhaps you've done this, but I just thought I'd ask.

All the best,

Valorie

Ok, as my problems usually are, this one wasn't that complex either. The script I used (CopyCover2) to save images in respective folders played a trick on me. It saved images in png-format but the file names were cover.jpg. Apparently Amarok doesn't check the actual format of the images but assumes that the file extension is correct.

@valoriez
Filename of the cover image doesn't matter at all. Amarok seems to use the first image it finds in the folder. My cover images have artist-album.jpg as name and they were all found on scan. Perhaps special filenames work with more than one image in the folder.
On the other hand, this won't work with multiple artists and covers in one folder.
@mamarok
borje_88 wrote:

After that I deleted all files from ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/albumcovers/cache

you answered:

Have a look at the folder in $HOME/.kde/share/apps/amarok/albumcovers/cache

So....???

Regards
m0nk

We have made some changes to the cover art handling in 2.3.

Maybe give 2.3-Beta a try? We like to get feedback, for fixing all remaining issues.


http://amarok.kde.org/en/releases/2.3/beta/1