Hello,

I have some songs that already had an album cover before I imported them to Amarok. I changed many of those covers (using the Fetch Cover function), but when I went for a full rescan of my collection, the old covers came back.

Is this an expected behavior? Do I need to "export/save" the new album covers?

Using Amarok 2.3.2

Thanks

You can click on a track in play list or collection browser and unset cover (Album->Unset cover), After the next collection rescan you will see your embedded cover. If you have a lot of such files, you can just remove ~/.kde4/share/apps/amarok/albumcovers/ directory, It will clean covers cache for all tracks.

I tried doing the procedure suggested. I deleted my albumcovers folder, which is located at:
~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/albumcovers/

This DID NOT removed the covers from existing albums.

Then, what I tried doing was:
1. Manually unsetting an album cover (Album->Unset Cover)
2. The unsetted cover would appear at the cache folder in albumcovers
3. I delete the cover from albumcovers
4. I set a new cover (Album->Fetch Cover)
5. Restart Amarok

And then... the old cover is back!

I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 and GNOME 2.32.0.

Albumcover - is the only place where amarok store not embedded covers by default. The reason why covers didn't get removed - amarok was running when you removed this folder, or amarok fetch covers faster then you noticed that they were lost.
Try that:
1. Disable automatic cover fetching in settings.
2. Remove albumcovers folder.
3. Run full collection scan, to make amarok notice embedded covers.
On first 2 steps amarok supposed to be down.

I did as suggested and the result is still the same.

I think the problem is that the songs have a default albumcover, which were (I'm guessing here) set by iTunes - I copied these songs from my brother.

Would I need to go back to iTunes in order to remove them?

It's certainly possible that the covers are embedded in the file, usually an alphanumerical code in the file.

If you can get into the file then take out the comment tag, either using a tag editor (kid3, easytag) or in amarok

Sonic wrote:It's certainly possible that the covers are embedded in the file, usually an alphanumerical code in the file.

Nonsense. Embedded means the image is part of the file itself.

Sonic wrote:If you can get into the file then take out the comment tag, either using a tag editor (kid3, easytag) or in amarok

Next nonsense. Removing the comment doesn't remove the cover, just the comment.
Which could be a MusicBrainz ID or checksum, if it looks like an alphanumeric string

iSucks doesn't set a default cover. iSucks in general does nothing, but eating up PC's resources.
These tracks have embedded covers, which can be removed with a masstagger.
I prefer easytag

m0nk

I tried removing the embedded images, but I didn't succeed. All steps were done with Amarok closed and I removed the albumcovers folder before starting.

I first tried EasyTag. When I go to a specific song, I have some ID3 tags filled: title, artist and album. The Pictures part is empty. So nothing I can change.

I also tried eyeD3, which has a --remove-images option, and that didn't remove the images. I then tried removing all tags (ID3 1.x and 2.x) - all tags were indeed removed, I retyped the title, artist and album (the same way as they were before) tags and started Amarok. After a Collection Rescan, the old covers came back!

Do you have cover images inside the folders?
This is the last resort, I can imagine.

m0nk

No image files inside the folder...

Are you sure that you disabled Covers Fetching in amarok settings before cache removing?
Check list:
1) Covers fetching disabled
2) Cache clear
3) No embedded covers
4) No images inside track directory
If all conditions performed - you can run amarok. If covers are still there, you need exorcist for your PC, 'cos It's simply impossible, there is no another place amarok store/takes covers.

Unbelievable! I can't get rid of the album covers!

Here's exactly what I did:

1. Open Amarok
2. Disable Automatic art cover retrieving
3. Unset album cover for all songs from an artist.
4. Close Amarok
5. Delete albumcovers folder
6. Run eyeD3 --remove-all for all songs who had their covers removed in step 3.
7. With easytag, retype the title, album and artist for the songs. I checked and there's nothing in the Images section.
8. Reopen Amarok and do full rescan - it seemed like it had worked, the album cover was empty.
9. I closed Amarok and opened again, and did another full rescan - and the images came back.

There doesn't seem to be any images in the folder. I even checked for hidden files. Could it be inside another folder?

I don't know if this matters, but all my songs that have an album cover have exactly the same image.

Please run the following:

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find /path/to/collection -name "*.jpg" -o -name "*.png"

It will list all jpg/png files located in your collection, as it is possible they may be stored as hidden files, which this command will also find.

bcooksley wrote:Please run the following:

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find /path/to/collection -name "*.jpg" -o -name "*.png"

It will list all jpg/png files located in your collection, as it is possible they may be stored as hidden files, which this command will also find.

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