Hello

I really appreciated the announced function to include the automatical search for missing cover artworks. Until now I had to download all covers manually and put them to the albums folder. This was sufficient for amaroK to display the artwork in previous versions. Not so in 1.1.1:

I had correct cover artworks in the folders of almost all >300 albums on my harddisk (self encoded stuff, of course) and amaroK does not make use of them but fetches partly completely wrong artworks from the web - now I have to manage my whole collection again

Maybe one can change that by letting amaroK scan also the folder where the music is?

Why does amaroK now store the image files all in ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/albumcovers/large/?
I would prefer to store them in the same folder where the album is because then I can directly write a CD together with the artwork to e.g. play music & display artwork via DVD-player & TV set. The system now forces me to search the correct album cover on my harddisk and copy it to the album's folder. Let's put it directly there.

Ciao

Marco

wrt to the why amaroK stores the covers where it does. This is a very FAQ, it's to do with amazon.

Your other issue sounds like amaroK is broken, report the bug at bugs.kde.org please. Thanks!

Sorry mxcl

I'm not native english so I have might have problems to get all the content in your short answer. I'm sorry for that.

The cover manager fetches the covers from amazon and therefore it has to be stored separately from the album folders, is this correct?

What do you mean exactly with my "other issue" which I should report as a bug?
The problem that it does not recognize the image files in the album folders on hd? Or that amaroK fetches completely wrong album covers?

Thanks

Marco

Yes. It should recognise your own covers and use them. This is a bug.

And yes, we have to store amazon covers separately due to amazon licensing.