Cover art on Amarok 2.2.1

AG computing.account at googlemail.com
Mon Jan 11 18:00:27 UTC 2010


Simon ESNEAULT wrote:
> Try the copy cover script 
> : http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=113293, it will 
> automatically write the image which has been fetched on the directory 
> of the current track.
>
> -Simon
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:20, Valorie Zimmerman 
> <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com <mailto:valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 4:34 AM, AG
>     <computing.account at googlemail.com
>     <mailto:computing.account at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>     > Hello
>     >
>     > I keep coming across this problem and it is the main reason why I am
>     > becoming increasingly reluctant to rely on Amarok as my default
>     mp3/ogg
>     > player:
>     >
>     > The album art shows up in the data base when I use the Cover
>     Manager,
>     > but, each time I play an album or a track so the album cover just
>     > doesn't show up.  When I try to manually retrieve it (a) there is no
>     > longer any choice for the source from which I can retrieve the
>     cover and
>     > (b) a little dialog box appears saying "unable to find a cover
>     for the
>     > specified song".  This is completely unhelpful.  I do have the
>     > "automatically fetch covers" options checked, but that doesn't
>     help either.
>     >
>     > I am running Amarok with the full KDE libraries on an updated Debian
>     > testing machine.
>     >
>     > Any help please?
>     >
>     > AG
>
>     One way to absolutely have the cover image you want, is to put a copy
>     of "cover.jp <http://cover.jp>" or "cover.png" inside the folder
>     of the album. Some
>     tagging programs will do the fetching for you automatically. A bit
>     time-intensive, but positively fool-proof.
>
>     Valorie, who has started doing this, especially for compilations
>
>     PS: Cover-fetching has been given some love in 2.2.2, I hear. Today!
>
>     --
>
Valorie and Simon - thanks.

Simon, I don't see anything that would suggest how this gets installed - 
no installation script, etc.  Can you advise please?

Cheers

AG
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