Covers

[Jan Depner]

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 11:52 +0200, Rich wrote:
> Jan Depner wrote:
> ...
> > I went into the code - here's the problem.  If you don't have at least
> > one file in the directory with id3 tags for artist and album it won't
> > use your cover pictures.  If you try to remove the covers in the cover
> > manager that you have downloaded (because you'd rather use your own
> > covers) it will delete YOUR cover files when it CAN find id3 tags with
> > artist and album.  I don't really want amarok deleting ANY of my files
> > so I'm a bit pissed off at the moment.  I was under the impression that
> 
> cover deletion was a feature gone wrong, and it should be fixed in 
> 1.4.5. which version do you have ?
> ...

    Now I have 1.4.5 (built from source) but it's too late ;-)  Oh well,
it wasn't that big of a deal anyway.  It appears that the cover manager
will try to match up covers using the directory name if there aren't any
id3 tags available.  It seems to me that it would be a good thing (TM)
if it were to check the folder first for a cover picture.  If there is a
cover picture there and there are no id3 tags then associate the cover
with the directory name instead of the artist and album.  I'm assuming
this could happen in collectiondb.cpp and wherever it snags that info
when playing.  But, I may be way off base here.

Jan


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