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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