Album covers

[Mark Fraser]

On Tuesday 09 Mar 2010 04:37:21 Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Mark Fraser <kde at mfraz.orangehome.co.uk> 
wrote:
> > I've seem to have got in quite a mess trying to sort out my collection of
> > album covers in Amarok 2.2.2 to the point that the cover will appear in
> > the play list until it starts playing when it will vanish.
> >
> > How can I get back to a working system, do I just need to delete the
> > cache folder?
> 
> Hey Mark, I was having lots of problems with album covers in 2.2.2
> also. One thing that helped was installing the script CopyCover2,
> which saves a copy of the found album cover to the album folder in
> your collection.

I've installed CopyCover2 which works apart from it insisting on thinking all 
images are jpegs and putting the jpg extension on even if they're pngs.

> I can give you the good news that 2.3 will have improved album cover
> handling. I now run Amarok fresh from git (source), and more and more
> correct covers are showing up. The search function is improving too,
> although there is still not perfection.

I've looked at using the Kubuntu beta PPA, but not sure about all the stuff it 
wants to install.