Re: [Banshee-List] The album covers arent saved =/

["Michael.S.G." <OzFalcon bden org>]

Yes. But also, What happens when it downloads the wrong cover art?
(As it is prone to doing - Depending on Album name)
Some sort of manual intervention is needed as well.

KR
Oz

Leonard Gonzalez wrote:
> In my opinion it should write the data to the files but ONLY the ones 
> with missing covers not replace the existing covers
>
> 2010/4/5 Michael.S.G. <OzFalcon bden org <mailto:OzFalcon bden org>>
>
>     As Michael said, It gets saved into the /home/.cache/media-art folder.
>
>     IMHO
>     The best way to handle Album art is the way it's done now.
>     (Finds art in the Album folder (or downloads if needed). Then
>     stores it  in the cache folder for viewing in banshee)
>     What is "possibly" needed is some function to move/rename these
>     "Downloaded" cache files to their respective Album folders.
>
>     Writing images to the .mp3 metadata would be a disaster for me*.
>     So it must be as an option. And besides - I make a point of
>     removing ALL images from ALL my mp3's. It just makes bloated,
>     messy mp3's - Not to mention the waste of having the same image
>     duplicated in each song of the album.
>
>     * Disaster - ie. Wouldn't work for me.
>     I have a Jukebox setup that ONLY boots into Banshee and my music
>     library is accessed via a read only server so no one can
>     delete/damage by accident.
>
>     KR
>     Oz
>
>
>     Leonard Gonzalez wrote:
>
>         what program do you recommend to automatically download album
>         covers? amarok downloads the covers too but i believe it DOES
>         NOT save them to the files either =/
>
>         2010/4/5 Michael Martin-Smucker <mlmartin13 gmail com
>         <mailto:mlmartin13 gmail com> <mailto:mlmartin13 gmail com
>         <mailto:mlmartin13 gmail com>>>
>
>
>            There's plenty of metadata other than cover art that *does* get
>            written to the file when that box is checked.  Any changes you
>            make to a track's tags (like Artist, Album, etc) get written to
>            the file if you have the 'Write Metadata to Files' option
>         checked.
>             Unfortunately, cover art isn't (yet) included as something
>         that
>            gets saved to the track's metadata.  Currently, Banshee
>         just saves
>            the cover art in ~/.cache (inside a folder called media-art, I
>            think).  The bug report that Alexander linked to is a good
>         place
>            to go if you want to follow this feature's progress or
>         contribute
>            a patch (or bribe a developer to write a patch).
>
>
>            On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Leonard Gonzalez
>            <leonardgonzalez88 gmail com
>         <mailto:leonardgonzalez88 gmail com>
>         <mailto:leonardgonzalez88 gmail com
>         <mailto:leonardgonzalez88 gmail com>>>
>
>            wrote:
>
>                So what good is it for? its just a gimmick then =/
>
>                2010/4/5 Alexander Kojevnikov <alexander kojevnikov com
>         <mailto:alexander kojevnikov com>
>                <mailto:alexander kojevnikov com
>         <mailto:alexander kojevnikov com>>>
>
>
>                    On 5 April 2010 15:49, Leonard Gonzalez
>                    <leonardgonzalez88 gmail com
>         <mailto:leonardgonzalez88 gmail com>
>                    <mailto:leonardgonzalez88 gmail com
>         <mailto:leonardgonzalez88 gmail com>>> wrote:
>                    > Banshee finds the cover to my mp3 files but it
>         DOES NOT
>                    save them, when i
>                    > play the same tracks on rhythmbox the covers are GONE
>                    and yes in preferences
>                    > i checked "write metadata to files" . Anyone else
>         having
>                    this problem?
>
>                    Saving album art in metadata is not yet
>         implemented, see
>                    bgo#600885:
>                    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600885
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