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Slate8 replied on August 21, 2008 15:38 to the problem "Album art not displaying in 0.7.0 Beta" in Songbird:

Hey ashughes, I've had a bit more of a play around and can re-create this reliably with certain tracks. If it helps the developer I can send them an mp3 that displays album art and one that doesn't.

The fact that it seems to be the same files over and over again would suggest it is to do with the way I've tagged them. However, these same files displayed art correctly in the recent release candidates and in Amarok etc.

Thanks for your help so far :)

Slate8 replied on August 21, 2008 15:15 to the problem "Album art not displaying in 0.7.0 Beta" in Songbird:

Hmm, this is getting a bit random... So I re-installed Songbird by downloading a fresh copy and deleting the .songbird2 folder again. The first run wizard ran, it scanned for media etc, all good.

I did a random spot check by playing about 100 tracks randomly but only about half of them displayed the album art.

My collection is meticulously tagged using Tag & Rename (a windows app) and everything has artwork embedded. I'm going to dig around a bit more to see if I can find some sort of pattern but there does seem to be something fishy going on.

Anyone else getting this or is it something to do with my setup?

Slate8 replied on August 21, 2008 14:42 to the problem "Album art not displaying in 0.7.0 Beta" in Songbird:

I can not install the addon as the install button is greyed out.
Will remove and re-install songbird and try again... thanks for the info ashughes, I must have done something silly...

Slate8 replied on August 21, 2008 12:31 to the problem "no art cover fetching working" in Songbird:

Are you getting the same issue I describe on my topic at http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t... ?

Slate8 reported a problem in Songbird on August 21, 2008 10:50:

Album art not displaying in 0.7.0 Beta

I am using the new 0.7.0 beta on Ubuntu 8.04 32bit and the new built in album art pane is not displaying album art from the id3 tags. I have tried playing numerous files which have album art embedded in the id3 tags but I just get the standard CD image for when there is no artwork.

When I installed Songbird I deleted the .songbird2 folder from my home directory and only installed the recommended add-ons from the first run wizard.

This used to work fine in the release candidates.

Am I missing something?

Slate8 started following the question "Ratings are not saved to the files?" in Songbird.

Slate8 replied on August 15, 2008 12:42 to the problem "Songbird 0.7RC2 hangs completly my system." in Songbird:

Oh... BTW, I don't get any of the hangs you mention. I have been using 0.7.0rc2, 0.7.0rc3 recently.

Slate8 replied on August 15, 2008 12:41 to the problem "Songbird 0.7RC2 hangs completly my system." in Songbird:

Thanks - looks like that did the trick... I now get the new startup wizard and everything. Smooth.

Slate8 replied on August 15, 2008 12:36 to the problem "Songbird 0.7RC2 hangs completly my system." in Songbird:

Just out of interest, how do I Nuke a profile? I am on Hardy as well and would like to remove all traces of Sonbgird before trying new release candidates etc... is there a guide anywhere on how to do this?

Thanks

Slate8 replied on August 13, 2008 11:48 to the idea "A possible way to speed up the library search responsiveness?" in Songbird:

Thanks for the reply Boris - I have signed up to bugzilla and added myself to the CC list.

Slate8 started following the idea "Clearing album art" in Songbird.

Slate8 shared an idea in Songbird on August 12, 2008 09:01:

A possible way to speed up the library search responsiveness?

Just trying 0.7.0rc2 and notice that the library search is much better but it does seem to cause the app to freeze up every now and then.

Freezes seem to occur when searching for three or less characters. For example, if I quickly type in "Bob Marley" then the results come back fast. If I just enter "Bob" then I get 100% CPU usage and Songbird freezes for anything up to a minute.

Could the search only take place for 4 or more characters or would that limit people too much?

Also, I have noticed that the library search also searches the comments field in the ID3 tags - does this slow things down somewhat? Would it not make more sense just to search on Title, Artist, Album, Genre, Year and File Name?

Just some ideas... loving RC2 :)

Slate8 replied on August 09, 2008 13:08 to the discussion "Why was watch-folders punted for the next release of Songbird?" in Songbird:

Kind of like "Kicked" - http://dictionary.reference.com/brows...

Slate8 started a conversation in Songbird on August 07, 2008 13:56:

Songbird really came together on the last nighly IMHO

Is it just me or has songbird really come together on the latest nightly build? I am using the 2008080601 build for linux and there are a number of things that I've noticed which make a HUGE difference.

Searching seems to be a lot faster when in the library. I still get the odd 100% CPU usage and lockup for a few seconds but most of the time the results are returned instantly! Nice!

The album art pain is now part of the native songbird install it would seem. I installed the latest nightly of the album art manager addon and did a scan. It read ALL the album artwork from my ID3 (meta data) tags for my 14,000 and something tracks. Hoorah!
Double clicking on the album art pain when a track is playing opens the original sized cover in a new window - great!

I open a browser tab and start an internet radio stream from nuskoolbreaks.co.uk - no waiting for buffering or lockups, the stream just starts, fast!

I have done all the above a number of times and this build seems solid. It's even using less memory than Firefox3 for the first time ever. Sweet!

Developers, you must have done a hell of a lot of work recently... this awesome app is really coming together. Well done!

Slate8 replied on August 06, 2008 15:40 to the idea "Bravo - Hats of to you!" in Songbird:

Yes, big love to all songbirdians :)

Slate8 replied on August 05, 2008 10:46 to the question "Why can't you drag and drop images into Album Art Manager?" in Songbird:

Yeah, been keeping and eye on it in the public svn log and there has been a great deal done recently... the latest nightly build of the album art manager rocks so I'm sure there are all sorts of good things in store.

Slate8 replied on August 05, 2008 09:54 to the question "Why can't you drag and drop images into Album Art Manager?" in Songbird:

Just wanted to add that I love this idea :)

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Slate8 replied on July 29, 2008 16:24 to the discussion "Songbird...definitely on the right track!" in Songbird:

hear hear

A comment on the question "Uploading Album Art ?" in Songbird:

Hooray hooray, that is good news... Would love to see this in a release at some point. – Slate8, on July 23, 2008 11:18