Album Art Not Working in 1.1.1!!

Hi fdfisher,

Many of the album art add-ons will not be updated (album art manager, discogs fetcher, Last.fm fetcher...) because they are no longer needed, and are built into the core of Songbird (or will be). You can try out the Amazon Fetcher for higher quality artwork, or in case last.fm didn't find any.

If you drag an image to the album art service pane it should write that artwork to the file, could you give me a little more info. on that... Where are you dragging the image from...

@steveo, boosh

First of all, thank you both for your quick response, and for working so hard on Songbird. I really appreciate it!

Yes, I do have the album art service pane toggled to show the album art of the song currently playing so that is not the problem. I have tried toggling back and forth between Now Playing and Now Selected and it makes no difference. That is not the problem.

The images I am dragging to the service pane are from a web page open in another tab, and all of the images I have tried dragging were .jpg's.

The media files I am using are .ogg vorbis and mp3's. I have not tested this problem with any other media types because I have no other media types on my computer. The album art fetcher also does not seem to be fetching art, whether it's fetching from last.fm or from Amazon. This is weird because with the beta 1 release, it would fetch from Last.FM and display this art, but would not fetch album art using the Amazon Fetcher Add-On; instead Songbird would crash. After the beta 2 or 3 was release, the Amazon Fetcher stopped crashing Songbird, and instead it would not display any art. I also tried downloading the album art and dragging it from the desktop to the service pane; no luck there either.

Other info: I'm using Sonbird x86 on Ubuntu 8.10. I tried deleting my library and re-scanning all the files. This did not work.

It seems like the problem is that the album art info is not getting written to the metadata. If I right click on the file and select "Edit Metadata," there is no album art metadata. I tried dragging the album art from my desktop to the "drag album art here" box in the "Edit Metadata" dialog window, and this did not work. However, if I click on the "Add" button and select the album art by browsing through my file system then it correctly adds the art and displays it in the service pane when the music is playing.

Hi, im not sure if this is the right place to put this problem, but here it goes: When i was using 1.0 I added a lot of album art manually to a lot of my albums, and i could see all the album art working well because it was displayed in Songbird 1.0. Now after i installed 1.1.1 most of it is not displayed any longer. Most of all the albums i added album art on during the last month is now just displayed as a gray disc =0(

So my question is:
Can i rely on songbird here in 1.1.1 that it will attach album art to the songs and also display the album art in future versions of songbird and other players?

Hi,

Just updated to 1.1.1 (on XP).
Everything was ok at first (album art correctly displayed both in the service panel and mediaflow), then I deleted the entire library and rebuild it.
Now all is well in the 1.1.1 world, except that no album art is displayed at all, nowhere.
FYI in my case one folder = one album, and I use the good ol' folder.jpg way to store album art.

I would welcome any hint on this one...

Hi there, me again.

Out of 4168 songs, only one has album art displayed.
...It's the only one with the jpg embedded in the id3 tag.

I nuked and rebuilt my library several times just to check : no luck, even with a single directory containing a mere 10 songs and one folder.jpg file.

By the way, fetching the covers from the net works perfectly well ; too bad songbird adds it to the tag without warning the user.

i've made one step closer to fixing Songbird showing albumarts by setting songbird.albumart.file.enabled to "true" in about:config and re-adding every music file in my library... HOWEVER Songbird will only show albumarts for the first and only the first track of every album from an image file named "cover" or "folder" (sorting my music in folders: Artist\AlbumA\folder.jpg , Artist\AlbumB\cover.jpg etc...).
Loading images from metadata works fine but personally i want to avoid that as it fills up unesecary diskspace and creates an additional image file in a hidden folder.

What keeps Songbird from showing albumarts for the rest of the tracks in every album? (loading from folder.jpg or cover.jpg)

(Windows Vista 64-bit)

Edit: it's not the first track it's the first music file in each album folder (sorted by name) that is correctly loading from cover.jpg or folder.jpg.

I second the previous message left by Tabbe.
I enabled songbird.albumart.files, same thing here : album art is displayed only for the first entry of each album in the library.

I would link this behavior with the physical directory structure : songbird associates only the first audio file (alphabetically sorted) in a given directory with the folder.jpg file.

Side effect in mediaflow : a two-disc album stored in a single directory will be displayed as two separate entries in mediaflow (thanks to "disc1" & "disc2" in the id3 title tag).

> "folder.jpg" is displayed for the first disc.
> the default grey cd is displayed for the second disc.

Any clue ?

I have a similar problem on Linux 64 bit Edition. Some of my album art displays (all my music is organised in folders by album and artist with the art in cover.jpg or folder.jpg in the folder). I've tried changing the names of the jpg and it makes no difference, some images display and some don't for no reason I can find.

I have Ubuntu 8.10 and Songbird 1.1.1. None of my album art is displayed. All of my music is AAC format. My album art shows up in EasyTag for Ubuntu, and iTunes, Zune, and TagScanner in Windows.

If anymore info is needed, i'd be glad to help.

Well, I was sort of overwhelmed/surprised by just how many people had the same problem as me.

@Steveo, Boosh

Is there something we can do to help get this problem fixed faster? Do you need us to file a bug report, need more info that we haven't given about what's happening? I want to make sure this gets fixed for the next release.

Reposted per Boosh's request

I cannot get anything to work when it comes to album art. I tried using folder.jpg with the about:config things set up. I tried to add the art to the meta data. I tried renaming them to cover.jpg. Everything I tried the best I could get was the first file in every folder worked fine but none of the rest of them

No matter what I try I cannot get album art to work anymore. it was fine in 1.0 but 1.1 broke it. the only way I can get album art now is to install the last.fm Album Art pane http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/...

still doesnt solve the problem and isnt perfect but its better than nothing.

2

Well I started out with folder.jpg that is how I had everything before when I used Foobar and it worked out. I switched to songbird and it recognized the folder.jpg in version 1.0 but when I upgraded to 1.1 it stopped.

I then used mp3tag to fix the metadata of all of my files and then used it to add the album art to the metadata. After I did this Songbird 1.1 would recognize the art but only for the first song in each folder and none of the rest. This seems consistant throughout my library.

I have yet to try and have songbird fetch the album art because the few times I tried the fetcher could never get the right artist and album.

I have recopied this post over to the requested thread.
Thanks

hello

Up to version 1.1.1 when an album was added to the library, Songbird automatically associated the artwork that was in the repertoire of the album.
All music is in the same directory, a scheme is better than a long speech.
/ music

/ Artists

/ album1

. album1.jpg
. titre1.ogg
...

/ album2

. album2.jpg
...

/ artisteB

..

/ * but I also the case * /
/ album42

. album42.jpg
....

But with version 1.1.1 the association is no longer with the first case (/ artist / album), the latter poses no problem.
To see if the problem was not the new albums, I erased my library and a "search for file multi-media."
And all the albums in the first case is without their kit.

Sorry for my English :/

Have a very similar problem...

I use WinXP SP3 w/ newest security updates. When I was playing an album, it stopped and SB freezes. When checking TaskMan, it showed SB uses 99% CPU time and 200MB RAM.
Confused I closed SB, but it was not to shut down, not even after 2min. I used TaskMan and stopped SB the rude method, because I wanted to restart the system and was short on time and pretty p****d.
After reboot, SB said at start "bla,bla...problems with library" WTF? Ok, have let SB rebuilt the library by re-reading the watched folder.
Now Album Art wont work at all. Nothing to see. I installed the Amazon Fetcher before, no effect. No Album at all - sad but true.
Then found this entry and tried several things out - no effect at all.

Album Art: No options, simply dead.
Amazon : No options, nothing

Have two entries in Console:

Error: SQLite compile step:
select distinct _mi.media_item_id, _mi.guid, '', _mi.rowid from media_items as _mi left join resource_properties as _p0 on (_p0.media_item_id = _mi.media_item_id and _p0.property_id = 2) join resource_properties as _p0 on _mi.media_item_id = _p0.media_item_id left join resource_properties as _sort1 on (_sort1.media_item_id = _mi.media_item_id and _sort1.property_id = 8) left join resource_properties as _sort2 on (_sort2.media_item_id = _mi.media_item_id and _sort2.property_id = 6) left join resource_properties as _sort3 on (_sort3.media_item_id = _mi.media_item_id and _sort3.property_id = 1) where _p0.obj_sortable is null and +_mi.media_list_type_id is null and _mi.hidden in ('0') and _p0.property_id = 5 and _p0.obj_sortable in ('medieval') order by _sort1.obj_sortable asc, _sort2.obj_sortable asc, _sort3.obj_sortable asc, _mi.media_item_id asc
caused the error
ambiguous column name: _p0.media_item_id

Those are happening again and again.

By now (5min after writing this far), Album Art works again and fine.....I am pretty confused....

Okay, so I'm on Ubuntu 8.10, got most my album art in the specific album folders with a name like folder.jpg, jpeg, gif, or cover.jpg, jpeg, gif.
I changed the preferences in about:config to
songbird.albumart.file.enabled true
songbird.albumart.file.priority 1

Removed and reloaded my library. No luck. I spent so much time on getting all my album art...I wish I saw it again...

Thanks for the wonderful Songbird though, in spite of this minor problem it is the best music player for Ubuntu, I think.

Disaster. The new songbird version f***ed my complete albumart.
I have albums in folders with a folder.jpg albumart.
After scanning for albumart, folder.jpg was ignored, some albumart was found and stored in the .mp3 - file. Unfortunately lots of "wrong" albumart got stored. What a mess. Does anybody knows a program to scan 800 folders and clean up / delete albumart from my files ?
Songbird was cool - but this is kind of "worst case" -

Any progress so far? Only way to get by this that i've found is to drag and drop each track individually into your library to make the album art show up for each track.

But that would take ages to do =/

The problem with me are the albums that are in a subdirectory

Songbird team, will this bug be fixed in the new release? Is there a way we can help see it get squashed sooner? (I'm looking for a suggestion that is not "submit your own patch")? 20 different people have now tagged this problem as one they have. I know 20 people is a microcosm of your users but not all of the people with this problem have bothered to log onto getsatisfaction and report it!

Hey fdfisher,

The issue with Songbird only recognizing album art for the first track in a folder has been fixed and will be in the next release. (Bug 15747) Stevo made that his number one priority.

Your issue with Album Art was a little broad (and big). From what it seams like, you have no album art showing up for you anywhere, which sucks, I believe it. I am sorry for your troubles...

Could you try:
1. Back up your hidden ".Songbird2" directory in your Ubuntu's home folder (if that is where you installed it) to somewhere safe.
2. Delete you installation of Songbird, (your .Songbird2 folder and everything)
3. Download and install the latest Nightly: http://developer.songbirdnest.com/bui...
4. With this fresh start and profile... Import your media again, and set your preferences with the AlbumArtPreferences add-on, then fetch some artwork...

Hopefully everything goes well! Report back if any issues are found, and this will help us get to the bottom of this!

Thank you Soo Much!! Again, Sorry for your troubles.

I followed the instructions but the problem remained.
I'm on the 1.2 beta 2

@ben51

Could you give me a detailed step-by-step description on how to reproduce your issue, and your setup.. I'm still a little confused on your setup based on earlier comments.. Sorry :(

Hello.

Sorry to have half the time to respond.
I tested under Windows XP and Linux (fedora) with songbird 1.2.
add-ons
AlbumArtPreferences
MediaFlow

In any case the cover are not seen


I saw that I could no longer edit the file ogg metas

@ben51

Ahh, I see. Well the main problem that you have right now is that writing metadata to .ogg files had to be disabled in Isan(1.2) (Bug 16595) Im Sorry :(

But the good news is that is coming back with full force in Jackson 5 (Bug 16161) So if you are daring [again] you can test out a 1.3.0a build (I'm really sorry you have to keep trying out nightlies) And some more good news about 1.3 is that it has the AlbumArtPreferences built right into the bird (no need to download the add-on)
If you do download 1.3, as always - back up your profile, and make a test copy of your music)

And one other problem that I see is that you have specific Album Art names in your folder, and that might be a little hard to put all the different names of your albums in the "Search file names" box of the AlbumArtPreferences.
And I don't believe you can put a asterisk (*) to accept all files names... This is mainly because there could be more than one image file in your folder - causing mass confusion (A lot of media players place hidden images in your folders to help themselves out for cache) Besides implementing an add-on to retrieve the name of the album and searching for {ALBUM NAME}.[image file] (which I think it would be pretty possible to do...) The other workaround would be to get an app, such as Bulk Rename Utility, and changing all your album art named files to 'folder' or 'cover' file names: If you do do that, I made a pic to help you out: (PIC)

I tested with 1.3.0a build 1152.
If I put the album name in "Search file names" box of the AlbumArtPreferences it works.
But is it possible to run AlbumArtPreferences as on the previous version 1.1?

Otherwise tag editing does not work on this version (still empty and no change is made)