Make artwork collection easy

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stinx

• November 23, 2023 14:52

The song and dance I've been going through:

1. Scroll through albums and realize some artwork is missing or too large
2. Go to musicbrainz or bandcamp and get replacement
3. Place replacement in the album directory
4. Hit reload artwork, restart client, art not there
5. Hit reindex under settings, restart client, art not there
6. Hit reindex under diagnostics, restart client, art appears

What I want:

1. Reload artwork goes to musicbrainz and grabs what is needed for anything missing
2. Tells me if it couldn't find a match

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  Tony W.

  Product Support Manager

  • November 23, 2023 16:44

  Hi Stinx

  BluOS is a music playback system and has no metadata lookup functions. There are great products that do that already... 

  The functionality you want is already in a great third-party product called Bliss. Check out www.blisshq.com 
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  stinx

  • November 23, 2023 16:46

  OK, fair enough.  But could you at least make it so I don't need a diagnostic-level reindex to pick up the corrected artwork?

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  Tony W.

  Product Support Manager

  • November 23, 2023 16:49

  Unfortunately no - a re-index is a quick fix (it does not remove deleted files for example). It looks for modified meta files. I you are using cover.jpg or folder.jpg - the file is skipped by design to quickly add new music. Anytime you adjust meta, you want a full rebuild.

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  stinx

  • December 03, 2023 13:15
  • Edited

  Just to follow up for anyone else who comes across this, I was able to resolve by adjusting my workflow. I set up Picard to scan and cluster everything and move it into my library. So now my process is download, unzip, drag folder into Picard, hit save. I have not had any problems since.

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