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I have successfully git my NODE up and working and it is great. But there is no album artwork. I'm streaming from a synology NAS successfully . The cd's were ripped and copied into the NAS as ALAC files. I note there is no cover.jpg file present in each album folder. Is this the problem? If I manually add a cover.jpg file it worked on only one of three albums i tried, despite a re-index and restart of the Bluesound app. It will also take a long time to make all of the cover'jpg artworks. Is there a qjuicker way that I have missed? Its verybeasy to do in itunes , for example!
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Ive embeddeed a cover.jpg image of the artwork in each of three different files and done an index rebuild. It has only worked on the first album. I then tried Bliss, but was unable to select the NAS drive as it was not selectable in the displayed tree or by navigating . Only music stored on my mac could be seen. Which is not a lot , hence the NAS! Frustrated as album art is an important part of browsing! Any further suggestions?
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Bliss cannot navigate to the NAS. That is the problem. i can see the NAS using Finder as that is easy!
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ive managed to install the bliss app directly into my NAS and running oit from there. Seems to be working albeit slowly and have purchaed another 250 fixes which should do my collection nicely (I'm really a long term vinyl user!) Thanks for your interest and help!
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Thanks for purchasing Neil - if you have any further questions just ask (I'm the lead developer of bliss)!
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Hello, I have exactly the issues that Neil Coates has. I have been trying to get my album artwork in shape for over a year now. I am playing stored FLAC and MP3 files from a NAS. I have tried embedding artwork into the files themselves (using Yate), I have tried including a poster.jpg and folder.jpg file. I have confirmed that they are jpg files, less than 600k -- most are under 50k. I reindex music collection and only about 60% of the time is it successful. This leaves a lot of albums without artwork. What is preventing me from doing a thorough job? Most frustrating.
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Dan Gravell - Bliss looks wonderful! Had I not already paid for the full version of Yate I would give it a try.
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Seppi Evans - thanks for the suggestions. Alas, I have just tried them, and nothing new has resulted. I made sure that several of the artless folders have a cover.jpg file in them, and then did a complete reindex as you have described. But still those artworks fail to appear. Is there something else I can try?
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So basically the answer is to make an entirely new copy of the albums and re-import them back into Blusound? Will I have to so this for each problem album? That is about 200 albums for me at this point.
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When you say "Remove the music share you are using." does that mean to take the whole NAS out of the library? Or to eject the library? Sorry, not clear on what that means.
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Wait, hold the phone! I just figured out a much simpler solution. For problem albums for which the artwork stubbornly refuses to be indexed:
- Rename the folder of the album on the server - maybe just add a letter to it
- Use a tag editor to change the name of the album for all album tracks - again, maybe just add a letter
- Settings -> Music Library -> Reindex
It works!
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Jim
3 should be Help, Diagnostics, Rebuild Index in which case, steps 1 and 2 shouldn't be required.
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Thanks Tony, but bewildering to me, Rebuild Index does not work for me to restore missing artwork. I have no idea why this is. It seems that tricking Bluesound into thinking it's reindexing a new album is the only way to get some artwork to display.
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I'm guessing there's some sort of cache that isn't being invalidated...
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Hallo to all,
I have added a bunch of CDs to my NAS on Monday and run into a similar problem. All Album Art is working except for one CD.
I embed artwork to every track using MacOS Music, watching the size (< 600kb) and pixel size (<601x601). There has never been a problem, but this piece of Artwork will not appear.
The jpeg is an own scan, as I normally do when I cannot find it elsewhere. I have been reindexing again and again (full reindex), with the optimize artwork option on, with and without a cover.jpg in the folder, reloading artwork, removing the artwork and reassigning it with a tag editor (Bliss, which I have installed on my NAS, and others) but nothing seems to work for this Album. Bliss has shown the Artwork and has not discovered any inconsistencies.
So far, there always has been a (good) reason when the artwork wasn’t showing up, but this time it is different or at least I could not find the reason.
Today, I will remove the Album completely and restart recording it from scratch. Will let you know if I was successful 😃.
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Hallo again,
Yes indeed, deleting all information for the CD from NAS and restarting with importing from CD solved the issue. One regular re-index, and the artwork was visible for every track, the album remaining black. Only after closing and reopening the Controller, the artwork became visible for the album.
So I suppose there was an error when the files were created that BlueSound could not deal with, while other apps could.
By the way, the "Reload Artwork" button does not seem to work in the MacOS Controller 3.20.5. I either close and reopen the app or I use IOS to do the refresh.
I am very happy now, even though, it took a bit more than a day to get things right.
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Deleting and rebuilding the whole database to add one value to one record seems ... questionable. A software engineer proposing such a scheme wouldn't last long.
Surely bluesound can do better?
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After literally years of trying everything suggested to me, and still encountering mixed results, I think Dan Gravell's comment about not invalidating a cache above must be correct. I can't think of any other reason why Blusound would be clinging onto otherwise deleted information. As I said above, the only sure fire way for me to get artwork to correctly display is to (a) Do it right the first time, or (b) copy all the album files into a folders with a different name, and tag them with a different album name and band name -- and delete the original. Then a reindex can be tricked into thinking it's indexing a new album.
Since this is extremely time consuming, I really wish there were an easier way!
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I had a similar problem with m3u playlists. If a >Diagnostics> Rebuild Index doesn't produce the result, try a >Diagnostics>Reboot followed by a Rebuild Index. In my case this solved the issue. It probably takes care of the rogue cache.
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