2015-01-20, 00:31
Hello
I've got a bit of a problem with fanart not being overwritten.
I have a pretty large music collection, 35k+ tracks, many of which are pretty obscure blues and world music performers that no scraper is ever going to pick up. For this reason I've always tended to use my own fanart, I've been doing it a long time and I know what I'm about.
Today I found an image I wanted to use, put it in the requisite folder, pointed artist information at it, and it's duly displayed. But it was very blurred, despite being a pretty high res pic, so I found another to replace it and repeated the procedure, except that it wouldn't overwrite, despite the original image no longer being on the system. When I drill down through artist information to the image in question, it's still the old one, even though the new one is now in the artist's folder on my server. This has happened a couple of times, yet when I tried to do something similar with another file it worked perfectly.
Something that may have a bearing is that the artist in question is on a compilation CD. I've created a folder to contain the artwork so the path is:
NAS server/Music/iTunes/compilations/The Classic Experience/Academy of St Martins in the Field/fanart.jpg. In this case fanart.jpg is the new picture that I want to use.
But if the problem was it being a compilation why did it find and show the fanart in the first place?
The alteration that worked perfectly was a named artist in her own stand alone folder, rather than a compilation.
I've tried rebooting, both the XIOS box and the NAS server, no difference.
So I'm rather mystified. I've checked time and again to see if I've accidently changed a setting but cannot find one if I have, and in any case this isn't anything that I haven't done many times before. I use Transparency! but have tried it out with Confluence with exactly the same result, so I don't think that it's a skin issue.
Set up is:
Linux XIOS box running Helix
Transparency!
Library on NAS server
Expert settings
I'm perfectly prepared to be told that I'm doing something so obviously wrong that only a complete idiot could have managed it, it'd be a small price to pay to get this sorted. Obviously I've had a trawl around the various forums trying to find an answer, but nothing that exactly matches this issue, so any help, comments or similar will be gratefully received.
I've got a bit of a problem with fanart not being overwritten.
I have a pretty large music collection, 35k+ tracks, many of which are pretty obscure blues and world music performers that no scraper is ever going to pick up. For this reason I've always tended to use my own fanart, I've been doing it a long time and I know what I'm about.
Today I found an image I wanted to use, put it in the requisite folder, pointed artist information at it, and it's duly displayed. But it was very blurred, despite being a pretty high res pic, so I found another to replace it and repeated the procedure, except that it wouldn't overwrite, despite the original image no longer being on the system. When I drill down through artist information to the image in question, it's still the old one, even though the new one is now in the artist's folder on my server. This has happened a couple of times, yet when I tried to do something similar with another file it worked perfectly.
Something that may have a bearing is that the artist in question is on a compilation CD. I've created a folder to contain the artwork so the path is:
NAS server/Music/iTunes/compilations/The Classic Experience/Academy of St Martins in the Field/fanart.jpg. In this case fanart.jpg is the new picture that I want to use.
But if the problem was it being a compilation why did it find and show the fanart in the first place?
The alteration that worked perfectly was a named artist in her own stand alone folder, rather than a compilation.
I've tried rebooting, both the XIOS box and the NAS server, no difference.
So I'm rather mystified. I've checked time and again to see if I've accidently changed a setting but cannot find one if I have, and in any case this isn't anything that I haven't done many times before. I use Transparency! but have tried it out with Confluence with exactly the same result, so I don't think that it's a skin issue.
Set up is:
Linux XIOS box running Helix
Transparency!
Library on NAS server
Expert settings
I'm perfectly prepared to be told that I'm doing something so obviously wrong that only a complete idiot could have managed it, it'd be a small price to pay to get this sorted. Obviously I've had a trawl around the various forums trying to find an answer, but nothing that exactly matches this issue, so any help, comments or similar will be gratefully received.