2013-06-11, 13:35
Hi everybody. New guy here, and have been recently thrusted into the HTPC world, loving every minute of it. XBMC is a terrific little piece of software.
I'll get down to business.
I have searched the forums with no answers that have been able to help me.
All of my music is organized. Well, I thought it was. I have been a Winamp lover for a long time, and have always made an effort to keep my Music library very organized. I keep all the music metadata up to date, keep every band in their own folder, and strive to have cover art FOR EVERY ALBUM. Oh yeah, there are over 30,000 songs in my playlist.
But I have always been under the impression that cover.jpg was the ideal way to save album art. In, fact I have even gone to lengths of removing imbedded artwork with software like MP3Tag so I can display high res album art during playback.
THE ISSUE:
The problem is, XBMC is currently only showing imbedded stuff. (my organization is not perfect, some folders have imbedded, some have cover.jpg, while some might have folder.jpg)
I have tried this line of code per the wiki in the following path: G:\Avisioncame\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata advancedsettings.xml
<advancedsettings>
<musicthumbs>
<add>cover.jpg</add>
</musicthumbs>
</advancedsettings>
Notice I didn't write <remove>folder.jpg</remove> because I want to keep folder.jpg.
I don't really care WHAT album art displays at this point, as long as SOMETHING is being displayed.
I am using the latest FRODO stable build
Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
Thank you all in advanced and I will try to keep posted with my updates.
EDIT: I should also note, Scrapers are pretty much out of the question as a solution. I listen to some very obscure stuff and I doubt they would pick it up.
SECOND EDIT:
I may have found the problem I am having. Because I am viewing the music in File view, it is only showing the root folders. For example I might have a Green Day folder, and inside that like 5 more folders for each album, and then cover art inside that.
It looks like my solution is to reorganize ALL of my collection into folders for each individual album, unless there is a known way to replace generic placeholder art.
I'll get down to business.
I have searched the forums with no answers that have been able to help me.
All of my music is organized. Well, I thought it was. I have been a Winamp lover for a long time, and have always made an effort to keep my Music library very organized. I keep all the music metadata up to date, keep every band in their own folder, and strive to have cover art FOR EVERY ALBUM. Oh yeah, there are over 30,000 songs in my playlist.
But I have always been under the impression that cover.jpg was the ideal way to save album art. In, fact I have even gone to lengths of removing imbedded artwork with software like MP3Tag so I can display high res album art during playback.
THE ISSUE:
The problem is, XBMC is currently only showing imbedded stuff. (my organization is not perfect, some folders have imbedded, some have cover.jpg, while some might have folder.jpg)
I have tried this line of code per the wiki in the following path: G:\Avisioncame\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata advancedsettings.xml
<advancedsettings>
<musicthumbs>
<add>cover.jpg</add>
</musicthumbs>
</advancedsettings>
Notice I didn't write <remove>folder.jpg</remove> because I want to keep folder.jpg.
I don't really care WHAT album art displays at this point, as long as SOMETHING is being displayed.
I am using the latest FRODO stable build
Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
Thank you all in advanced and I will try to keep posted with my updates.
EDIT: I should also note, Scrapers are pretty much out of the question as a solution. I listen to some very obscure stuff and I doubt they would pick it up.
SECOND EDIT:
I may have found the problem I am having. Because I am viewing the music in File view, it is only showing the root folders. For example I might have a Green Day folder, and inside that like 5 more folders for each album, and then cover art inside that.
It looks like my solution is to reorganize ALL of my collection into folders for each individual album, unless there is a known way to replace generic placeholder art.