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First of all, sorry, this is my first time in a forum. I've looked everywhere I could think for help
Hello, I have a problem with my music album artwork. It is consistently caching as 200x200 when the source of all my music is 900x900
I've tried using <imageres>900</imageres> in advancedsettings.xml multiple times and even did a complete reinstall of kodi, but the problem persists.
Artwork at this size doesn't look good on my television.
I am running windows 10 64bit and kodi 17.3 with the skin aeon nox installed. Please help, thank you.
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Some questions:
Is you album art embedded in the music files, or a separate file in the album folder?
How do you know it is 200x200?
Do you experience the same problem if you switch skin to Estuary or Confluence?
But I will admit artwork is not my strong point, so I may have missed something obvous.
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As far as I remember, kodi caching system is a little bit weird:
-all resolution settings assume a 16:9 A/R artwork
-caching is made by default with 720 height MAX except for fanart that use 1080 height MAX
That would need to be check in the wiki, but if I'm right there is no chance your artworks have been cached in 200*200
It should have been cached like mine in 720*720
About <imageres> , maybe it's not working anymore...
Only someone from the team could confirm that
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Thanks for the replies.
-My artwork is embedded in the music.
-I know it is 200x200 because I've looked at the cached images C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata\Thumbnails.
-Yes the problem persists even on estuary. I don't see confluence anymore so I can't check.
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Are you sure that the software you use to embed the artwork did not reduce it to 200*200?
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Yes, the software I use is called dbpoweramp. It allows me to view the embedded artwork and also states that it is indeed 900x900.
I can't seem to upload the image of dbpoweramp.
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I really have no idea why this would happen.
BTW for reference Confluence is available from the official repo, but confirming the apperence with Estuary is sufficient.
Yes as far as I can see <imageres> setting is still used by the texturreCacheJob, 720 x 720 by default.
In testing cached thumbs come out at all different sizes.
I still have to wonder about the tagging as the source of the issue. Perhaps PM me a link to an example music file? Or at least look at the file with Mp3tag.
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I'm not really sure how to pm you a link to my music. If you could guide me? My apologies, again I've never asked in a forum before.
Also, could you give me the exact filled setting or, maybe your advancedsettings.xml? Perhaps I've simply been missing something.
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Is there a way to directly upload an image? I have a screenshot of dbpoweramp showing metadata for a single file.
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I do have some music that has no copyright. It states on the games webpage that users are free to use it.
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maby kodi did not use your local/embedded file, and download some low res cover
i checkt my thumb folder, lots of my cd covers are 1000*1000, and they are all 720*720 in the thumb folder