[Milhouse]

ok, I opened my db in SQLite browser and almost all urls are encoded. My album art is mostly embedded in music files and I noticed that URL entries for these were encoded like this: image://music@smb%3a%2f%2fNAS%2fMusic%2fThe%20Beatles%2fHelp!%2f01%20Help!.mp3/

Whereas any image files like .jpg had URL entries with no encoding like this:

smb://NAS/Music/Elton John/The One/Folder.jpg

Hope this helps.

Ah right, yes, that's an "embedded" artwork item (music@, video@), and it's true that their urls are stored in an encoded form (why? no idea, for the sake of consistency they shouldn't be). However it's not possible for texturecache.py to pre-load the cache with such items so after you've deleted such an item you won't be able to re-cache it - you need to browse the GUI in order for the image to be extracted from the media item.

As you can see, with some urls encoded and the vast majority not, encoding the search url will make the situation worse - the correct solution is for urls to always be stored unencoded (will mention it to jmarsall).