2014-06-08, 23:53
This is a general non-Windows specific problem, but the general forum said I did not have permission to post there so posting in the Windows forum since that's what my server is running on.
I'm using XBMC as a UPnP server and having issues getting it to serve up local album art over UPnP. Album art displays properly for every album in the XBMC local interface, but not over UPnP. The Artist fan art works perfectly and gets thumbnails for every artist, but only half my albums show up with cover art. From what I can tell, XBMC's UPnP server will only serve up album art that originated from the Universal Scraper and not from my cover.jpg, folder.jpg, or embedded art and the scrapers can't find all my albums.
I have a well organized collection in artist\album subfolders with embedded art in every file and a matching cover.jpg in every album's folder and have already tried editing advancedsettings.xml to use cover.jpg and not folder.jpg (in all possible capitalizations) as well as just making a copy of cover.jpg and naming it folder.jpg. It works in every other free UPnP server software I've tried with no extra configuration, except XBMC. Those other softwares lack the Artist fan art and some other features in XBMC's UPnP server that I would like to use, so I'd really like to find a solution to this if possible. I've spent over a week trying to make it work in either Frodo or Gotham on both Windows and Ubuntu to no success.
tl;dr
I want to make XBMC's UPnP server serve up my music collection with it's local embedded or cover.jpg album art showing up when I browse and play music. Why does it not do this automatically and how can I force it to do so?
edit: System info..
Win7 Pro x64 up to date, 4GB RAM (Ubuntu 14.04 x64 8GB RAM has same behavior), XBMC 12.3 (13.1 has same behavior)
UPnP Browser/Renderer is BubbleUPnP on Android 4.3
Edit: Issue also happens when rendering from XBMC UPnP server to XBMC as a UPnP renderer -> no cover art is displayed even though it's embedded in the MP3 itself. Seems like this is probably a bug in the UPnP server part of XBMC.
I'm using XBMC as a UPnP server and having issues getting it to serve up local album art over UPnP. Album art displays properly for every album in the XBMC local interface, but not over UPnP. The Artist fan art works perfectly and gets thumbnails for every artist, but only half my albums show up with cover art. From what I can tell, XBMC's UPnP server will only serve up album art that originated from the Universal Scraper and not from my cover.jpg, folder.jpg, or embedded art and the scrapers can't find all my albums.
I have a well organized collection in artist\album subfolders with embedded art in every file and a matching cover.jpg in every album's folder and have already tried editing advancedsettings.xml to use cover.jpg and not folder.jpg (in all possible capitalizations) as well as just making a copy of cover.jpg and naming it folder.jpg. It works in every other free UPnP server software I've tried with no extra configuration, except XBMC. Those other softwares lack the Artist fan art and some other features in XBMC's UPnP server that I would like to use, so I'd really like to find a solution to this if possible. I've spent over a week trying to make it work in either Frodo or Gotham on both Windows and Ubuntu to no success.
tl;dr
I want to make XBMC's UPnP server serve up my music collection with it's local embedded or cover.jpg album art showing up when I browse and play music. Why does it not do this automatically and how can I force it to do so?
edit: System info..
Win7 Pro x64 up to date, 4GB RAM (Ubuntu 14.04 x64 8GB RAM has same behavior), XBMC 12.3 (13.1 has same behavior)
UPnP Browser/Renderer is BubbleUPnP on Android 4.3
Edit: Issue also happens when rendering from XBMC UPnP server to XBMC as a UPnP renderer -> no cover art is displayed even though it's embedded in the MP3 itself. Seems like this is probably a bug in the UPnP server part of XBMC.