2021-08-04, 02:14
In my music collection, for the cover art / front cover, I use a filename different from kodi's default. I use: "cover.front.jpg"
For ages, in every kodi build, I would just add this to advancedsettings.xml,
And my music could be imported, artwork included.
This is documented here: https://kodi.wiki/view/Advancedsettings.xml#musicthumbs
In a fresh install of kodi 19.1 this no longer works, I can see in kodi.log that the advancesettings.xml content is read without errors, I can see the musicthumbs tag in the log, however the cover files of the format cover.front.jpg are ignored.
After troubleshooting, I found that if I manually browse to Kodi's settings (Media > Music) then I can now see the list of filenames that Kodi looks for by default and I noticed immediately that the one that I added via advancedsettings.xml is NOT in that list. After manually adding it and rescanning the folder, now the artwork is found and displayed.
If any dev is around here, I wonder - did matrix disable the advancedsettings tag parsing since now this setting is accessible in the GUI? and they forgot to update the advancesettings wiki/documentation? I can report a bug in github if this behavior wasn't intended
For ages, in every kodi build, I would just add this to advancedsettings.xml,
xml:<musicthumbs>
<remove>folder.jpg</remove>
<add>cover.front.jpg</add>
</musicthumbs>
And my music could be imported, artwork included.
This is documented here: https://kodi.wiki/view/Advancedsettings.xml#musicthumbs
In a fresh install of kodi 19.1 this no longer works, I can see in kodi.log that the advancesettings.xml content is read without errors, I can see the musicthumbs tag in the log, however the cover files of the format cover.front.jpg are ignored.
After troubleshooting, I found that if I manually browse to Kodi's settings (Media > Music) then I can now see the list of filenames that Kodi looks for by default and I noticed immediately that the one that I added via advancedsettings.xml is NOT in that list. After manually adding it and rescanning the folder, now the artwork is found and displayed.
If any dev is around here, I wonder - did matrix disable the advancedsettings tag parsing since now this setting is accessible in the GUI? and they forgot to update the advancesettings wiki/documentation? I can report a bug in github if this behavior wasn't intended