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- adelias - 2010-12-24

lzoubek Wrote:It does not work for you, because you do not have an *.jpg file in the same directory as music files. You have always subidr 'Artwork'. In fact I should look into subdirs to search for image. Then it would work for you.

Thanks for testing

Actually there is a folder.jpg file there, as is the case with all of my album directories. My mpd music directory is /mnt/Music which is a nfs mount point for my NAS. The full path to the album art is /mnt/Music/[Category]/[Artist]/[Album]/folder.jpg

- Balthazaar - 2010-12-25

lzoubek Wrote:Same for you. You do not have any image for example in /media/Yggdrasil/Stereo/OSI/Blood.

Ah, but I do. In this case it is /media/Yggdrasil/Stereo/OSI/Blood/Blood_Cover.jpg


lzoubek Wrote:Yes, you are right. I forgot about it. This setting is profile-related and should be defined per profile. I am not sure, how to deal with it. I don't want the setting 'Fetch album art' to be per profile but at the same time there is per-profile setting, which visibility depends on global setting. Any ideas?

Thinking...

lzoubek Wrote:Thanks for testing too. I've implemented local fetching as response to tellmo's request. It is not useful for me, since my MPD server is far away from me. At least I've tried how to implement conditional visibility in settings.

Yes, I probably won't use it either, but I'm happy to test for others. The Allmusic setting works well, but it is dependent on the tags I guess. For example, fetching of OSI covers does not work, but fetching of others eg Pink Floyd and Porcupine Tree worked. Must be the way I tag?


lzoubek Wrote:btw.. if you use 2 MPD servers with different databases, why don't you share music among both?

Ah. Good question. One serves mulitchannel and/or high resolution audio, the other serves stereo 16/44 (CD quality). Each has it's own separate ALSA output. One provides correct channel mapping for the multichannel hi-rez, and the other routes the stereo to front and rear speakers for a faux quadraphonic surround sound. This 'Stereo' one also plays the internet radio streams. I don't enjoy listening to straight 2ch anymore - it sounds a bit 'flat' to me.

I could probably get one mpd server do the lot using a pipe output and a 3rd party app to do some formatting, but that adds a conversion step that I'd rather not have.

- Balthazaar - 2010-12-25

lzoubek Wrote:Yes, you are right. I forgot about it. This setting is profile-related and should be defined per profile. I am not sure, how to deal with it. I don't want the setting 'Fetch album art' to be per profile but at the same time there is per-profile setting, which visibility depends on global setting. Any ideas?

Would it be possible to parse the currently playing track source directory as the album art location?
Global settings for artwork would work even for me. Smile

- lzoubek - 2010-12-26

guys, could you try to pull and test local fetcher again? If it does not work, please attach logs again, thanks

- lzoubek - 2010-12-26

Balthazaar Wrote:Yes, I probably won't use it either, but I'm happy to test for others. The Allmusic setting works well, but it is dependent on the tags I guess. For example, fetching of OSI covers does not work, but fetching of others eg Pink Floyd and Porcupine Tree worked. Must be the way I tag?
Currently OSI does not work for me too. This is because of tags. My tags are OSI, but in allmusic.com it is O.S.I. To make it work we need to change our tags or add OSI to allmusic.com :-)

- lzoubek - 2010-12-26

Balthazaar Wrote:Would it be possible to parse the currently playing track source directory as the album art location?
Global settings for artwork would work even for me. Smile
This is exactly what I am doing. I get filename of playing track and search for album art in its dir. Problem is, that MPD reports me filenames and paths as absolute, but in the sense of its media library root. Thatswhy I need to have path to MPD root set up.

I decided to put the 'Path to MPD source root' setting to be per profile. It will apply only when local album fetcher is selected in global section.

- lzoubek - 2010-12-26

poserdonut Wrote:Any chance that you will do any changes to handle mopidy? Seems like they won't implement the idle command anytime soon.
Could you try to pull from git and test against mopidy? Note, you need to set up 'Use IDLE command' to false in global settings. I was not able to run mopidy myself. I've tested noIDLE client against classic MPD and it seemed to work fine. Let me know ;-)

- poserdonut - 2010-12-26

lzoubek Wrote:Could you try to pull from git and test against mopidy? Note, you need to set up 'Use IDLE command' to false in global settings. I was not able to run mopidy myself. I've tested noIDLE client against classic MPD and it seemed to work fine. Let me know ;-)

I'll check it out and get back to you.

- poserdonut - 2010-12-26

poserdonut Wrote:I'll check it out and get back to you.

Have just played two songs from Spotify using this client with Mopidy.

You, sir, are a baller.

One of the songs just stopped now though. It's problematic to know if it's because of Mopidy or the client.

IDLE stuff seems to work though.

Also when it goes to the next song in the play list it seems the indicator showing what song is playing and the info up top telling what song and artist i currently on does not change.

- Balthazaar - 2010-12-26

lzoubek Wrote:Currently OSI does not work for me too. This is because of tags. My tags are OSI, but in allmusic.com it is O.S.I. To make it work we need to change our tags or add OSI to allmusic.com :-)

I already tried changing my tags to O.S.I. but it still wouldn't show artwork from Allmusic. I may need to look a bit deeper.



Anyway, I have just pulled from git and will do some more testing.

- Balthazaar - 2010-12-26

Excellent!

Local artwork now working.

Still can't get O.S.I. (or OSI) to work from Allmusic. hehe.

- lzoubek - 2010-12-26

Balthazaar Wrote:Still can't get O.S.I. (or OSI) to work from Allmusic. hehe.
I've found a little bug in allmusic.com fetcher, I'll push in a few hours. O.S.I. should work then.

- lzoubek - 2010-12-26

poserdonut Wrote:Also when it goes to the next song in the play list it seems the indicator showing what song is playing and the info up top telling what song and artist i currently on does not change.

Oh, that is right. I'll fix it soon.

Thanks for testing

- Balthazaar - 2010-12-26

lzoubek Wrote:I've found a little bug in allmusic.com fetcher, I'll push in a few hours. O.S.I. should work then.

Great. I also found that Blue Öyster Cult wasn't working either... Big Grin

- lzoubek - 2010-12-26

Balthazaar Wrote:Great. I also found that Blue Öyster Cult wasn't working either... Big Grin
O.S.I. could work now. Although, not sure how to handle these special characters