Hello,
I have still isssues with my coverarts that are not displayed in the Linn userinterface.
I use a NAS from QNAP ( TS 239 Pro MK II ) first I installed Twonky 5.1.3. now I use Twonky 4.4.17 because of the Twonkytree.
As I mentioned I still have troubles with albumarts that are not displayed or not always displayed in the Linn userinterface.
Sometimes cd albums are not displayed correctly , that is track title etc.
When I use Mediamonkey for instance everything looks fine.
Should I do a rebuild again or change albumarts in size or?
Named the album coverarts to folder.jpg and stored them in the proper album map.
Mark
Albumcover art not working with Linn DS , Twonky on NAS
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Briain
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Re: Albumcover art not working with Linn DS , Twonky on NAS
Hi
I've not used Twonky 4 for a while (since 5.0 came out in fact) but I do remember that with Twonky 4.4.11, ampersands and apostrophes in the path names usually caused the art hyperlinks to break (and thus not show art for those albums on the control point). For example, if you have a directory /media/music/ABC/B 52's/Mesopotamia (with the FLAC files and Folder.jpg for the Mesopotamia album in that directory) then change it to /Music/ABC/B 52s/Mesopotamia and rebuild the database. Same would apply if you had something like /Music/ABC/CSN&Y/Deja Vu; change that to /Music/ABC/CSNY/Deja Vu
I found that there were still a small few albums that (even with the paths fixed) just wouldn't show the art, and for those ones I had to embed the art into the FLAC files (and delete the Folder.jpg). To be honest, having found that I had a lot more success using embedded art, I changed the whole collection over to embedded art about 18 months ago and have never looked back since.
If you wish to do that, you can use dBpoweramp's batch converter to do a batch (or even the whold lot) at once (it looks for the folder.jpg file and embeds it to all the files in that directory). That means you need a separate folder for each album (which is a good filing system anyway). Try it on a single test album first, then try a small batch to give you a feel for how it all works (and an idea of how long the total process will take). As you have quite a fast NAS, if you don't have too much music (say, less than 10,000 files) then it won't take too long to leave them on the NAS and do it 'over the network' via your mapped drive to the NAS. If you have a lot of music, you might wish to put a batch of it on a FAT 32 formatted USB drive and hook that directly into the PC; embed the art on that set-up then restore the updated files to the NAS via the USB port. It really depends on the size of the collection.
Bri
I've not used Twonky 4 for a while (since 5.0 came out in fact) but I do remember that with Twonky 4.4.11, ampersands and apostrophes in the path names usually caused the art hyperlinks to break (and thus not show art for those albums on the control point). For example, if you have a directory /media/music/ABC/B 52's/Mesopotamia (with the FLAC files and Folder.jpg for the Mesopotamia album in that directory) then change it to /Music/ABC/B 52s/Mesopotamia and rebuild the database. Same would apply if you had something like /Music/ABC/CSN&Y/Deja Vu; change that to /Music/ABC/CSNY/Deja Vu
I found that there were still a small few albums that (even with the paths fixed) just wouldn't show the art, and for those ones I had to embed the art into the FLAC files (and delete the Folder.jpg). To be honest, having found that I had a lot more success using embedded art, I changed the whole collection over to embedded art about 18 months ago and have never looked back since.
If you wish to do that, you can use dBpoweramp's batch converter to do a batch (or even the whold lot) at once (it looks for the folder.jpg file and embeds it to all the files in that directory). That means you need a separate folder for each album (which is a good filing system anyway). Try it on a single test album first, then try a small batch to give you a feel for how it all works (and an idea of how long the total process will take). As you have quite a fast NAS, if you don't have too much music (say, less than 10,000 files) then it won't take too long to leave them on the NAS and do it 'over the network' via your mapped drive to the NAS. If you have a lot of music, you might wish to put a batch of it on a FAT 32 formatted USB drive and hook that directly into the PC; embed the art on that set-up then restore the updated files to the NAS via the USB port. It really depends on the size of the collection.
Bri