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No album art + musicdb error in log - Scooby-2 - 2014-07-08
This is driving me round the bend - I am completely unable to enable album art for our CD collection. I am running a Raspberry Pi with version: XBMC 13.1 Git: unknown. Compiled Jun 11 2014 (this is what is reported on the TV). NONE of my CDs show any album art. I have made sure that the tracks are all MP3 ID3v2 compliant with all fields completed. Originally I was playing music on a NAS server but I read there are problems with album art on NAS-based files. I did try both Samba and NFS but neither showed album art. I have now copied a CD's tracks to the Pi itself - but there is still no album art. If I play the music in Exaile on my Linux machine it displays the album art correctly, so I don't think it's a problem with my methoid of tagging. I upgraded the XBMC version, going to a newer build - same problem. I tried a different Pi - no different. I enabled debug level logging and I can see something about a problem with the music database:
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ERROR: Open - failed to open source <musicdb://artists/4/6/66.mp3?albumartistsonly=false&albumid=6&artistid=4>I think XBMC is brilliant, but not being able to add Album art is a bit of a downer. Any help is appreciated.
RE: No album art + musicdb error in log - Scooby-2 - 2014-10-25
No replies, but in case anyone else has this problem here was my fix.
Re-installing Raspbmc from scratch didn't work so I Googled for album art downloaders. I found the best (for me) was a Python script called CoverLovin, which I ran on my Linux PC. It worked with about 95% accuracy. It downloads a jpg file for each album and puts it in each CDs directory and calls it cover.jpg. These are displayed in XBMC fine.
For the 5% or so of art that was incorrect I simply Googled for an image of the CDs in question and downloaded one which matched my original CD, renamed it to cover.jpg and saved it in the appropriate directory.