Album art priority

[simoncn]

(02-02-2017 03:59)likescookies Wrote:  Yep, no worries--thanks for the reply. I can only think of two albums in my collection where this applies. One is a album from The Bad Plus a few years ago where they released a bonus track online that I've appended to the album. The bonus track had its own artwork, which was kind of nice, but now appears as the default artwork for the album because it overrides folder.jpg. I imagine the workaround here is to embed a copy of folder.jpg in the first track (I assume Minimserver picks the artwork from the first track that has it as the cover to display when browsing).

Yes, this is how to solve the problem. However, it will mean you don't get the custom artwork when playing the bonus track.

It might be possible for me to change MinimServer so that an individual track of an album could have custom artwork in a filename.jpg file in the same folder. This is supported for non-album files but not currently for album tracks. With this change, you wouldn't need any embedded artwork to get what you want, just folder.jpg and filename.jpg files.

Quote:The other one I can think of is a box set of NASA Voyager recordings where each disc had its own artwork and the set itself had separate artwork. I've put them together as just one long album, each track with embedded artwork from the CD and dropped the box set cover in as folder.jpg.

It's all good. It's clearly not a typical use case.

You should be able to handle this by removing embedded artwork from all tracks of the album, then adding discname.jpg and albumname.jpg files as described in this section.