multi-folder Album Art location

[simoncn]

I agree that this would be nice. The problem is that it is not simple to do this in a way that works as the user expects for all possible folder hierarchies.

MinimServer does not assume that the user's library is organised as an Artist > Album > Disc hierarchy. This means it would not be safe for MinimServer to infer that the parent folder of a folder that contains files from an album disc (including the common case of a single-disc album tagged with DISCNUMBER=1) is an album folder that should have special treatment for its folder.jpg file.

The rules to identify this situation would need to be something like this:

1) The folder A contains a single folder.jpg file with no audio files
2) The folder A contains multiple subfolders
3) All the subfolders of A contain only files with the same ALBUM=albumname tag
4) Each of the subfolders of A contains only files with the same DISCNUMBER tag
5) If all the above are true, apply the folder.jpg image in folder A to the album albumname

These rules are complex to specify, understand and implement. Also, they would not work correctly if an artist folder contains a single multidisc album by that artist and the disc folders appears directly under the artist folder, i.e.,

artistname
..albumname disc 1
..albumname disc 2

rather than

artistname
..albumname
....albumname disc 1
....albumname disc 2

In the first case, a folder.jpg file in the artistname folder would be applied incorrectly to the album albumname.