Index Artwork

[simoncn]

I think it would be good to have a solution for this. It is unlikely to affect most users, so it must be done in a way that has the smallest possible impact on performance in the normal case of no conflicts and no restricted images.

Image filenames are not read from the indexArtwork folder when the user is browsing by Artist, Label, etc. They are read from this folder during a rescan and cached in a table indexed by filename. This means that a restricted image needs to be distinguished from a shared image by something in its filename.

For example, a restricted image could contain the sequence $_ followed by the restricted index tag name. In your example, the filename for the BIS (record label) image would be:

indexArtwork/BIS$_Label.jpg

if the tag for record labels is named Label. Using a two-character sequence is much safer than a single character because any single character could possibly be used in a tag value.