Index Artwork

[simbun]

Hi @simoncn,

I hope you're enjoying your festive break.

I've fallen a bit behind on my artist artwork and I've come across a couple of situations where I'd like further clarification if that's ok (because I'm not sure if they're by-design).

The first is a simple one; should I be seeing disc[subtitle] artwork in my AlbumArtist index (using indexArtwork=all)? I guess the user guide could be open to interpretation in that it states:

Quote:For example, the Artist index entry for Pink Floyd will show an album cover from one of the Pink Floyd albums in your library

I wouldn't call the discsubtitle cover an album cover, but I suppose it is one of the albums covers :-)
Normally it's not obvious, but for George Michaels Ladies & Gentlemen the disc covers (when reduced by the control point) just look like solid blocks of colour.
https://www.discogs.com/master/98699-Geo...g2MzEyOA==
https://www.discogs.com/master/98699-Geo...g2MzYzMA==


My second query is just about how an image is chosen (this very well could be due to my configuration as it's fairly bespoke).
The user guide states "As far as possible, the search for an image follows the order in which the albums or items in the selection for the index entry are presented to the user.", but most of the time I'm not seeing it in this order when I'm looking at the Album Artist index.

My relevant config is:

Code:

aliasTags: Date:ReleaseDate,Album:inAlbum,ALBUMUNIQID:Album
indexTags: AlbumArtistSort:Album Artist
tagOptions: Album.sortTags={AlbumArtistSort,DateExcldngCmpltns,inAlbum,ReleaseDate}
serverOptions: indexArtwork=all
tagFormat: AlbumArtistSort.displayFormat={$AlbumArtist}, Album.displayFormat={$DateExcldngCmpltns^^ - ^$inAlbum^^^$boxtitle^ (from the boxset '^')^$release^ (^)^$albumsupp^ (^)^}

ALBUMUNIQID is an ID that uniquely identifies the album so I don't need to put superflous information into the album field in order to group them correctly e.g. Fleetwood Mac have 2 Greatest Hits albums.
I thought initially that it would be using this to pick the artwork, but that doesn't hold true.

DateExcldngCmpltns is a tag I build using tagUpdate, which is the same as DATE except it's empty for compilation albums as I want these sorted by album name.

I assume displayFormat's have no effect on the presentation of the artwork, but it would make sense to think it's dependent on the sortTags. My assumption is that it only looks at the first tag defined (and then random after that), as if it did take into account the second (DateExcldngCmpltns) it would work correctly in nearly all circumstances, apart from for Various Artists (for which the second tag is empty) where it would need to take into account the third.

I'm sure the second is down to the complexity of my configuration, but just thought I'd check.

Thanks again.