Album art indexing priority

[simoncn]

(17-09-2013 07:42)winxi Wrote:  I think that the popularity of 'Folder.jpg' is the reason to assign it to a lower priority. This would make it possible to use high resolution album art for MinimServer (cover.jpg) while not interfering with other libraries which force 'Folder.jpg', e.g. the one from WMP. At the same time it wouldn't cause problems for users who use just 'Folder.jpg'.

This seems backwards to me. The accepted standard is Folder.jpg, and I think MinimServer should give the highest priority to the accepted standard. It would be confusing and undesirable for MinimServer to introduce a different preferred naming convention for high-resolution images.

The recognition of cover.* was added to accommodate users who had this naming convention in their libraries based on their previous usage of other server software. It was intentionally made lower priority so that it would not interfere with the recognition of Folder.jpg files.

Quote:The '<albumname>.jpg' sounds promising, but it will cause problems as soon as <albumname> contains special characters which are not allowed in the file system in use.

There was some discussion on the Linn forums some time ago about tagging the image file with the full album name to solve this problem of illegal filesystem characters. This might be a useful improvement to the current MinimServer support for '<albumname>.jpg'. Another option would be to have some convention for how to map the album name into a valid filename.