Wrong image as album art

[lwizard]

Hi. I start putting some Artist image in indexArtwork so that when I browse by Artist or Album Artis there is the correct image of the artist.
But I have a problem: albums named as the Artist itself does show the artist image instead of the album cover that is in the Tag and also as folder.jpg of the folder.
For example I have an album:
- Album Artist: LateNightTales
- Album Name: AIR
- Artist of single tracks are different because is a compilation

I used AIR as album name because it is a collection of compilations called "LateNightTales" each of them is arranged by a different artist.

Well. When I browse them getting to albums list, instead of the album cover I get the artist image (AIR). Only if the artist is present in the indexArtwork. For example if I rename the album in "AIR 2" there is no match and the real album cover turn back.

[stefano_mbp]

You can read carefully this guide and especially the [New] (in red) paragraph that should help to solve your needs

[lwizard]

Thanks. I created an AlbumArtist subfolder in indexArtwork.
I had the same problem.
Turn out that I also had AIR.jpg in the album folder and this seems to had priority on folder.jpg or image in the tag.
I deleted them and now is everything ok.
I'll search how to tell minimserver to always prefer tag image when present as album art.

[simoncn]

The search order for album artwork is described in this section and it isn't possible to change this search order.

[simbun]

(08-01-2025 15:35)lwizard Wrote:  Thanks. I created an AlbumArtist subfolder in indexArtwork.

If you place artist artwork in the ./indexArtwork/AlbumArtist folder, the image will only be used in the Artist index (in addition to the AlbumArtist index if you create one).

If you place artist artwork in the ./indexArtwork/Artist folder, the image will be used in both the Artist and All Artists index, but if you place it in the root of the ./indexArtwork folder it'll be used for search results too.


Perhaps the lack of artist artwork in search results when stored in ./indexArtwork/Artist is a bug, but I currently store them in the root.

[simoncn]

I will look at the search results issue and post back here.

[simoncn]

I have found the cause of this problem. The fix will be in the next MinimServer update. Thanks for letting me know about this.

[simoncn]

This fix is now available in MinimServer update 257.

[simbun]

(28-01-2025 22:03)simoncn Wrote:  This fix is now available in MinimServer update 257.

Sorry, I missed the post updates.

I've just moved the artist images back to ./Artist and they're still showing in the search results, so it works great for me!

Thanks

[simoncn]

Thanks for confirming and thanks for reporting this problem!