Revisiting the Artist and All Artists Index

[simoncn]

You can use the MinimServer writeAllTags property to write a complete list of tag names and tag values to a file, sorted like this:

ALBUMARTIST=Album artist 1
ALBUMARTIST=Album artist 2
....
ARTIST=Artist 1
ARTIST=Artist 2
....

Comparing this list with the image files in your indexArtwork folder should enable you to identify the image files that don't correspond to tags in your MinimServer library.

[keithsonic]

Thanks Simon this looks like a useful workaround.
LastFM though has generated not just thousands of track artists from compilation albums but produces irregular shaped thumbnails. I am now experimenting with Musicbee, which mainly extracts artist images from Fanart that I can copy across to MS. The advantage is more square images as well as only returning a file of album artists. Not quite PLEX standard but good enough.

[simbun]

(23-09-2024 14:47)keithsonic Wrote:  Not quite PLEX standard but good enough.

Have you tried using tautulli to export from Plex?

I'm sure I used it a few years ago, but could quickly verify if it still works.


EDIT: I'm sure it never used to be that easy. It still works (last updated a couple of days ago) and of the handful of albumartists I loaded into Plex all the images were square and all but one were 1000x1000.

[keithsonic]

I now have over 3k artist images in indexArtwork but as I add new images these are not automatically picked up in my control point (dCS Mosaic). To recognise changes I need to stop/restart Minimwatch, rescan library and offload/reinstall the CP app on my iPad pro to clear cache. Clearly I am hitting some sort of cache limitation somewhere but not sure where the bottleneck is or how I can increase cache size. My workaround is fine but any suggestions would be appreciated.

[simoncn]

You shouldn't need to stop or restart MinimWatch. You do need to rescan MinimServer. If there is a cache issue, it is in the control point and not in MinimServer.