Albumart for playing track
pMusic shows albumart in the main window if available. With the default frontend 'Manager' it is located at bottom-left corner. A larger view of the same image is found in the Trackinfo window. Click on it to see it in full size.


The priority is:

  • 1. Look for embedded image in the audio-file.
  • 2. Look for image in the same directory as the audio-file.
    The image file should be named with 'front, albumart, album_art, cover or folder'.
  • 3. Look for image downloaded by pMusic previously.
    If set up to do so, pMusic will download the image file when albumart find one on the internet. More about this below.
  • 4. Grab image from URL defined in the database (DB).
    If pMusic previously found a matching albumart, but user has not set up pMusic to download it, the URL is stored in the DB for later use.
  • 5. Search on the internet for matching albumart.
    If no albumart exists embedded, locally or via URL, pMusic searches the internet for a matching albumart. This search depends on meta-tags for Artist and Album.

  • With these tags in place it searches www.albumart.org, www.seekacover.com and www.slothradio.com (in this priority order).
    Very recently, www.albumart.org went down, so you should update to pMusic 5.2.1 to include these multiple search-sites. All these sites uses www.amazon.com as their image source. In the future it would be great if we additionally could use google's image-search as well.

    If pMusic finds a matching albumart on the web, it will store the URL in the DB, to find it quicker next time. If activated, the image-file can be automatically downloaded to your harddrive when found. Since this will require some space, it is not set to be the default choice. Activate this feature in the Preferences.


    Search albumart
    If you let pMusic download albumart, you will after a while have a nice collection of images. So what do we do with these. They will of course show the playing albumart quicker, but more important; you can search within these and get a visual album search. The albumart search is activated in the search dock.


    When scaling the main window you will see that the albumarts won't scale to fit. Choose 'Update sizing' in the right-click menu. Here you can also choose size of the thumbs.


    Save albumart
    Save albumart means 2 different things.
    1. Save the found albumart to a local file
    2. Embed the albumart into the audio-file

    Both operations are done in the trackinfo window. Be aware that the masstagger allows you to embed one albumart into many files.
    There are corresponding functions for 'Delete albumart' in the Trackinfo window.

    Posted on 4 Oct 2016, 16:14 by zigbert - Categories: Development
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