I havn't read this entire thread, sorry

But is there any support for png images, I can only get this to work with jpg (Everything I have is png...)

Thanks for the help

Absolutely right...! Personalization is the biggest advantage of foobar...
What I need is...
When I got an album with 2 discs... my folder structure looks like this...
for disc 1: (...)\Artist\Album Name\01\
for disc 2: (...)\Artist\Album Name\02\

but... the album images are placed in
(...)\Artist\Album Name\

With the album list panel for columnsUI I checked the tags for choosing a cover art file...


So... give us the possibility customizing our "sources" for front cover, back inlay, disc and icon...

Thats what I need, too. Albums with multiple cds have this structure: \%artist%\%artist% - %album%[\CD%discnumber%]\ folder.jpg is in \%artist%\%artist% - %album%\.
It is found by albumart-panel via

best regards,
nlights

Is there any limit on the resolution of the files?

I'm currently a bit confused. I'm getting album art, formatted as %artist% - %album% showing for a few tracks, but for others no luck. Are these even meant to work?

Hi... is it possible to add more personalization to the album art panel...?
What I need is... When I got an album with 2 discs... my folder structure looks like this...
for disc 1: (...)\Artist\Album Name\01\
for disc 2: (...)\Artist\Album Name\02\

but... the album images are placed in
(...)\Artist\Album Name\

With the album list panel for columnsUI I checked the tags for choosing a cover art file...


So... give us the possibility customizing our "sources" for front cover, back inlay, disc and icon... just like it is realized for the columns or groups in the playlist view... by giving a name and a pattern... it would be great...!

Anyway to get it to read an ICO file?
I keep a folder.ico file in each director and view my folders as icons, looks much cleaner than thumbnail view.
Here's an example:

So each folder has a folder.ico file instead of a folder.jpg file.

Are there any plans to add some of the old album art plugin functions?

Specifically, I'm thinking of:
- Ability to refresh the album art by clicking in the album art panel, so you can display the updated art without disrupting playback if you change the art or add new art to the folder while a song is playing
- Ability to lock the panel to display the album art for the song that is playing, regardless of what song is selected or what playlist you are navigating (double clicking the album art panel toggled between displaying the art for the selected song, or the playing song).

I"ve upgraded to 0.9.5 final and the album art plugin has completely stopped recognizing all embedded art and cover.jpg files. Everything displays as my default "no image" file.

Edit: NVM. It seems I just had to re-apply my layout. problem solved

Is there a way to later a bit the plugin so it doesn't look for the cover in the same folder as the song.
I want to make it something like this:
Make an artwork folder where I put all my covers.
name all covers this way - ArtistAlbumCover.jpg (for instance PinkFloydTheWall.jpg) Or something like that.
The plugin should take the name of the artist and the album from the tags and then look for a match in that folder.
It's confusing to have all those folder.jpg-s on my HDD and I my torrent client seems to dislike it when there are files in the folder that shouldn't be there.

Hi! Thanks for foobar2000 version 0.9.5, it works like a charm and I like the new layout.
Is it possible to look for the album art in the containing folder, in the case where there is no album art in the current folder? E.g. if I have my music arranged in folders like this:
Artist\Album\(Disc)\Music....

Then if there is no album art in the disc's folder, look in Album. If there is no album art for that album, take the "album" art from the artist's folder.

Hello, i have just updated to 0.9.5 final and the album art viewer shows "multiple items" when i browse for an album. I read somewhere that you have fixed that..how can i make it show me the cover? I noticed that in albums that i didn't had cover art in their tags, album art viewer was working and displayed folder.jpeg i had inside the album folder. How can i force album art viewer to display album art inside the folder without having to remove cover art from the tags?

Where did the thread split? Any answer to my question?

Overall, the built in album art feature is great. I still have a couple of issues with it however.

1. Make it possible so that the art is not automatically resized (display images at their original resolution) I display my art at 500x500, but its hard to find everything at that size, so some are smaller (300x300 etc). They get resized and end up looking rather blurry and poor quality.

2. Give the choice to choose between the art included in tags, or an external image (folder.jpg cover.jpg etc). Right now it seems to default to the art contained in the tags first, which is often much smaller than the art I manually put in each folder.

Freeware complaints are one step up from taking offense to buggy warez code. That said I hesitate to ask if additional display options are under development or if users preferring DefaultUI best roll with the punches to enjoy this feature?

Library is about 2000 folders; any batch utilities to rename images file anyone can suggest?
Thanks

About the problem that foobar shows 'multiple items' when selecting an album that has the same cover for all the songs in it, because they are stored in tags.
I've read that the reason for this problem is that it is impossible or atleast very hard/inconvenient to compare the covers to check if they're the same.

But a program like Mp3tag shows the same cover if multiple songs with the same cover are selected. And it is being read from the tags. So this is making me think that it is possible to solve this problem in foobar.

Just a suggestion, but maybe Florian can help Peter with this?

Like this?

Do I see it correctly that with the current search pattern(s), it's not possible to have album art for album images (i.e. one audio file with embedded cue sheet per album and several of them in a single directory)? Unless of course I put each of them in their own directory which wouldn't make much sense.

If you give the album art file the same name as the album image file, it should also be recognized by foobar.

Thank you, that worked

Request:

Artist Image option as well

Thanks!!

The ones of you loading the art in an embedded form, what is the field name being used? Because it seems foobar catches the folder.jpg, but individually it won't load the embedded covers

I'm sorry, but I have to disagree - when I first started using foobar (somewhere around 0.8 I think), it influenced me to start using APEv2 exclusively as tag format (and it's still faster to work with than ID3v2 because it's appended rather than prepended). So I don't see why the previously-hailed-as-superior tag format should suddenly be treated as inferior. While it doesn't affect me overly much (I'm down to 18.7% MP3 files, with the bulk of my 25000+ files in FLAC format), I still find this annoying. I realize that APEv2 doesn't really have a "standard" tag for album art, but it's easy enough to make that configurable (it seems reasonable to default to the tag name used by MP3Tag).


Secondly, since I'm working on adding album art to my FLACs (I prefer embedding over external files; with lossless files, the extra size is relatively negligible anyway), it would be nice if foobar detected that all selected files have the same data in their album art tag instead of always going to [multiple items].

Just wanting to voice a few requests:

- "Only display art for playing track (don't follow selection)" - I too would very much like this. I would like to add that it follows the selection in Facets and I would want to turn this off, I imagine this would be resolved by implenting this feature.

- I would like to put a 'padding' of maybe 5 pixels so that the album art doesn't stretch from edge to edge, but there's a little black border around it.

- When "Multiple items" appears, I think it would be cool to have thumbnails of each item.

Regarding the problem that foobar shows 'multiple items' when selecting an album that has the same cover for all the songs in it, because they are stored in tags.
Isn't it possible to fix this?

I think it is possible because a program like Mp3tag shows the same cover if multiple songs with the same cover are selected. And it is being read from the tags. So this is making me think that it is possible to solve this problem in foobar.

Am I forgetting something? Or is it perfectly possible and not yet implemented?

Probably by storing a checksum of the album art in the database, because that's faster to compare than a big album art image, because those are loaded on demand from the tags (I guess). So when the checksums for the covers of all selected files matches then it will be displayed.

I'm no programmer, but what you're saying sounds possible to me.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if the solution from Fandango would be used it would work as followed:
You would have to generate the checksums once so they get stored in some kind of database and when the album list is updated you can update the database with new checksums. When you select an album fb2k compares the checksums of the album art of all the selected songs and if they're the same it shows the image.

It would be great if Peter could say if this is possible or not (or maybe it has some disadvantages that make it not useable) and if he is planning on implementing it.

has anyone been able to get album art working with TAK? I use mp3tag to embed the album art but foobar2000 does not show it. is this an issue with the album art viewer itself or an issue with the TAK component?

Hmm... After the upgrade to 0.9.5, only folder.jpg (as opposed to folder.bmp) seems to be recognized. Any suggestions on what could be wrong, what could I do? Thanks.

may you can change the playing order?!

would someone please answer his question?

I'm getting the same and cannot locate any options for "album art viewer".

It is possible to rename all album art that is folder.bmp to folder.jpg that works.

Wow, it does; thanks. Strangely enough, it recognizes bmp files fine on my Vista machine, but not on my XP box. I wish someone can come up with a solution that doesn't require incorrectly renaming hundreds of files though... (if anyone is wondering why I have all these bmp images, many of the files, I just pulled out the album cover images from iTunes; it's bmp)

I also keep all my art in one folder, and use a custom %art% tag which is simply the filename of the picture I wish to display (this eliminates every problem that could crop up as far as not showing the proper JPG).

This seems trivial to implement in the new foobar with titleformatting.

Admiral Oggbar, how do you use your custom %art% tag precisely ? I don't understand.

No its not and i hope too that they will fix this feature in the next beta

Same here, .bmp files aren't recognized. Vista + foobar 0.9.5

Is there even a way to delete album art tag information via foobar? (i.e. adding a field to properties that shows that the metadata is present)

How new album art viewer supports multiple artwork? I can only see "front cover", which is in fact back cover (but its not "first" cover in file).

Hi,

Is this post answered? I skimmed about 4 pages but couldn't find a solution.

Thanks,
McoreD

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....st&p=525549

Right. Thanks for that shakey. I see

Feature: Only display art for playing track (don't follow selection)

"Only"

Now I hope that is a typo or something. A user would like both methods to be available.

1/ Selected Item
2/ Now Playing

I, too, can't see cover.bmp artworks. It's a shame because that's the way Rockbox is expecting the files to be named and I have a portable version of foobar2k installed on my rockboxed Gigabeat, which I use to create personalized playlists and such.

Also, I'd like for cover art to stick to the currently playing song too.

Hello,
but is it just possible to configure the cover art in defaultUI?
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/9155/image1tv9.jpg
Because all my covers in my albums folder are named: album-front.jpg, and I can't see them with cover art...

Can somebody help me....

No it's not possible and I don't know if it will be possible in future Versions!

You could still rename all your covers to front.jpg (There are possibilities for mass renaming eg with FlexRename)

It's very sad..

Still can't figure out how to get album art working.
I have _all_ album art in a folder named "Albumart"
Which lies here: "D:\Musik\Albumart\*artist* - *album.jpg*"

This is the code I'm using:
D:\Musik\Albumart\$replace($if2(%album artist%,%artist%) - %album%,:,_,?,_,/,_).jpg

It's been working great until now. Can't figure out how to get all working.

BUG/REQUEST:
If you browse, for example with facets in album list, the official album art viewer only displays the art when there is a folder.jpg in the folder and NO embedded album art.
If both are present it displays: [multiple items]
So the request is to give folder.jpg the priority, so that foobar will also display the art when both are present.

I'd just like to add my support for custom sources for album art. Currently all my album art is named "[Front] %album artist% - %album%.jpg" and stored in the relevant albums directory. This makes far more sense to me than having hundreds of files named front.jpg

Me too...


I use the same naming scheme as you. I think it's the most logical solution. The cover picture belongs to an album and it can be front, back, cd etc. So I use %album% - front.jpg for front cover.

Using names such as folder.*;front.*;cover.* is not possible for me, because sometimes I have multiple albums (selected tracks) in one folder. So I have many cover pictures in one directory.

I wish it would be possible to define my own searching patterns and their priorities as in album art panel.

OK I'm kind of a fb2k noob, but I can't get my external album art to display at all. I renamed the files as "front" "back" and "disc" then copied them to the album folder and expected fb2k to magically display these files when I selected a song from the playlist or album list, but no go. My songs all have embedded art, so I expect that will over-ride displaying the "front" cover and I have no problem with that. But the disc and back art doesn't display either. Do I have to delete embedded art to get the folder jpegs to display, or what?

Also is there any way to get the album art to display when multiple files with the same art are selected (as when clicking on an album in the album list) as can be done in iTunes?