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Album covers not shown on albums with multiple disks

Hey there,

I'm currently trying to organize my music collection,
and I found that albums that consist of multiple CDs won't show an album cover in foobar2k.
You can see it in the attachments below. In that screenshot, I use the SimPlaylist component,
but it's the same issue with the default playlist viewer as well.

The folder structure I use is as follows:
-This is an Album
---CD1
-----File 1.flac
-----File 2.flac
---CD2
-----File 3.flac
-----File 4.flac

I usually have my cover files, called folder.jpg, in the root folder of the album. This works fine with single CD albums, but doesn't work here. I also tried to copy this file to each "CD x" subfolder, but none of those approaches seemed to work.
I'd also like to not go the way of embedding covers, if possible.



Re: Album covers not shown on albums with multiple disks

Reply #1 –
Quote from: AnukWolf on
but it's the same issue with the default playlist viewer as well.

The default playlist view doesn't even support album art so that statement is a bit confusing!

Anyway, simplaylist (and facets by the same developer) seem to have this "feature" where every track in a given group must have an identical path for the album art otherwise it won't show. Other 3rd party viewers generally take the album art from the first track in the group and don't care about the rest.

Really the only way to make your setup work with simplaylist is have multi-disc album tracks in the same folder. Obviously the files would have be tagged with discnumber for this to work and it's usually a good idea to prefix the filenames with it as well.

Re: Album covers not shown on albums with multiple disks

Reply #2 –
Oh, my bad, I guess I confused a few things I tried out. Yeah you're right, I didn't mean the default view!

Hm okay, that makes sense. Do you know any other playlist viewers for the default UI where this problem doesn't exist?.
I wouldn't mind switching to another viewer if there are any. At least I didn't find anything useful the last time I searched.

Another way would be to edit the source of SimPlaylist.. but I guess I wouldn't be able to find it anywhere, would I?

Re: Album covers not shown on albums with multiple disks

Reply #4 –
-This is an Album
---folder.jpg  <-- put your cover here, next to CD1 and CD2 ;) 
---CD1
-----File 1.flac
-----File 2.flac
---CD2
-----File 3.flac
-----File 4.flac


Re: Album covers not shown on albums with multiple disks

Reply #5 –
I think you need to embed the art into the files, if you do not want to use .halverhahn's suggestion. (Which I do not, I want to keep my "one folder per physical disc" structure as I identify by Freedb or Accuraterip disc id's.)

Test:
Take one picture. Copy it into both the CD1 folder and the CD2 folder. foobar2000 fails to recognize it as the same art, and shows [no image].
Instead, embed it as front cover. Now foobar2000 sees that all files have the same front cover, and displays it.

Wishlist items:
- check for same file even when it is non-embedded, and
- if there are several different pictures, show e.g. "[multiple images]" rather than "[no image]".

Re: Album covers not shown on albums with multiple disks

Reply #6 –
Quote from: Porcus on
[...] I want to keep my "one folder per physical disc" structure as I identify by Freedb or Accuraterip disc id's.

It's still one folder per physical disc. All discs are separate folders inside the album folder

e.g.
\Peter Gabriel\1983 - Plays Live\1983 - Plays Live (CD1-2)\tracknumber - title.flac
\Peter Gabriel\1983 - Plays Live\1983 - Plays Live (CD2-2)\tracknumber - title.flac
\Peter Gabriel\1983 - Plays Live\Peter Gabriel - Plays Live.jpg

Also very handy for audiobooks (20+ CDs), to have a single folder, that contains all the CDs as subfolders.

Re: Album covers not shown on albums with multiple disks

Reply #7 –
Yeah, your four folders count as two as long as you only consider the bottom subfolder as a "folder" ;)

Anyway, if you want the same picture to show for all these files, you cannot have this picture in N files in N different folders as long as N>1 - but you can have it in M different music files in K different folders, by embedding (at the cost of storage space). Maybe a bit annoying.