folder.jpg seems to work fine for me. It is also documented.
Use the following naming convention for local artwork (png should also work). Artist thumb: artist.jpg; Album thumb: folder.jpg or cover.jpg; Fan Art (used as background in banners): fanart.jpg. Artist thumb and Fanart should be in the folder with the artist name. Album thumbs should be in the folder with the album name or in the disc folders below that. More about artwork file types can be found here https://kodi.wiki/view/Artwork_types
Oh, thanks for the link, I was starting to retag with artwork, but i have the file folder.jpg in a lot of albums. Some have front.jpg instead.I will rename them!
And then clear the cache.
Not gonna add artwork tags because of this:
Local Artwork is Optimal
Using embedded images on every track of the same album is suboptimal for both disk space and performance. Use a single folder.jpg in the albumâs folder instead.
I used the HACS installation method (so using the HA integration which autoinstalls the addon, etc, etc). Somehow I ended up with the BETA version even though I donât think I clicked anything beta related. Any idea how I can switch to the stable release? Or do I need to completely remove the integration / addon / hacs installation and redo the whole thing? Thanks.
It should be enough. You need to look at your folder structure I expect. Review the requirements in the docs carefully particularly the bit about the folder name exactly matching the album name.
There is a tool for Windows called power renamer, itâs part of the Microsoft power tools pack. That may work for you or perhaps thereâs a similar tool for a different OS.
I am a routine donator to open source projects and have already donated to Home Assistant projects a bunch of times already - this plugin will be no exception - but I canât do it until I get the functionality Iâve been waiting so, so long for
If your files are tagged properly (mine are) then why should it make a difference how the files are named? The metadata is in the tags, why does it have to be in the file structure?
If my tags are correct, it shouldnât matter what my filename or path are. The metadata is in the tags.
Any system where you need to put the metadata in the folder names is just bonkers.
I really like the concept of MA, and I really was motivated to migrate towards it (coming from Plex which is closed source, and coming from Owntone/Homepod Connect which works great but was unable to start on HA OS for a long time, fixed in the meantime).
But unfortunately I kept running into so many bugs in MA, that I gave up (yes, I did some bug reporting). Like players suddenly being unavailable, MA repeating the same song over and over again (DLNA) instead of going to the next song, MA confused when I add music to the queue whilst it is already playing (Airplay), GUI artwork not loading/non-stop spinners when scrolling, metadata not appearing on some playerâs screens (receiver showing song title as âMusic Assistantâ), and so on. Unfortunately at some point I gave up.
Now Iâm back to Owntone, which works great, but is not as slick as MA GUI-wise, and it doesnât have the possibility to stream different songs to different players at the same time.
Iâm looking into moving to music assistant and have set it up in docker a couple of weeks ago.
I only use Deezer as provider & Sonos as players. So far it seems to be working great.
However, one thing I donât understand is how the queue management with Sonos players works. According to the docs the native queue management is used by default in Sonos.
However, this does not seem entirly correct or most likely Iâm misinterpreting the docs.
When adding for example a Deezer playlist to the current queue Music assistant starts playing however the tracks are not showing up in the queue of the Sonos player. And thus the Sonos app cannot view a queue. It shows as empty. Skipping a track works but that is about it.
Usecase is as follows:
you start playing music with MA
you move away from your computer and want to continue controlling players on your mobile device
In my case I go to Sonos app to add a new playlist or skipping a few songs via the queue or even look at the queue to check 2 tracks back, currently the only option I have is to completly replace the queue and this skip out on Music Assistant.
The inverse is also true, when starting to play Deezer music via Sonos Music assistant doensât detect this as a valid queue and just displays outdated information for the current playing track or playlist. However, some things work like the current position in the track and volume control.
Is there a reason for not using the native queue possibilities in Sonos?
What a nice service!! so surprised about that. I was looking for something like that and is really what I wanted. As user of HA, this will be a step on with this system. Thank you!
I didnât say the file name matters (although it does if you havenât tagged) I said the ALBUM folder name has to match the tagged album name if you want the local album art to be picked up.
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