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Originally Posted by Rambler View Post
I was using Canola prior to Diablo and all mp3 and mp4 music was scanned and playable. Since then though , I've only been able to play mp3's. This is also the case with ukmp and youamp however all files are played with mediabox and mediaplayer. ukmp is able load cover art of the mp3's it finds. Canola was loading all cover art and now finds none. Mediabox plays all files but no cover art. I have ogg support installed and have tried all sorts of things to get them to work.

I have enjoyed trying out all the programs but cant quite figure out what needs to be done . Thanks for any help or direction.
Hi Rambler, indeed there seems to be quite a huge issues with covers in those latest releases.

What we've been doing :

- improving the scanner (it's improving) but needs more and more user files to make sure it can find everything.

- adding for beta10 the "auto" selection of all disks for scanning (with user being able to customize like it is today. This will avoid users forgetting to mark the folders to scan.

- Improving the canola-tuning-plugin to search better the covers and of course faster. I think today it is getting too much covers sometimes and has a too high timeout. This leads to huge times for downloading new covers.

What makes me wonder is what happened, because in the tests everything was fine and we were getting covers naturally, and suddenly a lot of users started noticing the problem and giving us feedback.

We will try to focus a lot on scanner / media issues in beta10, and the development has started full speed. The team is actually gathered right now deciding how to solve this and the other open issues.

I hope we will be back on the first beta's speed quite soon

thanks for the feedback!

Marcelo
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