Originally Posted by cure

So erm,

I did a clean install of PR1.3 over the weekend. What's the deal with the media player not showing my album art?

The only things I've changed are:

/home/user/.config/tracker/tracker.cfg (changed are the bold printed lines, default lines above it, commented out)

Code:

[General]
# Log Verbosity (0=errors, 1=minimal, 2=detailed, 3=debug)
Verbosity=0
# Initial sleep time in seconds (0->1000)
InitialSleep=7
# Minimizes memory use at the expense of indexing speed
LowMemoryMode=false
# Set to TRUE when the home directory is in a NFS filesystem
NFSLocking=false

[Watches]
# List of directory roots to index and watch (separator=;)
# WatchDirectoryRoots=$HOME/MyDocs/.sounds/;$HOME/MyDocs/.documents/;$HOME/MyDocs/.videos/;$HOME/MyDocs/.images/;$HOME/MyDocs/.camera/;
WatchDirectoryRoots=$HOME/MyDocs/.documents/;$HOME/MyDocs/.videos/;$HOME/MyDocs/.images/;$HOME/MyDocs/.camera/;$HOME/MyDocs/music/;
# List of directory roots to index but NOT watch (separator=;)
CrawlDirectory=
# List of directory roots NOT to index and NOT to watch (separator=;)
# NoWatchDirectory=$HOME/MyDocs/core-dumps/;$HOME/MyDocs/cities/;$HOME/MyDocs/.sounds/Ringtones/;$HOME/MyDocs/tmp/;/media/mmc1/tmp/;/media/mmc1/cities/;
NoWatchDirectory=$HOME/MyDocs/core-dumps/;$HOME/MyDocs/cities/;$HOME/MyDocs/.sounds/Ringtones/;$HOME/MyDocs/tmp/;/media/mmc1/tmp/;/media/mmc1/cities/;$HOME/MyDocs/.sounds/;$HOME/MyDocs/apps/;$HOME/MyDocs/docs/;$HOME/MyDocs/games/;$HOME/MyDocs/logs/;/media/mmc1/apps/;/media/mmc1/docs/;/media/mmc1/games/;/media/mmc1/logs/;/media/nas/;
# Set to false to completely disable any watching
EnableWatching=true

[Indexing]
# Sets the indexing speed (0->20, where 20=slowest speed)
Throttle=0
# Set to false to completely disable any indexing
EnableIndexing=true
# Set to false to completely disable file content indexing
EnableFileContentIndexing=true
# Set to false to completely disable thumbnail generation
EnableThumbnails=true
# List of disabled modules (separator=;)
# The modules that are indexed are kept in $prefix/lib/tracker/indexer-modules
DisabledModules=
# Set to false to NOT hog the disk for extended periods
FastMerges=false
# List of partial file pattern globs (separator=;)
# This is for files to NOT index
# (basic stat info is only extended for files that match the patterns)
NoIndexFileTypes=
# Set the minimum length of words to index (0->30, default=3)
MinWordLength=3
# Set the maximum length of words to index (0->200, default=30)
MaxWordLength=30
# Set the language specific stemmer and stopword list to use
# Values include:
# - en (English)
# - da (Danish)
# - nl (Dutch)
# - fi (Finish)
# - fr (French)
# - de (German)
# - it (Italian)
# - nb (Norwegian)
# - pt (Portugese)
# - ru (Russian)
# - es (Spanish)
# - sv (Swedish)
Language=en
# Set to false to disable language specific stemmer
EnableStemmer=true
# Set to true to disable indexing when running on battery
BatteryIndex=false
# Set to true to disable initial indexing when running on battery
BatteryIndexInitial=false
# Pause indexer when disk space is <= this value
# (0->100, value is in % of $HOME file system, -1=disable pausing)
LowDiskSpaceLimit=1
# Set to true to enable traversing mounted directories on other file systems
# (this excludes removable devices)
IndexMountedDirectories=true
# Set to true to enable traversing mounted directories for removable devices
IndexRemovableMedia=true

[Performance]
# Maximum text size in bytes to index from a file's content
MaxTextToIndex=1048576
# Maximum unique words to index from a file's content
MaxWordsToIndex=10000
MinBucketCount=32768
MaxBucketCount=65535

I also did a tracker reset before with a simple script using root:

trackerreset.sh

Code:

#!/bin/sh
rm -f /home/user/.cache/media-art/*.*
rm -f /home/user/.thumbnails/cropped/*.*
rm -rf /home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/*/*/.mediaartlocal
rm -rf /home/user/MyDocs/music/*/*/.mediaartlocal
tracker-processes -r

Nothing special really, both worked perfectly in PR 1.2.

So, is album art not being loaded in PR 1.3 a known issue? Is it a tracker or media player issue? Is there any way to fix it myself?

edit: Had another go at it. It works now, since I added my album dir to the WatchDirectoryRoots list. Probably fixed it doing that.
edit2: Not too sure now, did a reset again and it seems the tracker now doesn't rebuild the album cover art anymore, like it hangs, stops, just takes very long, or doesn't (re)process the dir at all anymore. Maybe there's some ghost data still around that hasn't been reset, making the media player/tracker think album covers are already indexed/shown, when in fact it has been reset. The album covers do show up in the "Photos" app, but not in the media player album view. Something tells me if I move the albums elsewhere, cover art will rebuild again, once.

Anyone?