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I managed to cheat by freeing up enough space on / to run the album cover app. Still cannot get it to run over a symlink to a location on either of my sd cards, but a simple copy or cd in xterm does not work either. My theory is that this is due the cards being formatted as fat32, and not linux. Not moved the covers folder to the card to see if canola will read the dir, but I suspect that it will fail. I have a new 2gb card to hand, so I will try formatting that as linux and see if that works.

An idea may be to have the location for .canola to be customisable so it can be on an sd card.

Gaz

Hmm when I'm in the .canola/covers folder and I type in "ln -s covers /media/mmc2/covers" it says "operation not permitted". Any idea why? I get the same answer when I try to copy a hamachi file to sbin. It can't be permissions cause I make sure I'm root beforehand.

Laughing Man

How/where was your card formatted? I have not been able to get this working with either of my 16Gb cards which were formatted in Windows before my N800 arrived.

I have just inserted a 2GB card and formatted it in the N800, it is formatted as vfat, and it does work. removed and reinserted the 16GB and the symlink still works.

albumcover still does not work though with the symlink, remove the symlink and it works without question. however could it be down to things like "-" and ":" in diretcory names causing the symlink to fail?

I'm guessing FAT, though I didn't have to format them at all. Plugged into into my laptop booted into Vista and it never asked me about formating.

moving the populated covers folder and then symlinking back to /home/user/.canola/covers works for the main canola app, although the albumcover still chokes on the symlink.

Hi gazza_d

The new version of canola-tuning is available at Maemo Extras (now you can use Application Manager to install it) and in this version -o option is working correctly.

Using XTerm try this:

albumcover.py -o "/mnt/mmc1/canola_covers"

Let me know if it helps you.

That works, thanks very much for all your efforts.

Much appreciated.
Gaz

Cool, will this allow me to share coverart with UKMP? (no point in having twice the cover art).

Laughing : the thing is the canola needs 2 sizes, maybe this is ok for UKMP =)
And also, if I'm not mistaken ukmp uses names for the covers right? we use (folder/folder) structures ) with cover.jpg

So I don't know if its going to be out of the box...

Marcelo

I am still having problems. Cover downloader either freezes or continues to put the art, up to 10 versions of each cover on the device memory.