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Thanks for this utility. It works well for audio cover arts... but when I tried the video thumb... and after it said done... I loaded C2 and still didn't see the video thumb... what did i miss? i do have mplayer installed.

Thanks.

Hello,

Just a small thing : cover.jpeg is not recognized as a proper cover. Need to be renamed cover.jpg.

HI guys,

I think thumbnail is really not working in the current version. I asked the guy to take a look at it.

Br

Marcelo

when i use that plugin to display album art it works fine for the most part , butit doesnt download covers for all my albums , even after running it several times. most of these are common albums it should be able to find. i tried goin in with a filemanager to the .canola/covers directory and creating the directory in the proper format that the downloader did but it wont display the art i placed in those folders. can anyone help me with this as i want to have art displayed for those albums that dont have it and fix the ones that it didnt download the CORRECT album cover for.... any help???

never mind lol i started messin about a bit and figured out the solution... if anyone else has the same issue ill be more than happy... creating the directories and dropping art in should even work without using the downloader

Hi Munky please point out for us the solution, so others can benefit and we can see where we missed up and fixed it.

Marcelo

Basically download the covers manually and put them in the proper directory, Canola will display it... what I really like is to have Canola or the downloader figures out on its own for me base on the MP3 tags.

Yes. You need two files : one called cover-small.jpg, sized at 150x150, the other cover.jpg, sized at 300x300. Also, directory name is case sensitive, for example if your Album field in the ID3 tag is Something To Live For, then your directory has to be named Something To Live For, not Something to live for (same goes for Artist name).

vnguyen972:
It did that. But we removed because of legal issues. I need to clarify that we are a small company but with a big one name on it, so we have pressure to do not make mistakes in the legal issues, believe it or not, downloading of album art in canola would be illegal unless we have a " authorized" source etc. (like amazon store) but with a deal straight for us. So different from the opensource players (that are persons behind it) like kagu, ukmp and others we really cannot do it, that's why we are trying to create workarounds without breaking the law =)

BR

Marcelo

emotion is right handful , thats exactly what i did.... when you use the downloader plugin it doesnt download half of em right and seems not to be able to find fairly common albums...and it downloads a bunch extra that ate the hell out of my memory i went in and manually edited every artist and album (and had to create some directories) .... is a hell of a lot easier if you (on windows ...forgive lol) make a folder named "covers" then in "covers" make a folder for each artist , and in each artist folder make a folder for each album , and in the album folder drop in the appropriately named files that emotion mentioned. a real PITA but its worth it... and as he said , make sure the album and artist names EXACTLY match the tags. and when you are done copy the "covers" folder to your mem card and (i used the emelfm2 filemanager) drop it in the /home/user/.canola/ directory and you are in business!!