Moode Player Help

[stree]

Just loaded 2.5 and it is smooth as silk.... no setup issues at all.... just got a Phat DAC with RCA ports so will be shutting down and adding that, I see it is on the list............
My only issue is adding album art. tried media monkey and album art finder, but no luck in actually getting images on to the library.....Any tips?

[struth]

you can send them into the folders from a pc using samba. or add them with the hdd plugged into the pc... I put them in the main folder and name them folder.jpg for each... they will often just appear though after time, a bit like the samba share does in your pc. tyou then have to update the folders in the pi

[stree]

Got it..... Thanks Struth, I think I overcomplicated it...............steady job for a rainy day gathering the artwork..........

[stree]

Quick update. working nicely..... using Album Art Downloader.........nice and simple

[Aligauld]

Hi there,
I find this happens occasionally if the NAS has put the drives to sleep and MoOde isn't able to "waken" them again.
My solution is to waken the drives via file explorer on the PC before I start MoOde.

Hope this helps

Cheers,
Alistair

Yeah,
Well so much for that idea.
That didn't work this morning so am now in the process of repopulating all the mount points.
Oh well keeps me busy.

Cheers,
Alistair

[stree]

Back to square one here with artwork too, after grabbing loads of artwork using Album Art Downloader, which puts them into my ( Windows) Library folder each creating a folder.jpeg, I refresh-update whatever I can on moode but no art appears now.........This seemed to work before but I get nothing at all now. rebooted, shutdown and restarted, updated, refreshed. nothing.
Is there anywhere at all where there is a step by step on this for GUI? I cannot find much at all that seems to apply to me, not to detract from what Struth has told and shown me, most of that actually shone a light and helped! But this one keeps getting past me..........

[struth]

Folder.jpg. might be the prob... I get the occasional on that doesnt work but other than that they come out like this




With most it just goes down ok after jriver had ripped it and embedded the picture

[TimCurtis]

Back to square one here with artwork too, after grabbing loads of artwork using Album Art Downloader, which puts them into my ( Windows) Library folder each creating a folder.jpeg, I refresh-update whatever I can on moode but no art appears now.........This seemed to work before but I get nothing at all now. rebooted, shutdown and restarted, updated, refreshed. nothing.
Is there anywhere at all where there is a step by step on this for GUI? I cannot find much at all that seems to apply to me, not to detract from what Struth has told and shown me, most of that actually shone a light and helped! But this one keeps getting past me..........

Hi Chris,

Very odd.

I haven't had any reports of cover art issues with 2.5. Jpeg extension is supported. Please zip up one of your album folders that contains folder.jpeg and send me a download link. You don't have to include all the song files, maybe just 2 or 3.

Regards,
Tim

[stree]

Grant, I don`t use jriver the rips I have are all from a mix of itunes and amazon rips from buying CDs, All the Amazon have artwork, only some of itunes. I understand itunes is notorious for not behaving nicely.

Tim..........
I am sure that 2.5 is perfectly OK, and that the issue lays with my usage and setup.
Before I find download and install a ZIP prog, can we just explore if I am proceeding correctly?
I have the music files in library, these all play OK, but only a few random ones have artwork.
I used Album Art Downloader to find artwork. The default save on there is to my pictures folder, creating a folder for each artist and album selected, the artwork contained for each is titled folder.jpeg.
I assume that this is found as an when needed with no intervention from me. Is this correct? I also changed the "save" to the main folder on the NAS where the music folder is, but no difference the artwork is not found there either.
Sorry for the baby steps,

[TimCurtis]

Grant, I don`t use jriver the rips I have are all from a mix of itunes and amazon rips from buying CDs, All the Amazon have artwork, only some of itunes. I understand itunes is notorious for not behaving nicely.

Tim..........
I am sure that 2.5 is perfectly OK, and that the issue lays with my usage and setup.
Before I find download and install a ZIP prog, can we just explore if I am proceeding correctly?
I have the music files in library, these all play OK, but only a few random ones have artwork.
I used Album Art Downloader to find artwork. The default save on there is to my pictures folder, creating a folder for each artist and album selected, the artwork contained for each is titled folder.jpeg.
I assume that this is found as an when needed with no intervention from me. Is this correct? I also changed the "save" to the main folder on the NAS where the music folder is, but no difference the artwork is not found there either.
Sorry for the baby steps,

Hi Chris,

Moode looks for cover art in the song file itself (embedded) or in the folder containing the song file. This is the standard for virtually all music players.

The reason u are not seeing cover art is that the jpeg files are being stored in a separate folder structure under a folder named Pictures. I'm not familiar with Album Art Downloader but possibly it can be configured to store the cover art jpeg file in the folder containing the song file.

Ex:

Music
--Artist1
----Album1
------Song1.flac
------Song2.flac
------folder.jpeg
----Album2
------Song1.flac
------Song2.flac
------folder.jpeg

Regards,
Tim