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Artist "cover art"
I have noticed a peculiarity with Asset on Windows 7, with regard to the image it uses for an artist as opposed to an album. I am using Linn Kinsky for my Sneaky DSM. Don't know if it's relevant to the OS or renderer but I suspect not.
What happens is, if Asset finds an artist who is only found within a compilation (ie "Various Artists" is the album artist, "Fred" is the track artist), then when Kinsky lists Artists->Fred, it displays the album art for the compilation. Fair dos as it has no other info. But if later I import an album by Fred, it still uses the old compilation album artwork. I have tried removing the compilations from my library, restarting Asset, and seeing what happens. Before re-introducing the compilations, all artists appear with their own artwork as expected. After I re-introduce the compilations however, some get the compilation artwork instead - and it seems random as to which ones as it doesn't happen to all of them. It's annoying when listing artists and finding the image used for Fred is a compilation album!
There doesn't seem to be a way of changing the artwork to use for an artist - other than manually changing the artwork for each artist's track in a compilation for whom an album also exists in the library. Tedious and long winded - and won't work for the first track on a compilation as this will change the artwork for all artists on the compilation! (Fix is to rename the file so it isn't first - I am presuming Asset uses the first track ID-tag to get the album (and hence artist) artwork?)
Is there any way for Asset to give an option to change the artwork for a given artist? Or even read a "folder.jpg" in the artist's parent folder that it can use for that artist, instead if of a track/album image?
Any suggestions/fixes will be appreciated
Tim
What happens is, if Asset finds an artist who is only found within a compilation (ie "Various Artists" is the album artist, "Fred" is the track artist), then when Kinsky lists Artists->Fred, it displays the album art for the compilation. Fair dos as it has no other info. But if later I import an album by Fred, it still uses the old compilation album artwork. I have tried removing the compilations from my library, restarting Asset, and seeing what happens. Before re-introducing the compilations, all artists appear with their own artwork as expected. After I re-introduce the compilations however, some get the compilation artwork instead - and it seems random as to which ones as it doesn't happen to all of them. It's annoying when listing artists and finding the image used for Fred is a compilation album!
There doesn't seem to be a way of changing the artwork to use for an artist - other than manually changing the artwork for each artist's track in a compilation for whom an album also exists in the library. Tedious and long winded - and won't work for the first track on a compilation as this will change the artwork for all artists on the compilation! (Fix is to rename the file so it isn't first - I am presuming Asset uses the first track ID-tag to get the album (and hence artist) artwork?)
Is there any way for Asset to give an option to change the artwork for a given artist? Or even read a "folder.jpg" in the artist's parent folder that it can use for that artist, instead if of a track/album image?
Any suggestions/fixes will be appreciated
Tim
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