[mythtv-users] Album Art and visualize bug?

Nemo Inis nemoinis at telus.net
Tue Jan 30 17:52:10 UTC 2007


On Jan 29, 2007, at 12:05 PM, Tim Scholl wrote:

> On 1/29/07, Otto Kolsi <otto at kolsi.fi> wrote:
>>
>> Tim Scholl wrote:
>> >      >John,
>> >      >
>> >      >I have the same problem. All my image are the same
>> >      >sizes
>> >
>> >      >It seems to work for awhile, but the longer they play
>> >      >it seems to get more out of
>> >      >sync.
>> >
>> >      >-- Tim
>> >
>> >     I've narrowed it down to the first album cover that's
>> >     displayed seems to have the most trouble. If it goes
>> >     to another random song the art is updated, if it goes
>> >     back to the first album the album cover doesn't change
>> >     so anytime it goes back to a song on the first album
>> >     the cover isn't updated. I added a dummy song and
>> >     cover to my play list and start it out on this song
>> >     and then go to random and it seems to change the other
>> >     covers (missed one though) but then again I'm only
>> >     testing it on three albums.
>> >
>> >
>> > I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this?
>>
>> I've seen this one too. Both during normal play and when I manually 
>> want
>> to cycle visualizations. Sometimes it gets into mode where it only
>> cycles through the real visualizations but doesn't show the album art,
>> although the image is present.
>>
>> I've noticed lots of small issues with MythMusic, like this one.
>> Unfortunately no one is currently actively maintaining / developing
>> MythMusic. I think patches that fix some of these problems are most
>> welcome :)
>> --
>>    Otto
>
>
> It's good to know we're not alone.
>
> I haven't looked at the script guess I could poke around and see if I 
> can
> find it.

I see the same things too, plus: if the first album that's played does 
not have artwork, AlbumArt picks a (random?) picture file that happens 
to be in the home directory of the my myth user, and has nothing to do 
with music. Hilarious but scary because it's a sign of random software  
behavior.



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