[mythtv-users] mythmusic doesn't display embedded album art in flac files

[Paul Harrison]

On 03/08/11 15:39, Thomas Boehm wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm using mythtv 0.24+fixes and noticed that mythmusic doesn't display
> embedded album art from flac files. It works fine with mp3's though.
>
> To tag the flac's I used Easytag and read the comments in the wiki about
> letting Easytag change the file date in order for mythmusic to pick up
> the changes at the next scan. I also enabled writing ID3 tags to the
> flac files in EasyTag. If I put a cover.jpg in the folder it displays in
> mythmusic.
>
> Is there a way around it? I would like to use the embedded album art. If
> it isn't possible (yet?), does anybody know a tool which can extract the
> album art for a whole folder tree?
>
> Thanks
> Thomas

Currently MythMusic only supports embedded album art in ID3V2 tags even
in the 0.25pre version because the version of TagLib (1.6) we require
doesn't support reading/writing album art to any other format.  TagLib
1.7 does now support album art in flac files but that is probably a
little too new to make the minimum version required. It would be fairly
trivial to add support in 0.25pre since the infrastructure is already in
place and we could conditionally add support if TagLib 1.7 is installed
it just requires someone who is interested enough to write the code :)

Paul H.