Dippy download question

Posted by: hungryhalibut on 08 October 2014

I've downloaded the rather fine new album by A Winged Victory for the Sullen, from the Erased Tapes website, which doesn't have a download manager. I've put the files in the UnitiServe download folder and while they play fine, no album art shows - just the 'Naim' cd logo. The download had a JPEG of the art, which I converted to .png in the Paint programme. I recall having this problem previously, and there was something about needing a special folder file, I think. All that is in the Atomos (that's the album title) folder are the wav files and the .png art. There is no separate metadata.

 

It's not a big issue, but this is the only one of my 2,200 albums that shows the horrid green logo. Can anyone help please?

 

The album is a 96k 24bit version, for £8.99. Good value, but the artwork would be nice.

Posted on: 08 October 2014 by garyi

The format it was in was correct, it needs to be a .jpg file.

 

obtain the artwork again, google is your friend. Rename the file 'folder', place it in the album folder.

 

don't play with pngs again unless you are designing a website that requires transparency

Posted on: 08 October 2014 by Stevee_S

HH all  artwork should be in a separate folder (within the album folder) and named Folder.jpg  or folder.jpg

 

Whether this will work with your conversion to .png i.e. Folder.png or folder.png I'm not sure

Posted on: 08 October 2014 by hungryhalibut

I've set up a new folder within the album folder and called it folder.jpg. I've put the original album art file into it, as a JPEG. But still no art. I've cleared the UPnP cache to no avail. Any ideas?

 

Should I just call the original art file folder.jpg instead? Or does it stay with the original title ERATP061_cover and be placed in a new folder called folder.jpg?

Posted on: 08 October 2014 by GraemeH

Yes to 2nd question - just call the original art file folder.jpeg. That should do it.

 

G

Posted on: 08 October 2014 by hungryhalibut

I've now called the original file folder.jpg (is that right, not .jpeg ?)

 

The picture is still the green Naim logo. When I play the album, about four tracks now show the album art, and the rest don't. 

 

Very odd!

Posted on: 08 October 2014 by nickpeacock
Just wondering if you might either (i) clear the image cache on your handheld device (though whether this function is available in the new app I don't know) or (ii) get your NAS to re-index the media files...
Posted on: 08 October 2014 by garyi

I dont know why people say it has to be within a folder in the album folder. This is incorrect.

 

name the jpg ,'folder' and put it in the album folder. That is all.

 

you need to wait a while for various things to pick it up.

Posted on: 08 October 2014 by hungryhalibut

Thanks Gary, I'll change it tonight - it's currently called folder.jpeg. I have re indexed and cleared the cache. What is odd is that the album sleeve itself is showing as the green cd in nStream, and when I play the album, four tracks show the cover while playing and the rest don't. So as soon as it moves from track 5 to track 6, the album art vanishes. I though a night may give the chance for everything to catch up, but no.

Posted on: 09 October 2014 by hungryhalibut

Hurrah! Changing the file 'folder', rescanning the downloads share, and reloading the app has fixed it. Thanks all.

Posted on: 09 October 2014 by Bart

Well you got it sorted before I could chime in!  Like Gary, I don't know why people are recommending putting the artwork in a separate folder.  Just name it folder.jpg and put it in the same folder as the music files.  Which you've now done.

Posted on: 09 October 2014 by hungryhalibut

Actually, it's just called 'folder' rather than 'folder.jpg'. Renaming to 'folder' seems to be what did the trick. Goodness knows why.

Posted on: 09 October 2014 by ChrisSU
Originally Posted by Hungryhalibut:

Actually, it's just called 'folder' rather than 'folder.jpg'. Renaming to 'folder' seems to be what did the trick. Goodness knows why.

This is mere conjecture on my part, but sometimes (on a Mac, don't know about PCs) the .jpg is hidden for some reason. So if you write 'folder.jpg' you would if fact, unknowingly, be writing 'folder.jpg.jpg'. Wether or not that is the case in this instance, I have no idea, but if so, it would no doubt cause issues.

 

No doubt someone who knows more that me will soon post to explain why this is a load of ********, which is fine. All I know is that I've occasionally found it to be an issue when filing .pdf and .jpg in my documents folder.

Posted on: 09 October 2014 by Bart
Originally Posted by ChrisSU:
Originally Posted by Hungryhalibut:

Actually, it's just called 'folder' rather than 'folder.jpg'. Renaming to 'folder' seems to be what did the trick. Goodness knows why.

This is mere conjecture on my part, but sometimes (on a Mac, don't know about PCs) the .jpg is hidden for some reason. So if you write 'folder.jpg' you would if fact, unknowingly, be writing 'folder.jpg.jpg'. Wether or not that is the case in this instance, I have no idea, but if so, it would no doubt cause issues.

 

No doubt someone who knows more that me will soon post to explain why this is a load of ********, which is fine. All I know is that I've occasionally found it to be an issue when filing .pdf and .jpg in my documents folder.

Chris, some operating systems, by default, want to hide the extension (the info after the .)  OS X does default to this; the extension is there (the file is named folder.jpg) but if the default settings are in place the file name appears as only folder    This setting can be toggled in Finder|Settings|Advanced.   Windows does the same thing.  So you're right!

Posted on: 09 October 2014 by garyi

On mac though when you rename, the extention is revealed.

Posted on: 09 October 2014 by hungryhalibut

Anyway, Atomos is a really good album, and sounds great in 24bit 96k. Highly recommended. Quite what AWVFTS will be like live when we see them in Brighton next week remains to be seen.