I saw your comment here:
Just the way how it has been programmed. “web” folder holds data extracted from musicbrainz, “personal” can hold your own images, according this structure:
/data/albumart/personal/artist/<artist_name>/ /data/albumart/personal/album/<artist_name>/<album>/
How exactly is this structure supposed to work? I’m putting files in
/data/albumart/personal/album/<artist_name>//album.jpg and those don’t seem to be getting picked up - tried also with folder.jpg and that doesnt work either. Should the name of the image file be different? Its not documented anywhere so no way for me to know.
Its a bit annoying, I have all art embedded in the MP3s, and my issue is a ‘catch-all’ folder I have in my library where I have maybe a single song from random artists and albums stored in there, while most of my library is sorted by Artist → album → song. For this catch all folder its not possible to put a folder.jpg on the root ‘miscellaneous’ song directory.
Defaulting to using the embedded art would be the best solution, but that doesn’t seem to be an option. Spent quite some time writing scripts to extract images and create the folder structure for this “personal” directory in volumio, bit disappointed to see that effort may have been all wasted.