I’m trying everything ever written to get my supplied artist images to display in Volumio’s Music > Artists list to find zero success. Using Raspberry Pi 5.
It’s not simply “unrecognizable” or improperly named artists–it is all of them.
Each image is presently the only file contained in an “Artist” folder using the simple scheme of Music > Artist > Album. For the file name I’ve tried: Folder.jpg; folder.jpg; Artists.jpg; artists.jpg; Artist.jpg; artist.jpg. The only other contents of the “Artist” folders are sub-folders to include one with the same name as “Artist” containing “loose” songs not associated with any album.
All are .jpg images sized 300 x 300 pixels.
Music > Library > [path to SSD] does display my supplied artist art.
The “Now Playing” Plugin also displays my supplied artist art. edit: “Now Playing” only displaying the artist because it is also the Album Name and image for titles not associated with an album.
Why won’t Volumio use my art in the Music > Artists menu?
@SimonE: > Here’s how I change/add artist pictures.
put the artist picture here: /data/albumart/web/artistname/artist.jpg
In the same folder, modify or create the info.json file to include the line: {“extralarge”:“artist.jpg”}
backup the folder /data/albumart/web
That’s exactly what I’ve done except I kept the original image name instead of changing it to “artist.jpg” I produce the the folders, .json file, etc. by my programming. I also added them to /data/albumart/user folder which is not erased by the “clear album art cache” command.
The act of changing the file names, no matter what is used for the name [seems] to cause Volumio to loose association after a restart.
From what I read about how Volumio used to work, all of this effort shouldn’t be necessary as it’s supposed to grab files named “artists.jpg” to use in much the same way as it grabs “folder.jpg” to use for album covers.