Raspberry Pi 5 operating a modern Player Piano with mono audio accompaniment.
Have written, run and verified the code to automatically produce and update an SSD with my library customized specifically for Volumio as my cataloging and metadata use proved incompatible. This involves custom artwork for EVERY album/folder and EVERY AlbumArtist all stored as 300x300px .jpg images.
Files are in both .OGG and .MP3 formats with the .MP3 tags encoded with ID3v2.3
The only metadata present is: Title, Track Number, Genre, Album Artist, Album, Composer, Artist
Organization Scheme: Music > Artist > Album Each “Artist” folder has an image currently named “Artists.jpg” (I’ve tried “Folder.jpg” and “Artist.jpg” also). “Loose” songs not associated with any album are included in the “Artist” folder as well as the folders for entire albums. Each “Album” folder contains an image named “Folder.jpg” and the associated songs.
Volumio scans very rapidly and reports with verified accurately: 2,774 artists; 606 albums, 20809 tracks and 1969:13:15 running time. It has been running for about 9 hours now so surely any sort of “other” indexing is complete…
Problem: Artist images refuse to display in Music > Artist
When I go to the Music > Library and navigate to the attached SSD everything there displays perfectly with both large and small artist and album images as appropriate. This includes the Artist folders which contain both Albums as sub-folders and “loose” songs in the Artist folder itself.
Using SSH to navigate to root/data/albumart finds the “metadata,” “personal” and “web” folder all empty. The “folder” subfolder however follows a path to the SSD that finds a folder for every AlbumArtist that contains subfolder for each associated album each with a file named “extralarge.jpeg” There is no similar .jpeg file in the Album Artist folder where I would expect them to appear. This is true for the AlbumArtist folders that contain only album subfolders as well as those with “loose” songs and albums.
I originally indexed with Web Art turned “off.” I turned it “on” a few hours ago. No change after it claimed to be reindexed and a restart.
I’ve pored through searches both here and via google and find numerous mentions and threads of this problem–it seems to be rather recent like 2022–but nothing I try makes any difference.
I’m open to any suggestions. I can now easily create a new full library–even if it takes nearly 5 hours for a complete “one keypress” rebuild. I can varying organization, image names, metadata element, mp3 tag encoding, etc. easily as I coded with changes and versatility in mind.
Have I perhaps overloaded Volumio with so many (2,774) artists? Note these are NOT “AlbumArtists” of which there are about 800.
Has my handing of “loose” songs by placing them in the “Artist” folder in the structure caused this problem? The only other way to organize is to make an Album folder with the same name and same AlbumArtist as the Artist folder containing it. Something told me that was begging for trouble.
