volumio2 covert art for 3rd party clients

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Hi and thanks for this really nice piece of software!

I am wondering how one can have the covers show in clients like MPDroid, MPad, Cantata…

With volumio 1.55 what I did is simply create a symlink for music folder to www folder so that clients could fetch the cover.jpg directly.

I am new to node.js so I don’t understand completely what’s going on but form what I’ve seen there is an albumart plugin which expects a path query to retrieve the cover.

I have been unsuccessful at making this work in my clients. I am trying by setting the fetch url to volumio.local/albumart?path=

But somehow they probably fail to properly input the path.

Would you be kind to direct me how I can resolve this?

Thanks a lot!

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Hi

Did you try to just put http://volumio.local/albumart? that is what I see as the location of the albumart on my volumio 2 version.

If that does not work, are you positive that the volumio.local hostname is properly undestood by your device? Remember that android devices (as an example) does not have system-wide zeroconf lookup, but a specific app might or might not have it implemented.

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Yes I was aware that there is no zeroconf support on Android so I used the ip directly (192.168.1.105/albumart?) but with no success :frowning:

Maybe I’ll just create another node.js server just to serve an access to music folders so that it’ll work like it did on 1.55

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For that to work you will have to check if the folder actually is shared. Else you will never find it.

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I am not sure what you mean by the folder having to be shared but if you mean access rights, it is not a problem. I had this working on volumio 1.55 which has a conventional web server just serving the files statically.

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Play a track in Volumio. On the album art with right click select display image in a new window or tab or image properties.
Now you have the full path to the image.
ex : 192.168.0.17/albumart?web=Arno/B … 0Hero.flac

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Yes I did try that and I was inputing what I thought was a correct path but somehow it didn’t work.

I ended up coding an ultra simple node.js server directly on my Synology NAS to serve the cover files.

This way, in MPDroid and MPad all I had to do is specify my_nas_ip:3000 as the web server to retrieve cover.jpg files

For those interested:

var express = require('express');
var app = express();
app.use('/NAS/MusicLibrary',express.static('/volume1/music/Library'));
app.listen(3000);