+1 for any option to prevent seeing wrong artist pictures from last.fm!
Having the first option for local stored artists images would be nice to have.
last.fm doesnt have all artists or even wrong ones!
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Any news on artist picture?
Searching the web for artists produces weird results.
According to Volumio, Vincenzo Bellini looks like:
Nice trial but the truth is that Bellini was this man:
The only way I have found is cheating Volumio by saving the good picture but with the web found name.
In this case, the nice women trio was:
/data/albumart/web/Bellini/124ba2e8-15e8-458a-934a-051aacbfb76f.jpg
So I deleted this one and saved the real Bellini with the same name.
But this is quite nonsense, isnāt it?
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@Luis1 to be fair, the picture of the three ladies belongs to a German band called āBelliniā. If you go to last.fm, and search for āBelliniā, this is the first result. If you search for āVincenzo Belliniā then the composer is displayed as the first result. Are you sure that your files are tagged with āVincenzo Belliniā and not just āBelliniā?
But Volumio should allow to easily change the picture.
If the user accepts the proposed picture it is good.
But there should be an option for assigning a different picture.
I have all my artists (composers) tagged by their best known name.
For example I donāt write Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, just Mozart or Ludwig Van Beethoven, just Beethoven. Like this is easier searching for artist in alfabetical order.
For my personal taste i prefer the look of the Volumio findingā¦
Just kidding, but like Voluminous says, how should Volumio know your abreviations for easier finding ?
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But you are not reading my proposed workaround: There should be an EASY option to overide the Volumio finding.
Mine is finding the good picture and renaming it with the Volumio name finding.
In any case I am considering uninstalling Volumio and looking for something more adapted to my preferences.
Por example the lacking of real random playing the complete list of tracks is enough to start looking for a different solution.
No information of track file path, for example, no information on which Volumio version is installedā¦
Nice trial but not convincing.
So, adios amigos, but thanks anyway for allowing an almost wonserful product.
if you ask for a banana, donāt think you will get a chiquita ā¦
Iām a newbie here both to Volumio and setting up a media server on my Synology NAS. I was about to give up on Volumio when I could not get it to recognize my NAS via its Wired Network settings. But then I discovered that it actually did find my NAS when I stumbled upon Browse->Media Servers.
So now Iāve managed to get my Synology Media Server files indexed the way I wantāwhich was no small task either since it appears media servers serve up ALL media files they find on a disk; which is not what I wanted.
Anyway, Volumio is working pretty well on my Raspberry Pi 2B and it now displays only the music files I want it to see on my NAS. So now Iām trying to determine how it (or the NAS Media Server) provides artwork. I get that it will display the content of āfolder.jpgā if found under an album subfolder (e.g., /music/rock/Joe Walsh/The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get/folder.jpg) and thatās fine, but I would like a way to display just an artist photo/artwork; preferably via something like āartist.jpgā that is listed under an artist subfolder (e.g., /music/rock/Joe Walsh/artist.jpg).
Volumio is showing many artist photos already, but most of the grid icons are blank. So Iām assuming that the ones that arenāt blank are being derived from the Internet. Unfortunately, that doesnāt work for local artists (of which I have several) who donāt have their albums and artwork published on the Internet. So can anyone here provide some insight as to how I might be able to provide some way to get local (and commercial artists) photos displayed in Volumio that arenāt currently being displayed?
My music file structure is: /Music/Genre/Artist/[Album]/Songs; where [Album] may be missing for a random mix of artist songs.
The easiest but time consuming way is this.
In the dir /data/web youā'll find all html encoded folder names.
- Copy the missing Artist folder form
/data/albumart/webto/data/albumart/personal/artist - Remove the empty json file from these folders
- Place your artist image as āArtists.jpgā in the folder that you just copied
- Repeat above steps for the missing artist.
- When completed, got to Sources click on āReset Album Art Cacheā
The fun part, it might be possible you miss previously found Artists and you can repeat this again.
At this moment I had to create 904 folders where most are pretty known Artist and also known by musicbrainz. This is about a 20% miss.
Like:
Bob Marley, Bon Jovi, Coldplay, Elton John, to name a few.
Iāve reported this a couple of times to @Volumio, but so far I have seen no improvements.
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Thanks Wheaten for the information, but where are the ā/data/webā and ā/data/albumart/webā folders located and how do I get to them. Those directories do not exist on my NAS media server and it appears I cannot connect with my RPi via SSH/PuTTY (connection refused).
Assuming those directories are located on the RPi and since Volumio is a headless system that appears to restrict access to the underlying Linux OS on it, it would be nice if Volumio provided an interface to those directories so users could more easily provide a way to add, remove or change data in those directories as desired or necessary.
I guess you didnāt do much reading, in regards to Volumio 
And yes these are folders on the rPi. This is just basic Linux, which you should master if you want to fiddle with the system.
Enable SSH, download winscp and your good to go.
https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Debian_10&p=ssh&f=3
Thanks again for the information.
I managed to get RPi to not reject connection (had to add the SHA256 hash to C:\Users\me\.ssh\known_hosts file) and I managed to navigate to the folders you alluded to, copied an Artist.jpg image to /data/albumart/persona/āartist nameā and reset the Album Art Cache to no avail. Resetting the cache did, however, wipe out all of the web artwork that Volumio was displaying and most of the RPi /data/albumart/web directories as well. So thereās obviously more to this mystery than just what you provided.
No itās normal behavior.
The folder /data/albumart/web contains all online found files for your collection. Except for those that are in the /data/albumart/personal/artist folder.
If you reset, the web folder will be deleted and populated again when browsing the Artist in the GUI.
@Wheaten you saved my day, thank you very much! I needed to tweak your info just a tiny bit: when I renamed the Artists.jpg to artist.jpg it started working. Still: very happy to have found this info!