Artwork Lookup fails/incorrect [#19714]

[stonefree]

Hi,

The problem is that MediaMonkey for Android is either not fetching artwork for certain artists/albums, or fetching obscure covers instead of the album cover that was present on the CD being issued.

Paula Cole's This Fire Album is not fetching artwork, the wheel spins but then you are left with a white page. In the previously released MediaMonkey v1 that album was being fetched successfully.

One strange thing is that some artwork seems to have gone missing, but I'm not sure when it happened, it might be on the first MediaMonkey 2 beta, but I wasn't paying attention for a while.

Black Sabbath eponymous debut, "Black Sabbath" is fetching some random "Manchester 1989" Sabbath picture, rather than the usual painting of a house in mainly purple covers that the original issue of the album had.

The problem is on MediaMonkey 2.0.0.1059.

[rusty]

Thanks--I can confirm! Tracked at https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=19714

-Rusty

[Zonky]

Maybe related to my observation with Android Auto latest beta (with Coolwalk enabled), too:

I've synchronized at least three playlists from MMW 5.x to MMA beta (latest version) and noticed that some of the tracks do not show up an artwork on AA. On Windows the artwork show up however and is stored in tags as type cover.

[rusty]

Hi Zonky,

To make sure I'm understanding correctly, are you pointing out an Android Auto-specific issue with MMA? i.e. for tracks that have artwork in MMW, but are missing the artwork in Android Auto, is the artwork also missing from MMA proper?

Thanks!

-Rusty

[Zonky]

Exactly!

The above photo was taken at the time the track was already playing, but the artwork is missing on Android Auto (build: 8.7.130204-release.daily)

Those are the properties from MMW 5.x of this track. As you might see, the artwork is there, in AA it's missing.


Maybe that's because of another posted issue: https://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewt ... p?t=103478

[rusty]

Thanks for clarifying. If the artwork is also missing from MMA proper, then it's likely this issue:
https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=19690

(i.e. it's missing from Android Auto because it's missing from MMA itself)

-Rusty

[Zonky]

Unfortunately, it's not the case, the artwork is available in MMA properties or when playing the track solely in MMA without a connection to Android Auto.

However, as mentioned above, I guess this issue is due to the slow responsiveness of MMA in Android Auto as written elsewhere.

[stonefree]

I'm also getting lesser quality covers where for some reason instead of using the picture that appears on the front of the booklet, I'm instead getting a picture of the CD box.

MediaMonkey has just looked up "Warsaw Or The First Breath You Give Up" by "Them Crooked Vultures" and instead of just the red cover with the man/vulture I'm getting a picture of the CD which contains the booklet cover.