Podcasts: Persistent Album Art

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Re: Podcasts: Persistent Album Art

by manalive » Wed Feb 22, 2023 10:46 am

This seems impossible to capture.

When I add a podcast, it pulls the art correctly and saves it. It will be there for awhile. One day I'll open it up, and it's gone. I assume the cache folder is just getting cleared occasionally.

I've resorted to saving the images in a folder of my choosing and then using SQL against the MM.db to set the value. These seem to persist.

First, I use the following script to find the ID:

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SELECT * 
FROM PODCASTS
WHERE PodcastName like '%Stuff%'
(replace Stuff with part of the podcast name)

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UPDATE PODCASTS
SET CachedImageLink = 'Z:\content\audio\podcasts\_albumart\image.jpg'
WHERE ID = '1234'
(Z:\.. with the real filepath and 1234 with the ID from the first script).

It won't show up until after I've restarted MM but the images I've set this way don't seem to get cleared.

Re: Podcasts: Persistent Album Art

by Lowlander » Wed Sep 08, 2021 11:43 am

Capture the adding and subsequent loss in a debug log.
Lowlander wrote: Sun Sep 05, 2021 1:12 pm Please capture this problem in a debug log (step 4b) and attach the log to a Support Ticket: viewtopic.php?f=30&t=86643

Re: [REQ] Podcasts: Persistent Album Art

by manalive » Wed Sep 08, 2021 11:21 am

I'm sorry I never saw any notifications for replies on this thread.

I always try to have the latest beta version of MM5, and this has always been a problem. I have almost 3,000 podcasts and none of them retain their album art.

I haven't tried to figure out when it happens because it just...always happens for every podcast. It's not on restart They just disappear at some point.

What should I be looking for/how can I test this?

Re: [REQ] Podcasts: Persistent Album Art

by Ludek » Mon Sep 06, 2021 2:01 pm

I also cannot replicate, the looked up image persists fine for me.
Maybe it is releated to a particular RSS feeds? Which is the RSS link that you have tested?
Nevertheless catching this in the debug log and atacching to a ticket should shed some light on it + would show the links.

Re: [REQ] Podcasts: Persistent Album Art

by Lowlander » Sun Sep 05, 2021 1:12 pm

I'm unable reproduce this. Please capture this problem in a debug log (step 4b) and attach the log to a Support Ticket: viewtopic.php?f=30&t=86643

This will help a developer analyze why this happens in your setup.

Re: [REQ] Podcasts: Persistent Album Art

by jduffus » Sun Sep 05, 2021 12:20 pm

I have a similar problem retaining album artwork for podcasts. From the Subscriptions view in MMW 5.0.1.2433 I can right-click on a podcast and lookup an image. But it does not seem to persist for long. Is the image persistent only until the podcast is next updated? Can the image be made "sticky"?

Re: [REQ] Podcasts: Persistent Album Art

by Lowlander » Fri Aug 06, 2021 11:50 am

Which Build (Help > About) of MediaMonkey 5?

At what point do you experience the loss of associated Artwork?

I'm unable to reproduce on 2431. After associating some Art (both online and local Artwork files) and restarting MediaMonkey the Artwork is still associated, it also persisted after running Update all Podcasts.

Podcasts: Persistent Album Art

by manalive » Thu Aug 05, 2021 12:36 pm

I'm not sure how it works currently but it looks like MM tries to grab online images every time I open up the podcast subscription list.

I have hundreds of podcasts in there and they never seem to have any album art no matter how many times I manually select the image I want for it. They are just permanently blank.

It would be nice if the album art we selected would persist.

Thanks!

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