Amarok

[SigurdF]

Hi,
I do not know if this fits into this forum.
But I have trouble with Amarok.
I think Amarok developed very well. The new features are fine. But right noe I try to put CD covers to the songs. And that is very difficult. Sometimes there is even no line for cover display in the menu. Sometimes I can put in the existing jpg-file. But it doesn't work aways. Especially samplers are difficult. And there are more problem if I create my own sampler.
What can I do? Or is this a known problem of Amarok?
Regards Sigurd

[sithlord48]

im not sure what you are asking. are you trying to embed covers into the id3 tags of a song? or are you asking why not all tracks have a shown cover in the playlist?

if your asking about the playlist covers, then you should play with the sorting of the songs. you can click on the area right above the playlist to select how it should be sorted

[woodsmoke]

Hi SigurdF

Is your post about: tools/cover manager?

Wherein you see a big display of "pictures" and on the top right of the display there is a button that says "Fetch Missing Covers"?

If the cover manager is what you are asking about, when you click "Fetch Missing Covers" you will actually get a bunch of images.

Many of them will, indeed, be "album covers".

However, many of them will just be "pictures" and they can also be "folders" but they have a name which is similar to a "song" and are included.

I do not know of an easy way to have the "album covers" in a single place so that you could, possibly, download a picture and navigate to it.

The easiest way seems to be to download a cover and maybe put it in "documents", with tags, such as "James Bond" or "Goldfinger" and then "fetch covers" and see what happens.

If this is not what you were posting about, please post again.

woodsmoke

[SigurdF]

Hi Woodsmoke,
That button "Fetch Missing Covers" is inactive. I cannot use it. How can I make it active?
Regards, Sigurd

[sithlord48]

have you set a collection folder? it might be disabled because you have nothing in your collection (default is /home/username/Music)

[SigurdF]

Of course I have set a collection folder. It is the default folder you mentioned above.

[bra|10n]

Hi Woodsmoke,
That button "Fetch Missing Covers" is inactive. I cannot use it. How can I make it active?
Regards, Sigurd

I thought that too. But I believe what is happening is that your search is returning zero possibly due to not recognizing your album/song title.

In Cover Manager if you right click on you album you can select either Fetch Cover or Set Custom Cover, being the two options of particular interest to you.
The Fetch Cover option allows you to alter the album name (for search purposes only), eg: AC/DC - Back, instead of AC/DC - Back In Black.
The Set Custom Cover allows you to search locally and manually allocate an image.

A search result such as "The search results found no matching covers" would eliminate this confusion.

HTH

[Mamarok]

It would also be quite helpful to be more precise about your Amarok and KDE versions.

[SigurdF]

Hi bra10n,
When I right click on the song I do not have the line "Album" and from there the new menu with "Fetch Cover" and "Set Custom Cover".
Hi Mamrok,
I use OS version Linux 3.0.0-16-generic, KDE Platform version 4.7.4 (4.7.4) and Amarok version 2.4.3 .
So, what can I do?
Regards, Sigurd

[bra|10n]

Hi bra10n,
When I right click on the song I do not have the line "Album" and from there the new menu with "Fetch Cover" and "Set Custom Cover".

In Cover Manager from the menu, Tools -> Cover Manager

[SigurdF]

Hi bra10n,
Again when I use the tools menu and the "Cover Manager" the button " Fetch Missing Cover" is inactive. I cannot use it.
Regards, Sigurd

[bra|10n]

Hi bra10n,
Again when I use the tools menu and the "Cover Manager" the button " Fetch Missing Cover" is inactive. I cannot use it.
Regards, Sigurd

I take it you have checked the option "Automatically retrieve cover art"? (Settings -> Configure Amarok, General tab)

[SigurdF]

Hi bra10n,
The button "Fetch Missing Cover" in the Cover Manager under tools is inactive. I cannot use it.
Regards, Sigurd

[bra|10n]

So just to be clear,

Settings -> Configure Amarok; under the General tab, "Automatically Retrieve Album Art" is not available to you?

[SigurdF]

Sorry,
but the checkbox for "automatically trtrieve cover art" is not checked. Shall I check it?
Regards