Local album art doesn't load unless I open the album

[stephen304]

I have MPD + Nginx running with a colection of music that all has embedded album art and folder.jpg in the album folders.

The problem is that no album art shows unles I press on the album, after which it loads and going back to the album view shows the art. It seems to automatically request art from online providers when scrolling through the list, but it doesn't seem to to this when using local art.

[abarisain]

Pretty sure it's an old limitation of the MPD protocol.

For local cover art, MPDroid needs the file path, and that's not available until you open an album, where MPDroid uses the first tracks's path (after all, an album can be in multiple folders)

I don't know if the protocol has been updated to allow me to fix this

[stephen304]

Could there perhaps be an update all button in the overflow menu that will fetch all the album info? Or perhaps a setting that loads whatever is in view? I set this app up for my dad as a parent-proof music player and he's been going around pressing on every album just to load the art (I ripped hundreds for him). Otherwise this app has been great for him - mpd+Linux is much more reliable than iTunes + iTunes remote, which always gets messed up on our headless Mac mini due to updates.

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[stephen304]

Actually I just found out that the app already supports auto fetching the album art - it just relies on having the MPD database cached via the option Settings > Library Settings > Use Album Cache.

Maybe it should have a note below that option mentioning the loading of album images.

[abarisain]

To be fair, MPDroid isn't actively developed anymore.

I do know that the album cache suffers from some bugs

[stephen304]

I could tell it wasn't very active. Though I like to file bugs anyways in case someone with time and energy comes along.

In this case I don't think there's any real bug, just wording and documentation that could be improved. So if I come up with any wording change for the app, I'll make a PR. And I may make a note in the wiki about enabling MPD database cache.

[hurzl]

I always thought the album cache should be enabled by default. I never had problems with it.

[abarisain]

I think the max command size issue (when not configured in mpd) prevented us to ship it by default?

Anyway, documentation is welcome, but I doubt I'll release a new version of the app even if you kindly send a PR for that

[hurzl]

Maybe it was max_output_buffer_size (for all albums list?) - the only value I have set in mpd.conf.

[abarisain]

That's it