Artist image not showing if the artist also appears in a compilation.

[nonylours]

Hi, I have a few issues with the new artists image feature.

My music is organized like this:

Artists
/music/artist A/artist.jpg
/music/artist A/album A/artist A - song.mp3

Compilations
/music/various artists/compilation A/artist A - song.mp3 (Album artist tag is “Various Artists”, Artist tag is “Artist A”)

In Symfonium, the artist A image won’t be displayed if the artist also appears in a compilation.

I don’t know where LMS is looking for the image. The log just throws a 404 error:
2024-01-06 14:03:12 [2024-Jan-06 05:03:12.695] 1 - [info] "wthttp: 172.17.0.1 GET /rest/getCoverArt.view?id=ar-695&u=X&p=X&v=1.13.0&c=Symfonium&f=json HTTP/1.1 404 0"

I don’t know if it’s related, but I also have an issue with albums with several artists:

/music/artist A/artist.jpg
/music/artist A/album A/artist A - song.mp3
/music/artist A/album A/artist B - song.mp3 (Album artist tag is “Artist A”. Artist tag is “Artist B”. Artist B doesn’t appear anywhere else in the library.)

For artist B, Symfonium will show Artist A image.

Thanks.

[epoupon]

Hello!
Indeed LMS tries to find the artist.jpg file in the longest common path of all the files that belong to the artist (in your case /music/)
If it does not find something, it will try in each folder that holds at least a music file for this artist (in your case /music/artist A/album A/ and /music/various artists/compilation A/)

Maybe we can change the later to look for an artist file in all parent paths, but I am afraid about bringing even more problems? (but various artists should not have an artist file)

[nonylours]

I tried putting artist.jpg in one of the album folders, and it showed up. Thanks.

Maybe LMS could use the album artist tag to search for artist.jpg? Or only check files where the artist tag and album artist tag are the same? In my case, LMS would only search in /music/artist A/. This would also solve the second issue with guest artists.

[epoupon]

Indeed that makes sense to only check for album artists