BernieGames Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 I noticed a lot of the album art Musicbox sourced was quite low, 200x200px. I downloaded some higher quality album art and replaced the art in the cache folder, but instead it simply re-downloaded the lower quality image. It seems to refuse to use the art I put in there. Is there a way to force Musicbox to use high quality artwork? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernieGames Posted November 10, 2018 Author Share Posted November 10, 2018 Don't worry. Worked it out. It only likes .png. Once I converted my .jpg to .png they worked. Maybe we could make jpg a valid filetype for album art? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 I dont believe Musicbox downloads album cover art, it just uses the artwork from the album folder, so it is just using what you already have in that folder, its not actually downloading any. I think i'm right in saying that it downloads Artist images, but not album covers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernieGames Posted November 10, 2018 Author Share Posted November 10, 2018 If that is the case it is definitely doing some sort of conversion on the album art then. I tested it out. I downloaded some nice high quality album art in JPG format. Converted the high quality 1000x1000px album art to png and replaced the art in the album art cache folder. I then removed and re-added the library folder and the art looked great. After backing up my image folder I clicked refresh image on some album art. On every album I 'refreshed' the file in the cache folder was replaced with a 200x200px version of the art. It looks terrible. Some similar stuff was happening with the artist art as well, I ended up replacing that manually too. I'm running on a 43" 4K TV, so low quality art looks like balls on my screen. On the plus side as long as I don't refresh the art manually, it seems to leave my art files alone which is good. I would have for it to automatically downgrade my art everytime it scanned my library. Maybe someone who knows for sure could clarify how the art works in Musicbox? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 On 11/10/2018 at 5:44 AM, BernieGames said: If that is the case it is definitely doing some sort of conversion on the album art then. I tested it out. I downloaded some nice high quality album art in JPG format. Converted the high quality 1000x1000px album art to png and replaced the art in the album art cache folder. I then removed and re-added the library folder and the art looked great. After backing up my image folder I clicked refresh image on some album art. On every album I 'refreshed' the file in the cache folder was replaced with a 200x200px version of the art. It looks terrible. Some similar stuff was happening with the artist art as well, I ended up replacing that manually too. I'm running on a 43" 4K TV, so low quality art looks like balls on my screen. On the plus side as long as I don't refresh the art manually, it seems to leave my art files alone which is good. I would have for it to automatically downgrade my art everytime it scanned my library. Maybe someone who knows for sure could clarify how the art works in Musicbox? @neil9000 is correct; MBA does not download album art currently. However, what I believe is happening is that MBA is using the artwork that is in your music file tags instead of the artwork file that you're expecting. You can fix this by using a program like Mp3tag or similar to change the image that is in the file tags. In the future we can provide more options for this stuff though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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