iTunes plugin randomly not showing cover art

[Bijan]

I noticed that the iTunes plugin when accessing the album will
sometimes (randomly) not show the cover art of an album.

I only see a blue disc.

Anyone else?

[Rob McBroom]

I used to assign the correct album to all my Music Videos, but it
seems that both apple and the iTunes plugin for QS assume no one would
do this. Album art would sometimes not show up in QS and when I tried
to play an album that had a music video associated with it, the album
would start playing on a random track. Removing the "album" tag from
all my Music Videos seems to have fixed all my problems.

--
Rob McBroom
<http://www.skurfer.com/>

The magnitude of a problem does not affect its ownership.

[sudo]

On Apr 23, 3:36 pm, Rob McBroom <mailingli...@skurfer.com> wrote: 
> Removing the "album" tag from all my Music Videos seems to have fixed all my problems.

I have the same problem as Rob regarding QS not showing the music
videos' art,
but I don't get how did he solve it. Where should I remove that tag?

[Rob McBroom]

I've never seen it show the art for Music Videos. That wasn't the
problem.

The problem was that it didn't show art for an *album* if the album
included one or more videos (along with the usual audio tracks). So I
basically edit the info for each music video and set the album to
blank. I've recently set the album for all videos to "Music Videos" to
get rid of all that "unknown album" nonsense, but there may be
unwanted side-effects that I haven't encountered yet, so I can't
recommend it.

[Rob McBroom]

On Oct 6, 2012, at 2:48 AM, cjw333 <cjw...@gmail.com> wrote:

I wrote up this post which might help you out:

http://cjw333.blogspot.com/2010/03/mystery-solved-embedding-images-into.html

although recently I seem to be having another problem with Quicksilver showing iTunes album art properly.

I'm running QS v ß70 (3935)

and v 2.1.6 of the iTunes Module

I'm in search of a fix.

The problems discussed were from 2009. A lot has changed since then, including a massive overhaul of the iTunes plug-in. None of those problems really apply any more. Music Videos are fully supported and all artwork is taken from the OS (specifically, the QuickLook system). In 2006, the OS didn’t know anything about album covers. Now it does, so the plug-in doesn’t need code to figure that out. I’m pretty sure this even applies to artwork that iTunes downloads, but inexplicably doesn’t stick into the ID3 Tags. Not that you’d ever want to store the artwork that way.

FYI, I just drag the artwork from http://www.slothradio.com/covers/ to the iTunes window. As you say in your post, doing this correctly embeds the artwork into the file.

As for artwork not appearing with the current release of the iTunes plug-in, in almost all cases, if you can see it in Finder and/or with QuickLook, you’ll see it in Quicksilver. If not, there was probably a recent change to those files that hasn’t worked its way though all the various places where icons are cached. I see random places where artwork doesn’t appear that I can’t explain, but in at least once case, running “Clear Custom Icon” (from the File Attribute Actions plug-in) has fixed that.

Off topic: You also complain that ratings aren’t embedded in the files’ metadata. Ratings are subjective and have more to do with the listener that the track. This is why iTunes (correctly) stores ratings in your library and not with the track itself.

[cjw333]

Hi Rob,

Thanks for taking the time to read my post and to reply.  Also, thanks for the plugin.  I use it every day and it's one of the main reasons I use Quicksilver.

I found that the problem was not in fact with your plugin or with Quicksilver, as you stated, but was cased by iTunes.  I found that the mp3s in the finder were also showing a generic icon.

It took some searching but I found this thread which offered a solution that worked for me.  Deleting my Voice Memos in the iTunes library and restarting iTunes did the trick.  Album covers are now appearing again in the Finder and working properly with your plugin.

I agree with your comment about ratings being embedded in the mp3 metadata.  I just fear ever having to recover/rebuild my iTunes library and lose all of that work.  I guess that's what constant backups are for.

Thanks again for your reply.  Also, I appreciate the link to Sloth.  I usually use Discogs but Sloth looks like another great source.

- Chris

[Rob McBroom]

On Nov 11, 2012, at 2:49 AM, cjw333 <cjw...@gmail.com> wrote:

It took some searching but I found this thread which offered a solution that worked for me.  Deleting my Voice Memos in the iTunes library and restarting iTunes did the trick.  Album covers are now appearing again in the Finder and working properly with your plugin.

That’s a weird one. For me, it’s always one random track here and there. “Clear Custom Icon” has always taken care of it so far.