Hi Chris,
Any chance of support for:
Coverart1=drive:\directory\artist - album.jpg
Well, anything is of course possible...
I wasn't aware anyone actually stored album covers in this fashion. I guess I would need to account for all of these possibilities:
drive:\directory\artist - album.jpg
drive:\directory\artist\album.jpg
drive:\directory\song.jpg
drive:\directory\artist - song.jpg
Seems like I did a poll on this subject way back when and the only way anyone seemed to be storing album covers was in the folder with the music. Right now, during indexing, when I first enter a folder I grab an image based on the art rules, and then I apply that to all songs found in the folder. What I would have to do in this case is once I find the album and artist, look through the alternate folder for a match. This, of course, takes extra work and slows down the indexer, whch is why I didn't bother if no one organized their collection this way.
What I would probably do if I needed to implement this would be to have an ArtFolder parameter that you could set to drive:\directory, preindex all images in that folder and its subfolders, and then for each song, look for artist - album.jpg, artist\album.jpg, song.jpg, etc. within that pre-index. If you don't have an ArtFolder, you don't really lose performance because the size of the preindex is 0 and the extra searches never happen.
So is anyone actually storing their art this way? If so, is there a particular reason (i.e. this is how MusicMatch or iTunes or something stores the art)?
Thanks!
--Chris