Issue with fanart in Music Jukebox on server/shared storage (FW V2.0.6)

[Biedjee]

Hi,

First off, congrats on the wonderful Music Jukebox features. Great feat!

Unfortunately I ran into a little snag when using fanart in subfolders on my network drive.

I am using FW V2.0.6, default mede8er skin and I have my music collection on a shared network drive. Music root folder contains the tagscanner script, is scanned and added to favourites.
The typical tree is as follows:

Network/public/music/artist/album/

Both in the artist folder and album folder I have placed a fanart.jpg and this works great.
However, some albums, with multiple discs, have one additional level:

Network/public/music/artist/album/disc 1/

In this case, the fanart shows fine, but when I start playing a song, the fanart disappears the moment the folder.jpg is loaded in the music player.

Then, if I press the stop button, and use X to go back to the previous level, the fanart is displayed again when I reach the album level.
However, if I don't press the stop button, but use X while the music keeps playing, the player will give a purple screen and crash (song plays until the end, after which player stops responding).

The above happens when I don't run in Jukebox mode (unfortunately Jukebox mode doesn't do it for me, I need my own sorting system). If I run in Jukebox mode the system doesn't crash, but fanart isn't displayed either at this level.

I remember for the previous Mede8er I had that the videowall feature was limited to 3 levels on a network share. The 'disc 1' folder would be the fourth level from music root, so this could be a cause.

Please let me know if there is a fix,

Cheers,

Bart

[jer1956]

fanart has to be in the folder containing the music...so if you now have a parent, and two child folders..all three need the fanart.

[Biedjee]

fanart has to be in the folder containing the music...so if you now have a parent, and two child folders..all three need the fanart.

Yes, that is what I have. And doing the same for a fourth level crashes the system...

[Maasbommel]

Are you using embedded coverart or using only folder.jpg coverart?
Is the coverart big of size?

[Biedjee]

Are you using embedded coverart or using only folder.jpg coverart?
Is the coverart big of size?

Nope. No embedded art. The fanart.jpg is 1280x720, 115kb, the folder.jpg is 250x250, 12kb, so quite small files, me thinks.

So to recap:

- jukebox mode is off
- issue happens at fourth level from music root
- fanart displays, but disappears as soon as music starts playing (and default skin shows instead)
- using X button while music plays crashes the system

I tried it at different folders/albums to make sure the files aren't corrupted and the results are always the same.

[jer1956]

The system wasn't designed for non jukebox activities.  So if you set up  for jukebox..you would only have fanart in folders containing the muisc..becuase the other levels are just storage structure.

what haapens if you only have fanart in the diks1/disk2 folders using jukebox?

[Biedjee]

The system wasn't designed for non jukebox activities.  So if you set up  for jukebox..you would only have fanart in folders containing the muisc..becuase the other levels are just storage structure.

what haapens if you only have fanart in the diks1/disk2 folders using jukebox?

As stated above, in jukebox mode fanart is not displayed either, though system doesn't crash.

And again, whether by design or not, the feature works perfect up to three levels deep (music/artist/album).

Another thought, if it is not related to the folder structure, could it be the fact that my music collection is perhaps above average size? (15000+ tracks / 1200+ album in FLAC format, 1.5 TB in total).

My best attempt to explain the structure of my network. In below example album 1 works as it is supposed to and album 2/disk 1 crashes the system the moment I start playing track3:

Music folder
-- Artist1 folder
   fanart.jpg
   folder.jpg
   -- album1 folder
       fanart.jpg
       folder.jpg
       track1.flac
       track2.flac
   -- album2 folder
       fanart.jpg
       folder.jpg
       -- disk folder
           fanart.jpg
           folder.jpg
           track3.flac
           track4.flac

etc etc      

thanks

[Biedjee]

Another update:

I did some more tests, trying to recreate the issue and monitoring what happens with my PC.

1. the issue only occurs when there are both a folder.jpg and fanart.jpg in the folder
2. When Mede8er crashes, the fanart.jpg gets deleted

so... no sure if that is desired behaviour either.