To try and make sense of this album art business, I carried out a fresh install of Muzecast on my desktop and the 2 Fire HDXs that I have been using. I deleted all Musecast files on the desktop and the apps and also cleared the caches and downloads on the tablets.
1) Despite the fact that on the Muzecast Configurator I unticked all the boxes relating to the finding of album art, album art from places other than my files was sourced from the internet and applied to a number of albums.
This problem needs addressing. The thing is, as I mention above, even if I add my own album art later the unauthorised album art applied by Muzecast will still show in album view.
2) I find it rather odd that in album view the album art only appears to show, at least for the first time, when you scroll down to the albums in question and wait a few seconds. Given that I have 979 albums that's a lot of scrolling!
3) I downloaded 11 albums. In album view, the album art shows on 9 of them. However, far more importantly, the album art only displays on the now playing screen on 2 albums when the album is being played.
This is another issue that really does need addressing.
4) When playing music files normally the album art is taking a very long time to load. As an example, I started playing an album. I waited until all songs were cached (I checked by looking at the playlist that can be accessed). I then went offline. There are 12 tracks on the album. All music was correctly cached and played correctly. However, album art only displayed on the first 8 tracks. Incidentally, you can see this by looking at the album art on the playlist I mention above. Actually, I only obtained that much album art by cycling through the first few tracks. Had I just stayed on the first track then I'd have been lucky to get 2 or 3 tracks with the album art. This is something I noted the other day, that to get the album art to kick in for the entire album one often has to fast forward through the tracks usually until you're around halfway through the album.
It might seem that I really dislike Muzecast. That is not so. It has many admirable qualities. I'm simply pointing out the flaws that I see and find irritating.
Update:
Another issue. I deleted all downloaded tracks in the appropriate place ("Remove downloaded songs"). As a result all album art has now disappeared from Album view. Surely that's something that should not occur.
And yes, it is slowly refreshing.
Update 2:
1) I have noted that whenever the library is updated (every single time anything is altered in the library) the album covers are lost in album view until the library refreshes which takes seemingly forever. In other words the album view in terms of artwork is more or less redundant. One can't even resort to a list view because there isn't one.
2) I have also noticed that the options you provide in the Muzecast Configurator have no meaning and even if one takes the tick out of the box "Search Web for Missing Artwork" the program still searches for art. Even when I have attached the artwork in the tags the program has often still searched the web for artwork in some cases finding a number of alternatives (I didn't discover one that I would have used). Why is this happening? In any event, I'm not surprised that your program is so very slow in loading artwork.
Edited by user Sunday, July 2, 2017 11:37:21 AM(UTC)
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