Rowar said

Hello arginine,

1. RaspyFi use MPD to play music. MPD is configured to list all music from /var/lib/mpd/music. So it doesn't matter if you have a NAS or a USB drive connected. Both sources will be symlinked to this folder automatically, if you use the Webinterface of RaspyFi.
2. The path /var/www/ is the standard webserver path of Linux. I just added an subfolder, so i doesn't mess up the built in Web-Interface structure. You can also name the new webserver path "covers" (/var/www/covers). The built in webserver nginx will delivers the covers, if you query them correctly.

Some background infos: Mpod knows from MPD which file is actually played. It retrieves from MPD the indirect path and query the webserver with the same path for the cover Art e.g.

• By MPD played song: /var/lib/mpd/music/NAS/Library/Artist/Album/Song.flac
• Mpod knows only the indirect path: NAS/Library/Artist/Album/
• For the Cover Art Mpod just add the configured URL and the filename of the Cover Art: http://[Your RaspyFi IP]/Music/NAS/Library/Artist/Album/folder.jpg

We just symlinked the whole MPD music path. So the webserver of RaspyFi delivers correctly the covers. There is no overhead, because no webserver script is running. Mpod is quering the covers only one time and stores them in the local cache together to the Artist, Album and Song informations. That makes Mpod so blazing fast for scroling and filtering.
Sorry for my bad english. If something is not understandable feel free to ask again, i try to rephrase/explain it again.

Thanks Rowar, the /var/www/covers link works perfectly with mpdroid. The setting in the mpdroid client for the cover path should be set as /covers though. Regards,

1. RaspyFi use MPD to play music. MPD is configured to list all music from /var/lib/mpd/music. So it doesn't matter if you have a NAS or a USB drive connected. Both sources will be symlinked to this folder automatically, if you use the Webinterface of RaspyFi.
2. The path /var/www/ is the standard webserver path of Linux. I just added an subfolder, so i doesn't mess up the built in Web-Interface structure. You can also name the new webserver path "covers" (/var/www/covers). The built in webserver nginx will delivers the covers, if you query them correctly.

Some background infos: Mpod knows from MPD which file is actually played. It retrieves from MPD the indirect path and query the webserver with the same path for the cover Art e.g.

• By MPD played song: /var/lib/mpd/music/NAS/Library/Artist/Album/Song.flac
• Mpod knows only the indirect path: NAS/Library/Artist/Album/
• For the Cover Art Mpod just add the configured URL and the filename of the Cover Art: http://[Your RaspyFi IP]/Music/NAS/Library/Artist/Album/folder.jpg

We just symlinked the whole MPD music path. So the webserver of RaspyFi delivers correctly the covers. There is no overhead, because no webserver script is running. Mpod is quering the covers only one time and stores them in the local cache together to the Artist, Album and Song informations. That makes Mpod so blazing fast for scroling and filtering.

Sorry for my bad english. If something is not understandable feel free to ask again, i try to rephrase/explain it again.

Thanks for this post !!

two things :
- Does your music is on a NAS connected to raspyfi or your music is on an usb drive ? (by reading your post I understood that your music is in /var/lib/mpd/music)

- from where this /var/www/Music is coming from (nginx?)

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On RaspyFi:
1. SSH on RaspyFi
2. ln -s /var/lib/mpd/music /var/www/Music

On Mpod:
1. Configured players -> [Your Player] -> Advanced:
2. Local Cover Art -> URL: http://[Your RaspyFi IP]/Music (example: http://192.168.178.11/Music)
3. Local Cover Art -> Cover Filename: [Your picture name] (example: folder.jpg)
4. Save -> Done. Restart Mpod completely

The Cover Filename is case sensitive. However you need your library sorted by albums and in each album directory one picture for the Album Art.

I encounter some blank Album Arts in the "Artist" and the "Album" section. In "Now Playing" and "Song" all covers are displayed correctly. I think it's becaues a problem with "Varios Artists" and some strange album titles.

I hope it helps somebody...

did you were using MPOD before (and manage to see the covers) ?

Can you post your modified nginx conf ? I would be very interested

I would like the same help, I am using mpod and it cannot fetch the local artwork.

I have symlinked the folder where my music is stored to the webdirectory, and set up nginx to autoindex those files so mpod can filter through to find the folder.jpg's.

I can filter through using a regular browser but mpod will not pick them up. Do the folder.jpg covers have to be a certain size to show up in mpod maybe?

Thanks

I would like the same help, I am using mpod and it cannot fetch the local artwork.

I have symlinked the folder where my music is stored to the webdirectory, and set up nginx to autoindex those files so mpod can filter through to find the folder.jpg's.

I can filter through using a regular browser but mpod will not pick them up. Do the folder.jpg covers have to be a certain size to show up in mpod maybe?

Thanks

antonybunn said

I'm having the same issues, all my albums contain folder.jpg but neither mpdroid, mpad or mpod can fetch local artwork.

Sorry for the stupid question but have you tried following mpdroid instructions?

http://www.raspyfi.com/forum/r.....elivery-1/

Regards,

EDIT: just realised you are not using it... maybe instructions may help.

No help there from me sorry. I have no idea about previous version of raspyfi but there is a file called /var/www/inc/coverart.php which looks like a flac tag parser and last fm coverart fetcher.

Regards,

peter.

There is one thing I cannot figure out is the "WebServer for CoverArt Delivery" : this would make MPOD and MPAD nicer by providing the local address of the music folder (mounted from a NAS) which is containing the music files and the music covers. Then covers will be displyed in MPOD/MPAD. I've used the fantastic apple scripts from http://dougscripts.com/itunes/ to generate the cover.jpg files in each of my music folders.

In Raspyfi beta, I install lighttpd to "serve" the music folder and it works like a charm. I would like to not adding lighttpd on the top of raspyfi : it's not clean solution. I noticed that the covers could be retrieved from Amazon in MPOD and MPAD but this is not working very well and it makes mistakes for old music and I prefer to handle the covers myself.

So in the Raspyfi final, my guess for having the "WebServer for CoverArt Delivery" working is "just" adding correctly a server block in nginx (i've tried without any success).

Any input from a nginx expert would be appreciated or if someone find out how to have this "WebServer for CoverArt Delivery " feature working on Raspyfi final ... thanks to let me know

Francis