Re: [Gtkpod-questions] Failed to set cover art

[redondos <red...@gm...>]

On Thu, Aug 24 11:57, Todd Zullinger wrote:
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> Oliver wrote:
> > I was just wondering, since I do have an iPod nano (thus color), how
> > the artwork scanner works, the examples show %a or 'folder' now the
> > %a I get, but since the few cover arts i do have are messy at best
> > right now, I'd just want gtkpod to use whatever jpg it finds in the
> > directory. So i tried '*ront*', '*', and '' but didn't seem to do
> > anything at all ... I was guessing that 'folder' ment the same name
> > of the folder.jpg, but as I mentioned, I don't want to rename
> > everything just to make gtkpod happy : )
> >
> > Example:
> > Jem_-_Finally_Woken/Jem_-_Finally_Woken_(Front).jpg or
> > Jem_-_Finally_Woken/00._Jem_-_Finally_Woken_(Back).jpg
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> I don't think that the template will expand shell wildcards.  You
> could create symlinks pretty easily though.  I haven't checked, but
> once you add them to the ipod you may be able to delete them.

Are there no plans of implementing filename expansion whatsoever? (I
know, patches are welcome :)

> Something like this in a bash shell (untested):
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> find /path/to/music -iname '*front*.jpg' | while read art; do
>     pushd $(dirname "$art")
>     ln -s $(basename "$art") folder.jpg
>     popd
> done
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> If you wanted, you could just rename the files that way and clean them
> up all at once.  If you were doing that, you might want to use
> something other than folder.jpg, perhaps cover_front.jpg.  You could
> then do the same thing for back covers.  Just edit the artwork
> template to match what you use for front covers then.

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redondos