If Gonic can't locate cover/folder.jpg in a folder, use the first image from that folder instead

[awsms]

Title sums it all!

[sentriz]

not sure its a great idea. I don't like unexpected behavior personally. are there any filenames you would like to add to the list of acceptable cover art filenames?

[awsms]

There are a bunch of known templates,
"Albumname.jpg" or "Artist - Albumname.jpg" for EAC rips,
"R-digits-digits.jp(e)g" for discogs,
"00-.*.jpg" for scene releases

I reach the point where a third of my music collection doesn't have an artwork image because of this

[sentriz]

good point 👍

[awsms]

On a related note, what do you think about parsing (the first track of a folder's) attached images in the tags?
In case Gonic couldn't find a cover image in the folder of course.

[sentriz]

there's an issue tracking that one #11

[gerroon]

Can Gonic grab cover images from the songs as well? It would be nice if it can't find a album image in the folder, it just grabs from the first song that has embedded image.

[sentriz]

there's an issue tracking that one #11

[s-fleck]

Just wanted to +1 this. I know unexpected behavior is something that's not a comfortable idea from a programmers perspective... however.:

• i'm pretty sure it's possible to come up with heuristics that display the "best" cover in 99% of the cases
• even if the wrong image is displayed, that's probably still nicer from an UX perspective then none at all! It still gives you a visual clue.

I prioritizing the following regex patterns (in that order) would already work pretty well:

1. folder.*
2. cover.*
3. front.*
4. .*cover.*
5. .*front.*
6. 00.*
7. .*scan.*
8. any image file

if there are several matches for one pattern, always take the first one (sorted alphabetically).

This does not account for:

• Subfolders (Artwork, Covers, Scans) - probably a bit more complicated i assume?
• Images from the tags (not sure if they are supported, if not they should probably have pretty high priority? just under folder.*?)

[awsms]

Is there any interest from the dev to implement this?