Artist Images

[holycow131415]

Hi,

I use lidarr. I have had it organize my library and retag all of my library. I use Symfonium. My albums have images just fine through the metadata without any extra files. All my artists don't have any images. In Lidarr, I can enable it to generate artist.nfo and artist images. I've tested with the band "10 years". My library is artist > album > songs. It created artist.nfo and 4 images (one of them named the supported folder.jpg). All this did was create a separate Artist page with the image only viewable in the "All Artists" section because there are no albums associated with this Artist page. This leaves the real URL server/artist/mbid/b18bc9c4-6f22-4f1b-a918-e9c86a39fe7a without an image.

As a test, I deleted the artist.nfo file, and renamed the folder.jpg to the mbzid.jpg, and also artist.jpg. Both renames work, but this is manual work. I also do not want to create a custom.config file just to make folder.jpg default. I assume this will overwrite my already configured settings in LMS. A lot of people use lidarr, so I think it would benefit to add folder.jpg as a default as well.

A closing question... if i were to comment EVERYTHING unrelated to the artist-image in the custom.config file, will LMS continue to work and just change the below?

artist-image-file-names = ("artist", "folder");

[epoupon]

Hello!

AFAIU from your setup, this should already work, so could you please provide more details on the artist.nfo file generate by lidarr?

• where is it stored exactly?
• what are the files put in the folder where artist.nfo is saved?
• what is the exact content of this artist.nfo file?

It looks like your audio files are tagged using the musicbrainz identifiers?

For your closing question: yes, lms should work with an empty config. It fallbacks internally on the values set in the default provided lms.conf file (edit: these fallbacks are hardcoded, no actual file is read)

[holycow131415]

artist.nfo is being stored in each artist folder. My library root folder is "Music". Then each artist has its own folder. artist > album > songs

In a perfect scenario it looks like lidarr generates 5 files into the artist folder.... artist.nfo, banner.jpg, clearlogo.png, fanart.jpg and folder.jpg. fanart.jpg and folder.jpg are pics of the band. I tried 2 other bands, and one of them only generated artist.nfo and clearlogo.png. I guess it just depends what is in musicbrainz.

This creates new artist pages in LMS that aren't connected to albums. The link is like http://URL/artist/222

The following 2 artists have all the files i mentioned.

Here is what is in All That Remains artist.nfo
<artist> <name>All That Remains</name> <rating>10.0</rating> <musicbrainzartistid>4f8b7186-b2a2-40db-97ae-6e1cd46d57b1</musicbrainzartistid> <biography>All That Remains is an American heavy metal band from Springfield, Massachusetts, formed in 1998. They have released ten studio albums, a live CD and DVD, and have sold over a million records worldwide. The group currently consists of vocalist Philip Labonte, rhythm guitarist Mike Martin, bassist Matt Deis and drummer Anthony Barone, with Labonte being the last remaining original member. In spite of this, the band's line-up had remained consistent from the release of 2008's Overcome until 2015's The Order of Things, spanning four albums. This line-up changed, however, in September 2015, when long-time bassist Jeanne Sagan left the band, with Aaron Patrick taking her place, and then again in February 2019, when the band confirmed that Jason Richardson would be joining the band to replace the deceased lead guitarist and original member, Oli Herbert. Patrick would be replaced in 2022 by Matt Deis.</biography> <outline>All That Remains is an American heavy metal band from Springfield, Massachusetts, formed in 1998. They have released ten studio albums, a live CD and DVD, and have sold over a million records worldwide. The group currently consists of vocalist Philip Labonte, rhythm guitarist Mike Martin, bassist Matt Deis and drummer Anthony Barone, with Labonte being the last remaining original member. In spite of this, the band's line-up had remained consistent from the release of 2008's Overcome until 2015's The Order of Things, spanning four albums. This line-up changed, however, in September 2015, when long-time bassist Jeanne Sagan left the band, with Aaron Patrick taking her place, and then again in February 2019, when the band confirmed that Jason Richardson would be joining the band to replace the deceased lead guitarist and original member, Oli Herbert. Patrick would be replaced in 2022 by Matt Deis.</outline> </artist>

Here is 36 Crazyfists
<artist> <name>36 Crazyfists</name> <rating>8.0</rating> <musicbrainzartistid>781167d7-b9e5-48ea-9f66-67c4a6739562</musicbrainzartistid> <biography>36 Crazyfists was an American metalcore band formed in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1994. The band's name comes from the Hong Kong martial arts film The 36 Crazy Fists (1977). To date they have released eight studio albums.</biography> <outline>36 Crazyfists was an American metalcore band formed in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1994. The band's name comes from the Hong Kong martial arts film The 36 Crazy Fists (1977). To date they have released eight studio albums.</outline> </artist>

lidarr uses MBZ so yeah all my files were retagged with lidarr. How to confirm the retagging gave whats needed...I dont know?

[epoupon]

I am afraid this is because lms expects musicBrainzArtistID (notice how the case is not the same).
Could you edit one artist.nfo file by hand and change musicbrainzartistid to musicBrainzArtistID, and then trigger a scan to confirm?
As a workaround, there is an option in the admin panel to allow merging artists that have MBIDs with artists that don't. Maybe it should be enabled by default...

[holycow131415]

Yes manually editing musicBrainzArtistID tag fixed it.

What do you mean by admin panel? While logged in, the Settings in LMS i don't see this option for merging.

[epoupon]

Here:

And:

[holycow131415]

Ah ok, this merge setting did work. So looks like I have 2 options which i think i need both for metadata and image since fanart.jpg is not a default supported image. I've deployed LMS with the custom.config file with everything deleted except for

`# File names for artist images (order is important, accept wildcards)

Note: files whose name is the artist's MBID are always searched before the names in this list. You can place the MBID files anywhere in your libraries.

artist-image-file-names = ("folder", "fanart", "artist");`

And now the merge setting in Scan Settings is set too.

I think this'll help people if they look here. Thx! I think I can now fully migrate over from JF to this app.

[epoupon]

Unfortunately, lms uses an internal hardcoded name list for the files that are in the artist.nfo folder (thumb, folder). I guess it works for you since the info file is in a common parent directory of the artist's albums. But I will add fanart into this list and expose it in lms.conf.
And I will also make the musicBrainzArtistID lookup case insensitive. With these two changes, it should be fine, meaning no need to change default settings.

[epoupon]

@holycow131415 now done in #750. Will be available for the next release