Album Art isn't sent to Chromecast device since Build 912

[GeilerHeinz]

Since updating to Build 912 Album Art isn't sent to Chromecast device no more.

I'm experiencing this on an Lenovo Tab TB-8705F with Android 10.

Regards

[maxmp]

I can’t reproduce this with either 912 or 914, but the underlying cast libs and dependencies were upgraded and anything can happen.

Does it happen for all tracks or some specific ones? What is the chromecast device?

[GeilerHeinz]

It happens with all tracks and also streams. The Chromecast devices are two Harman Kardon Citation 500 and one Citation 300.

Regards

By the way I also tested Chromecast streaming with Spotify. There album art is sent to the devices. 

[GeilerHeinz]

I just tested streaming to my Chromecast stick plugged to the smart TV. It works fine, album art is sent to the TV. 

Regards 

[andrewilley]

I've just checked with my old Chromecast 1 plugged into a TV, using a Galaxy A70 Android 11 and PA build 914. Album art displays correctly on the TV as I change tracks. I tried about 100 songs randomly (some with properly embedded art, some with PA downloaded images) and everything worked fine. I did find one single song (with downloaded art) that showed as blank initially during skipping through, but it worked when I manually selected the track. I put it down to some sort of random file or caching issue. Looks like it might be something specific to your devices, which would be hard to track down.

Are the images embedded or downloaded for your songs? Do you have Settings -> Audio -> Output -> Chromecast Output -> Force Send Album Art enabled?

Andre

[GeilerHeinz]

Thanks Andre. Force Send Album Art did the trick. Before I only tried checking/unchecking the different options in settings -> album art -> advanced tweaks. 

Regards 

[andrewilley]

@GeilerHeinz Excellent. Not all Chomecast devices transmit the correct announcements to say that they can handle images, and that setting overrides what they say they can handle and sends the artwork anyway.

Andre