Updating all Artist/Album art at once

[Igor Kvasha]

It would be great to have a button that updates all the artist/album art all at once.

Because when setting up a new device it takes quite a while to get art for everything, and some albums take several days for that.

 

[andrewilley]

PA only tries to download artwork when it is asked to display something (for example by opening a particular list) for which there is no existing image. To try to download everything in one go could become a hugely wasteful process in terms of slowing down device performance and network usage.

You do know you can bring existing cached images over from your previous setup don't you? PA Settings=>Export/Import Settings/Data.

Andre

[Igor Kvasha]

10 minutes ago, andrewilley said:

PA only tries to download artwork when it is asked to display something (for example by opening a particular list) for which there is no existing image. To try to download everything in one go could become a hugely wasteful process in terms of slowing down device performance and network usage.

You do know you can bring existing cached images over from your previous setup don't you? PA Settings=>Export/Import Settings/Data.

Andre

Hey Andre, thank you for the response.

Now I know, but if I'm on Wifi and have a charger nearby, it would be simpler and quicker for me to just download all in one go over 10-20 minutes. 

So that if I don't have access to a good connection, I can have art for albums that I haven't opened up. 

[Igor Kvasha]

On 7/1/2022 at 1:30 PM, andrewilley said:

PA only tries to download artwork when it is asked to display something (for example by opening a particular list) for which there is no existing image. To try to download everything in one go could become a hugely wasteful process in terms of slowing down device performance and network usage.

You do know you can bring existing cached images over from your previous setup don't you? PA Settings=>Export/Import Settings/Data.

Andre

Heya Andre. I wanna re-request this feature. Because the app doesn't reliably download music art when opening artists/albums. I have albums that don't have art even though they've been open several times already.  

 

I'm fine with loading my network and slowing down the device while it's downloading all the art. 

[Igor Kvasha]

It's still something I care about. So Bump

[LPW00]

Honestly, if that's something you have to deal with more often, you should just get a tag editor and imbed the artwork in your files. You do that once (and you can use the images PA already downloaded for you, they're in Android/data/com.maxmpz.audioplayer/files/selected_aa) and then you'll never have to deal with this again.