1 #+date: <2016-10-03 21:33:50 +0800>
2 #+title: Generating album art on N9.
4 For unknown reasons, the Music application on my Nokia N9 does not
5 always display the album cover where expected. Instead, it displays the
6 artist name and album title. Reports by other users of this phone
7 suggest this isn't an uncommon issue, but offer no /confirmed/ insight
8 in the root cause of the problem unfortunately.
10 Fortunately, the symptoms of this problem are relatively easy to fix on
13 In =~/.cache/media-art= on the phone, copy the album art (in a JPEG
14 file) to a file named using the following format:
17 album-$(echo -n "artist name" | md5sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1)-$(echo -n "album name" | md5sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1).jpeg
20 Replace =artist name= and =album name= with the appropriate values for
21 the album, in small caps (lowercase).
24 [[https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/DraftSpecs/MediaArtStorageSpec?action=show&redirect=MediaArtStorageSpec][Media
27 Luckily, in most cases the above is not necessary and it suffices to
28 store the cover picture as =cover.jpg= in the album's directory in