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