Banshee does not show Album art with missing "Album" tag

[Ibrahim]

Binary package hint: banshee

Banshee does not show album art. My music library has its album art stored in ID3 tags, upon importing my library to Banshee it did not show any album art. I tried setting the album art again using track editor ans selecting 'Choose New Album Art' option, but still I dont see anything. I just see default icons in the lower left cover art area, the track editor and the album grid.

I tried reinstalling banshee from ppa:/banshee-team/banshee-unstable still nothing.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: banshee 2.0.0-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Apr 16 18:45:20 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110330)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: banshee
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Giuseppe Terrasi (giuseppeterrasi-deactivatedaccount)]

I can confirm on banshee_2.0.0-2ubuntu1_i386.deb.

Impossible to add a cover art with drag and drop from nautilus or with right click and "Choose new cover art".

[Giuseppe Terrasi (giuseppeterrasi-deactivatedaccount)]

Related to comment above I attach apport-cli banshee

$:~ banshee
[Info 14:52:51.960] Running Banshee 2.0.0: [Ubuntu Natty (development branch) (linux-gnu, i686) @ 2011-04-18 16:21:33 UTC]
[Info 14:52:54.435] Updating web proxy from GConf
[Info 14:52:54.525] All services are started 2,160097
** (Banshee:2567): DEBUG: SyncDaemon already running, initializing SyncdaemonDaemon object

(Banshee:2567): libsoup-WARNING **: No feature manager for feature of type 'U1RequestChrome'

** (Banshee:2567): WARNING **: Error rescanning Purchased Music: File o directory non esistente
** (Banshee:2567): DEBUG: Loading the real store page

** (Banshee:2567): WARNING **: Could not get credentials for 'Ubuntu One': Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/dbus/service.py", line 702, in _message_cb
    retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
TypeError: find_credentials() takes exactly 3 arguments (2 given)

[Info 14:52:56.163] nereid Client Started
[Info 14:52:56.328] GStreamer version 0.10.32.0, gapless: True, replaygain: False

[flameout (666maelstrom666)]

I've constantly had problems with cover art with Banshee.

The thing I've noticed, and more so in v2.0, is that if your album name is null or Unknown Album, you can't add cover art to it. I've had to change a lot of my non album songs to Unknown Album1 to see art.

This is really stupid because I, the user, should be able to use whatever name I want for the album, and still see whatever picture I want.

-- Running Ubuntu 11.04 64bit

[Jacopo Moronato (jmoronat)]

Yes, confirming flameout.
This strange behaviour prevents Banshee also from showing mp3 integrated cover arts, not only album arts.

[Bert Voegele (bertvoegele-deactivatedaccount)]

Still present in :

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: banshee 2.2.0+git20111026.r1.d30ff8d-0ubuntu1+oneiric
Architecture: i386

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

I'm a little curious here. Cover art usually refers to the artwork on the cover of the CD case of the album. If a song does not belong to an album, how can it have cover art?

[Jacopo Moronato (jmoronat)]

@hyperair

Lot of songs contain a picture directly related to the audio file.

[bitboy (zeus557)]

Still present in 2.6.2.