If a song does not have an album art, quality of displayed note image is very low

[Michal Predotka]

I have some songs/albums which don't have its own image to show when the song is being played. In that case there's a generic image visible. Problem is that image does not look very good. See screenshot attached.

[Andrew Hayzen (ahayzen)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

I believe this bug is infact from the thumbnailer which is providing the fallback image, as you can replicate the same behaviour from the local music scope (bug 1324142 should also be noted as the refers to providing custom fallback images).

[Michal Predotka (mpredotka)]

Although the source of this problem might be the thumbnailer, it clearly affects the Music app.

[Michi Henning (michihenning)]

The music app is not to blame here, it has no control over the fallback image.

We are in the process of removing fallback images from the thumbnailer (see bug #1324142). Fallback images should never have been part of the thumbnailer in the first place because the thumbnailer has no idea which application is talking to it, and the default image is application-specific. (A music note image is not appropriate for a missing video.)

The relevant changes are mostly in the thumbnailer already but are currently blocked on a few other changes that need to land before we can turn this off in the thumbnailer proper. Once that happens, applications and scopes can provide their own fallback image in whatever quality they like.

Marking this as a duplicate of bug #1324142.