Feature request: Add support for embedded covers

[null]

1.03 doesn't seem to support embedded album art, that is, mp3s that have the album art embedded in the file itself. Case in point: I purchased an album (http://www.amazon.com/Eden-Collection-Global-Chill/dp/B000XU77DU/) awhile ago, and it features the same pretty picture embedded in each file. Previous versions of Decibel were able to load the images, but now they can't.

I'm not sure if it's related to the new Imaging library dependency, or if something else in the handling code changed. I have an older version of Decibel installed in parallel, v1.00, and it doesn't work either. It may be Python, it may be the Imaging library is interfering, or it may be something else entirely. :)

Album art only appears if it's a separate image in the album folder.

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Here's what I see in the logfile:

[100302190203] INFO [Command Line Support] Restored playlist
[100302190214] ERROR [Covers] Received malformed data

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<lfm status="ok">
<album>
    <name>Eden - A Collection Of Global Chill</name>
    <artist>Niyaz</artist>
    <id>21080066</id>
    <mbid></mbid>
    <url>http://www.last.fm/music/Niyaz/Eden+-+A+Collection+Of+Global+Chill</url>
    <releasedate> </releasedate>
    <image size="small"></image>
    <image size="medium"></image>
    <image size="large"></image>
    <image size="extralarge"></image>
        <listeners>27</listeners>
    <playcount>110</playcount>
        <toptags>
      </toptags>
   </album></lfm>

[100302190436] ERROR [Covers] No known cover for midival punditz / eden - a collection of global chill

[Anonym25712 (anonym25712)]

Hi,

DAP never featured this. Covers are either loaded locally, from the hard drive, or downloaded from the Internet. Loading embedded covers is interesting though, and may be part of a future version.

[null (nightmorph-deactivatedaccount)]

Really? Huh. I could be crazy. It's possible. :)

Maybe I'm totally confused, and it was some other audio player I was trying at the time, like Consonance or Gejengel, or something. I sample other players every now and then, but I keep coming back to Decibel.

Anyway, yeah, if it's never supported it before, then . . . feature request! :D

[null (nightmorph-deactivatedaccount)]

You sure it doesn't work automagically? I have a screenshot of Decibel 1.03 in action, with a just-downloaded free track ("At Last") that has embedded art:

http://dev.gentoo.org/~nightmorph/misc/20100303-albumart.png

I checked my downloaded covers cache, and the album art isn't in there.

~/.config/decibel-audio-player/Covers $ grep -ir last .
./6832584819348452967/INDEX:S'he-luxelastic ep'
./4468652977449191689/INDEX:sVtrans-siberian orchestrabeethoven's last night

Audio Tag Tool confirms that the pic is indeed embedded in the file. So unless Decibel is misbehaving by fetching but not saving the art . . .

Embedded art seems to work for one track, and not for another. What's going on? :)