Compilations or albums by "Various Artists" do not show cover art in the Now Playing view if none is embedded in the file

Bug #1409972 reported by Victor Thompson
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu Music App
Invalid
Medium
Unassigned
Unity Media Scanner Scope
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Currently, songs by "Various Artists" that have no embedded cover art do not show cover art in the following views:

Recent tab
Now Playing page
Playlists tab/Playlist's songs page

See attached screen shots of each view (and the Album's page, for reference--which is correct).

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Victor Thompson (vthompson) wrote :
Changed in music-app:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Victor Thompson (vthompson) wrote :
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Victor Thompson (vthompson) wrote :
description: updated
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Victor Thompson (vthompson) wrote :
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Victor Thompson (vthompson) wrote :

This also seems to affect the My Music scope.

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Victor Thompson (vthompson) wrote :
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Michi Henning (michihenning) wrote :

Songs tagged "Various Artists" *do* show album artwork, but only if 7digital can identify the artwork from the album name. I have seen numerous instances when testing where "Various Artists" works just fine (as well as instances where no artwork is available).

I suspect this is a non-bug; it simply depends on what 7digital can do.

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Michi Henning (michihenning) wrote :

I've attached an mp3 that has "Various Artists" as the artist tag. The remote server delivers album art for this just fine. It even shows artist art for an artist called "Various Artists" :-)

This works in both the music app and the music scope. Closing this as invalid.

Victor, if you still think there is problem here, please re-open and attach one or two of the offending songs, so we can have a look at the tags.

Changed in unity-scope-mediascanner:
status: New → Invalid
Changed in music-app:
status: Triaged → Invalid
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