Multiple artwork problems

[carloscs]

I'm trying to mantain some albums with multiple artwork images organised. Except for the front cover, I'm not embedding the other images in the tracks.

Problems found:

- when adding artwork, the "save to folder.jpg" checkbox is always checked and disabled.
- when editing artwork  the "save to folder.jpg" checkbox is always disabled unless I uncheck first the track which has it checked.
- the "link to an organised copy of the picture" text field is fixed to Cover.jpg.
- "link to an organised copy of the picture" is impenetrable. Took a long time until I got what it meant.
- "Save To" button suggests it should be used to save the image inside the track  to disk.
- (Nitpick) It's unusal for the delete button to be on top.
- No simple way to extract a image inside a track to the disk.

Fixes:
- the "save to folder.jpg" checkbox should always be enabled.
- when an image with "save to folder.jpg" checked is saved, remove the check from all the other images.
- unprotect the "link to an organised copy of the picture" textfield.
- auto fill the "link to an organised copy of the picture" textfield with the name of the selected image file or according to the selected picture type.
- rename "link to an organised..." to "link to picture in the same folder as the track (auto-organised)" or "link to picture next to (beside?) the track (auto-organised)".
- rename the "Save To" button to one of "Edit", "Manage", "Organise", "?".
- the "Save To"/Edit/Manage/... buton should be on top.
- add an option to the image popup menu  (and/or a button?) "Extract to disk..."

[Steven]

- when adding artwork, the "save to folder.jpg" checkbox is always checked and disabled.
- when editing artwork  the "save to folder.jpg" checkbox is always disabled unless I uncheck first the track which has it checked.

the way MB works is it checks to see if the selected track(s) dont already have a picture that refers to folder.jpg eg. if the second picture in a single file refers to folder.jpg and you edit the first picture, you will not be able to select folder.jpg.
However i dont know how you would get a situation where folder.jpg is checked and disabled - are you able to reproduce that, and if so, what are the other pictures linked to that file (or does it only happen when editing multiple files)?

[carloscs]

the way MB works is it checks to see if the selected track(s) dont already have a picture that refers to folder.jpg eg. if the second picture in a single file refers to folder.jpg and you edit the first picture, you will not be able to select folder.jpg.

Yes, saw that. I'm advocating for a change: unprotect and instead of checking before check after and if "save to folder.jpg" is selected clear it from other artwork having it set.

However i dont know how you would get a situation where folder.jpg is checked and disabled - are you able to reproduce that, and if so, what are the other pictures linked to that file (or does it only happen when editing multiple files)?

Was writing that I couldn't manage not to repeat it when I vaguely remembered a setting about folder.jpg...

This happpens when "Settings->Tags(1)->copy picture to folder.jpg" is checked. With this option unchecked the "save to folder.jpg" is unchecked (and protected) when adding more artwork.


One more request: drag and drop image to the image square works in the Tags tab but doesn't work in the Artwork tab.

[Steven]

i still cant reproduce the folder.jpg ticked and disabled.
i'll fix the drag/drop in the artwork tab.
for the other items i'm moving this to the wishlist as they are as i intended

[carloscs]

i still cant reproduce the folder.jpg ticked and disabled.

I'll see if I can get more steps...

for the other items i'm moving this to the wishlist as they are as i intended

Does this mean that it's not possible to have more than one link to images on disk (all links point to Cover.jpg) ?

[Steven]

when you drag a picture from the disc, or manually add using the Add button or right click/Choose Picture you should see an option
'link to the original picture file'

[carloscs]

But I don't want to link to the original file: this link stores the absolute path to the image and when the album is reorganised [rename the album name/artist] - the images this links point to remain in the original album folder.

I want links to organised images, but as the link is only to "Cover.jpg" I can have only one organised image.

[Steven]

thats the default. You can organise to:
<Artist> - <Title>.jpg
for example.

[carloscs]

In several albums I want organised links to [duplicated front sometimes], back, leaflet 1, leaftlet 2, ...

I must be more dim than usual on this matter, but right now I can't find my way to do that

[Steven]

i see, in that case its not currently supported as there isnt a way to specify the picture type in the filename

[ProgRocker]

I think I replicated this issue. When adding album art via "Right Click on Entire Album" >> Edit >> Artwork >> "Right Click Existing Album Art" the "Embed the picture in the music file" and "link to an organized copy of the picture" check boxes are unchecked by default.