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Erland Sommarskog
Enthusiast II
November 18, 2021

Sonos no longer recognizing folder.jpg for cover art?

  • November 18, 2021
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After the most recent upgrade to Sonos 13.4 (S2), I don’t see much cover art in the Sonos controller. More precisely, it seems that I see cover art if it is embedded into the MP3 file, but not if the cover art in a separate file called folder.jpg. In my collection, most albums have a folder.jpg, and only a minority of albums have embedded cover art. There are two reasons for this:

  • Albums that originally had on CD, cassette or vinyl.
  • For several years, Sonos was not able to display cover art that was embedded into the MP3 files that I bought, so I had to extract them to folder.jpg and remove them from the MP3 file.

Is any one else seeing this? Or is this just some accident on my system?

 

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    florismk
    Enthusiast I
    April 19, 2022

    Problem solved with the latest update version 14.6

    Looks like it's much, much less erratic in this version.

    Came here to post that I had a one-time succes in 14.4, album art loading like lightning while scrolling through the album art, only to disappear again upon scrolling back up.

    In 14.4, scrolling down loads almost all artwork, and scrolling back up does so as well.

    Some albums still get skipped, and I don’t think it was a sensible design choice to load the entire list of album art when I rapidly scroll several screens down (why not load only the artwork needed in the visible bit of the list?). And they're still not caching album art, but reloading. And in the little play bar, album art doesn't load at all, even when I expand it, click through to the track list, and allow the art work to load for all tracks. (Oddly enough, when I return to the album list and scroll dozens of screens up to see the album that's currently in the playlist, the album art for that album alone does display, even as I wait tens of seconds for the other artwork to show up--that's loading from the bottom.)

    Who knows, maybe they got it licked?

    B33Jay
    Enthusiast II
    April 26, 2022

    Yep, 

    Haven't posted since just after 14.4. 14.6 by comparison seems much better for Android when it comes to owns canned album art. Spotify etc was never an issue.

    A better experience all together. 

    Just for info... I set scanner to scan just slightly larger than booklet and 800 dpi. Then use MS Paint to crop square and reduce pixels to 600 x 600 which gives me final image anything. between 200 - 300 kb. Good for ipad and Android phone which is what mainly use. Looks as sharp as Spotify images to my eyes. 

     

    davidklayer
    Lyricist I
    July 12, 2022

    I unplugged all players. (But not the router, that makes no sense). I plugged them in again. I updated the music index. No change. Still no cover pixel art for albums where there is a single folder.jpg in the folder (as stated in the article buzz linked to).

    So it seems like Sonos broke something. These are my zones:

    A: 2 Play3 + 1 Sub (Gen one). One of the Play3 is connected with network cable to the router.

    B: Port.

    C: Two Sonos Five

    D: Two Sonos One SL

    E: Two Play1.

     

     

     

    Thank you

    B33Jay
    Enthusiast II
    July 12, 2022

    Have you tried restarting NAS (I know many of us have them on constantly).

    I have found that re-indexing Sonos Music Library via app sometimes is ineffective, if my QNAP hasn't had an update and consequent re-boot for a while…

     

    PaulJones
    Trending Lyricist I
    September 1, 2022

    It's a bug in the Sonos app, which I would be very happy to see fixed.

    stoutlyric
    Trending Lyricist I
    July 17, 2023

    There is another thread here where I have the same issues and I referenced this thread.  Does anyone have any updates on this long standing bug for users that use a NAS and have a local music library?

    Artwork Now Playing Not Updating in App, S1 Works, S2 Doesn't

     

    Thanks

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