Album art indexing priority

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(16-09-2013 23:04)simoncn Wrote:  The reason why folder.* has the highest priority is that many other music servers use Folder.jpg for cover art and many users have created their libraries with their preferred cover art files named as Folder.jpg.

I think that the popularity of 'Folder.jpg' is the reason to assign it to a lower priority. This would make it possible to use high resolution album art for MinimServer (cover.jpg) while not interfering with other libraries which force 'Folder.jpg', e.g. the one from WMP. At the same time it wouldn't cause problems for users who use just 'Folder.jpg'.

Quote:Is it possible to prevent WMP from doing this by adjusting its settings? If so, this seems like the best solution.

Yes, ist is possible and I've already done it. So it isn't a problem for me, but it may be for other users. As soon as one starts WMP it will start saving the 'Folder.jpg' files for any album which doesn't have embedded album art or an existing 'Folder.jpg' file.

I would appreciate any comment from other users how they handle and store the album art. Previously I've put embedded album art in every file, but now I want to remove as much redundancy as possible from my library. So I've decided to store just one image file in each album directory. This also has the advantage that it is much easier to edit or exchange the album art. The '<albumname>.jpg' sounds promising, but it will cause problems as soon as <albumname> contains special characters which are not allowed in the file system in use. So I ended up with using one 'cover.jpg' file for each album.
How do other users handle this? Is there a best practice to handle album art?