Music Art - Folder and Backdrop

[twochannel]

Hello,

For Mezzmo 5.0.5.0

filesystem structure:

Music
 |-A
   |-Artist
      |-folder.jpg  (artist/band art)
      |-Album 
           |-folder.jpg (album art)

I'm trying to understand where mezzmo will get the art for the following:

a)Backdrops (Album artist and Album). (I know of the 'get backdrop' check box but I'm not sure which particular file(s) it can use (and the order)
b)Album artist art work. It appears it's just using the first album's folder art and not using the folder.jpg I have placed in the root of the artist's folder

I'm familiar with the metadata retrieval screen and where Mezzmo will look to get art for Music and Folders/Playlists but I can't seem to get the intended result. I have turned off the internet based metatdata sources for Music and Folders.

As a bonus question - is there a way to have mezzmo not use the album coverart for each track in the album and instead use a generic place holder?


Thanks!

[Peter]

Hi,
for folder artwork Mezzmo will try to get the poster and backdrop from the first file in the folder. If you have the box checked in Metadata Retrieval Settings to use folder.jpg then Mezzmo will try to find the folder.jpg file when setting the poster for the folder.

[twochannel]

Thanks Peter!

Ok, from my previous layout and having folder.jpg selected in the metadata settings, I should expect "|-folder.jpg (artist/band art)" to be the folder art and backdrop art for the artist level folder? (in my album artist active playlist view with a hierarchy of artist and then album)

(is it the music metadata or folder/playlist metadata tab for this folder level art?)

[Peter]

Yes that is correct, the folder.jpg if it exists will be used for both the poster and backdrop.

[twochannel]

Ok, thank you for confirming. That is not what I'm seeing, let me do a little more testing to confirm my results.

[twochannel]

I think I see what is happening.

The top-level folder I added to Mezzmo that contains all my music has the expected behavior. The artist folder is the folder.jpg at the artist level of the directory and uses the same image for the backdrop. The individual album's art is correct (album level folder.jpg)and the backdrop for those albums is the same folder.jpg

However, the album artist active playlist does not. It uses the first album's art for the artist art. The album art is correct, it's just that artist level art that is not.