Cantata MPD client - can't find cover art - Auraliti PK100

[GmanNA]

Asking for some help from the collective...

I've just set up a PK100, and am using a windows laptop to control with the Cantata client.

I can't seem to get Cantata MPD client to configure to find my cover art.

 

My setup is an external USB harddrive connected to the Auraliti PK100, and I've got a dedicated wireless router for access to the PK100.

 

On the external drive, the music is in a folder: Music/FLAC/<artist name>/<album>/<tracks>

Within each album folder, along with the flac music files, is a Folder.jpg image which is the cover art.

 

Cantata can find and play all the music no problem. But I can't configure to see cover art. (Not the end of the world, hearing the music is 95%, but would be nice when browsing....)

 

Can anyone describe how I am supposed to setup Cantata that it will display cover art as found in each FLAC music folder on my hard drive that is connected to the MPD server on the PK100? I have gone to the configure tap, and gone to the files and specified Folder as the cover art name. Doesn't work.

 

(Note: I don't use bonjour, but I configure Cantata to see the PK100 by specifying the IP address, which I fixed on my network as the PK100 is the only device on this local wireless network. i.e. 192.168.1.109)

 

Thank you in advance.

[DMM]

In Cantata settings> Connection> Music Folder

Choose the folder in which the music (and the covers) is located. You must specify the path to the device and the Music folder. You can use the button with the icon of a folder for it.

 

 

I do not use Cantata, but may only accept names like cover.jpg (take the test) If so you should rename the covers

 

Sorry for my english

[TopQuark]

I'm having the same problem on the Windows version. It cannot find the album art cover.jpg anywhere you place it in the directories.

 

It is a good client for Windows if this and the search feature is fixed.

[hifi25nl]

Personally I have all the album art covers.

 

Remember that you must have write permissions as user to your music folder, because Cantata will write automatically the cover images to that folder. The folder in the remote system must have write permissions for both "owner" AND "group".

[TopQuark]

Took me a while. What happened was my cover.jpg files are in a subdirectory below the music files so it was not able to grab them. Also, although the default mpd music_directory works to play the songs, I found out that, for the album art to show, it has to be changed to the value what is in your fstab. In my case, it is /media/music. My set-up is using samba/cifs on a zfs file server.