why does coverart show for some directories but not for others?

[CoenP]

Hi

In a quest to make better use of the potentially powerfull XX filefunctionality, I am trying to get a grasp on music directories, galleries and coverart.

Besides the fact that I am still in the utter confusion stage of figuring out how to get this operational, I noticed that the coverart is shown in the middle pane for some directories in my music root, but not for others. Actually the coverart of only the first album is shown in that case. This seems weird because the files and subdirectories within those those are very similar. FYI these are my real music directories.

The not so nice part is that I am now unable to search my entire music root or browse through all coverart, yet only the albums of the directories that XX shows.

Am I missing something important here?

So far, after a lot of reading and experimenting, I managed to create a galley a stuff two albums in there. It was a hassle, obviously I am not doing it the way it is intended.
Not shure what to do next, put x000 albums one by one in one or more galleries and make the gallery directory my music root?
Does anyone have an very, very, very simple instruction for this?

Thanks,

regards, Coen

[PeterSt]

Hey Coen,

There is nothing much to it, so the only thing what can be going on is that you have a mess in your folder structure. The actually only motto is : make it logical so that your own eyes can not be confused, then XXHE understands it too. For example, putting two albums in the same folder is the opposite of this. But you knew that.
Otherwise this post may get you going : http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=2012.msg20902#msg20902

In addition (but this is more extended), you can try to read this topic too : Problems with Gallery creation.

I hope this gets you going a bit.
Peter

PS: Take care that no "coverart" or anything is accedentally there at a higher level. That too will mess up and is a typicle reason for only a first album showing (that wrong) Coverart.

PPS: Nothing is "one by one" because you can select ranges (or everything) in the Library Area.

[CoenP]

Hi Peter,

Thanks.

It is solved now! The coverart issue was related to single files being in the main directory. As soon as I moved these to a seperate directory the coverart appeared .

The galleries look very promising, but I do not understand how to access them after I created and filled them. Maybe I am hindsighted but I could not find a 'show galleries'  button or something like that in the xx interfaces (no rightclicks either)....

Regards, Coen

[PeterSt]

Just select them as how you would select an "Original Location" music folder sructure. That's all.

You can do everything with them the same as with original files. Including dragging them onto the Playlist Area etc.

Have fun,
Peter


PS: Careful a bit with "changing" things in the Gallery Context. Many things via XXHE work, but many do not. 0.9z-7 has solved a lot of that ...