No album art displayed

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Start VLC player with the following command: vlc --extraintf=http --
fullscreen --http-album-art --qt-start-minimized

2. Play a music file (from the computer)

3. Play a music file (from the android app)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The app plays the song fine (allowing complete control), but no album art 
is displayed.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Ubuntu 9.04, 
Android Cupcake, 
Android-VLC-remote 0.2.0

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by abhiroopb241088@gmail.com on 2 Sep 2009 at 4:12

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You might need to enable album art downloads in the VLC settings.

Original comment by mr.bald...@gmail.com on 2 Sep 2009 at 12:53

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I "think" I have. Its under Interface in the preferences option right?

Original comment by abhiroopb241088@gmail.com on 2 Sep 2009 at 1:25

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Yeah, I have mine set to "As soon as track is added".

The VLC implementation is pretty flakey, so it might not work perfectly.  
Sometimes
it grabs the wrong art, sometimes the request hangs, and sometimes it doesn't 
find
anything.  The only time I've seen it work consistently well is with XSPF 
playlists
that specify URL of the art.

Original comment by mr.bald...@gmail.com on 2 Sep 2009 at 2:27

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Thanks for the response. It did briefly appear, so it makes sense that it is 
not 
working perfectly.

I suggest you make a note of it, because I was playing around with it for a 
while. Its 
not a big deal to me, but, I thought it was something I was doing wrong so I 
was trying 
to fix it.

Thanks for the amazing app!

Original comment by abhiroopb241088@gmail.com on 2 Sep 2009 at 2:31

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This is probably a VLC server bug. I cannot reproduce with
http://www.jamendo.com/get2/stream/track/xspf/?album_id=48477&order=numalbum_asc
 on
VLC 1.0.2

Original comment by mr.bald...@gmail.com on 29 Sep 2009 at 2:57

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I can't get album art for non-XSPF playlists working with 1.0.2.  I think there 
is a
new web interface in the works, so maybe it will provide a working URL to get 
album art.

Original comment by mr.bald...@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2009 at 4:32

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It looks like this feature has been broken for a while:
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2881

Original comment by mr.bald...@gmail.com on 6 Apr 2010 at 2:24

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That is annoying!

I am on windows 7 now and have generally stopped using VLC for music (using 
mediamonkey) instead.

For movies can the album art show something else? Right now it is a big grey 
ugly box!

Original comment by basu.abh...@gmail.com on 6 Apr 2010 at 2:28

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Hopefully it will be fixed upstream before too long.  There is another feature 
request to use this area for 
streaming video.  I was thinking of cramming the space with more buttons, but 
it would be nice to put 
something more interesting there...

Original comment by mr.bald...@gmail.com on 6 Apr 2010 at 12:34

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Issue 70 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by mr.bald...@gmail.com on 11 Jun 2011 at 3:50

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This app is terrific!  Jesus would appear himself if the album art actually 
worked as well!

Original comment by ericsa...@gmail.com on 25 Dec 2011 at 7:01

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Issue 128 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by mr.bald...@gmail.com on 31 Dec 2011 at 8:49

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Original comment by mr.bald...@gmail.com on 29 Sep 2013 at 8:30

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