Request to put the cached album art in a separate folder

[farshed]

This is not an issue, just a feature request. The cached album art is stored in the open inside storage. It would be a better UX if it was stored inside a folder with a .nomedia file so it wouldn't show up in the gallery or other apps that scan media.

[Drazail]

@eff-society You can pass a custom path to RNAndroidAudioStore. ( Only works on Android)

[farshed]

Thank you for responding so quick @Drazail. I just saw in the docs that RNAndroidStore.getAll() method now returns album covers but at the cost of performance.

• Is the performance same as MusicFiles.getAll() or better?

• Also, do I have to be fetching media with RNAndroidStore to make use of the coverFolder property or does this work with MusicFiles as well?

[Drazail]

@eff-society

• performance should be marginally better than MusicFiles.getAll (opening streams and writing into files will introduce some performance hit, even though they are being done on a separate thread).

• yes, you will have to use RNAndroidAudioStore, the two are completely separate entities (due to legacy support).

as a side note, the version we are using internally does include sorting and pagination. its testing is almost done, and I will hopefully push these new features into this repo soon ( .nomedia idea is an interesting one as well, will try to add it as an option in the same release). meanwhile you can use delay and batchNumber parameters on RNAndroidAudioStore.getAll ( and listening to events using DeviceEventEmitter )to minimize the performance hit.

[DNA-h]

The problem is android side is that all the images are added to the user's gallery, so cover folder and .nomedia file make sense.