Scan Album Art in Subdirectory

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From joe50261 on March 31, 2011 16:01:08

Clementine can scan album art in the same folder of the audio file now,it works very well,but I have some album arts saving in the subdirectory (ex: ./bk/cover.jpg,./scans/cover.jpg,./*/cover.jpg,...). Is it possible that Clementine can add this feature "Scan Album Art in Subdirectory"?

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/issues/detail?id=1676

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From keirangtp on March 31, 2011 12:36:29

scan one level deeper, two levels deeper? if we let it go into subfolders it might as well scan your whole hard drive (if the folder is near the root level).

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From joe50261 on March 31, 2011 12:39:07

one level is enough for me.

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From dedanna1029 on October 17, 2012 10:14:56

Actually, searching the whole drive may not be such a bad idea. Have it search the services first, then, start with the main directory, go two levels deeper, stop there.

I think this would be an excellent idea, for one reason, that being that sometimes an album has two cds that have been ripped in. Each cd is ripped in as a separate cd in the main album folder. The way I've suggested, it would find the album art (if it can't from the service) in the main folder of that cd, or in the sub-directories, either way.

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From dedanna1029 on October 17, 2012 10:15:22

I do think there should be a dialog box pop up if it needs to search the drive, asking if the user wants it to search it.

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From rdnetto on December 23, 2012 16:41:22

Simply modifying the preferred album art filenames option to work with subdirectories (e.g. a value of 'Scans/cover.jpg' or '../cover.jpg') would be sufficient for the majority of cases and avoid a lot of the performance issues associated with scanning multiple directories.

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From norak2@yahoo.com on February 13, 2013 01:55:21

I second that. Allow relative paths in addition of the file name of the cover. It would not break the current behavior and support plenty of other possibilities to organize the music library

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From strangeroflight on June 24, 2013 20:23:30

I could certainly use this. (#5 would work just fine)

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From john.maguire on June 25, 2013 20:02:05

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