Manually refresh album covers

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XBMC Remote is downloading all the album covers nicely. I noticed that some
are missing or incorrect for my library so I updated them in my music
folder and updated the XBMC library.

Can XBMC Remote refresh these changed covers? While an automatic refresh
could be difficult it would be useful to have a periodic re-check of albums
with missing cover (e.g. once a day or something like that) and have a
context menu option to refresh the cover manually.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by codename...@gmail.com on 13 Oct 2009 at 12:10

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Ah, I think XBMC Remote will recheck them when it is completely restarted. 
Leaves the
issue of somehow refreshing changed covers.

Original comment by codename...@gmail.com on 13 Oct 2009 at 12:13

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Yeah non-available covers are rembered until the memcache is full or the app is 
restarted. Changed covers aren't even updated in the XBMC library AFAIK, unless 
you 
delete all thumbs and rescan everything. 

So I guess that makes the context menu obsolete. Better get your artwork right 
once and 
then scan everything.

You can force a complete reload by deleting the XBMC folder on your sdcard.

Original comment by phree...@gmail.com on 13 Oct 2009 at 10:58

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They are not updated automatically in XBMC but I can manually set them in XBMC 
to the
correct image. The context menu item would force XBMC Remote to reload the 
cover from
XBMC for that specific album.

The other approach I tried right now was copying the while xbmc folder from 
sdcard to
my PC, renaming all files to have a jpg extension and then browse through the
original folder with large enough thumbs to spot the cover I want to replace. 
Then I
searched in the Music folder (incl. subfolders) for the filename of the image 
and
removed them from the SD card. After restarting XBMC it loaded those images 
correctly
since they were no longer in the cache. This works but is a major pain to do. 
It is
ok if you only have to do it once but probably not doable by most non tech-savvy
users. Therefore I hope you will add the context menu item.

The complete reload by deleting the XBMC folder would work but takes a long 
time if
you have many albums.

Original comment by codename...@gmail.com on 13 Oct 2009 at 2:37

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Okay I'll figure out some way to too obtrusive. Not high on priority list 
though.

Original comment by phree...@gmail.com on 15 Oct 2009 at 7:50

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Original comment by phree...@gmail.com on 15 Oct 2009 at 7:50

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change title.

Original comment by phree...@gmail.com on 21 Oct 2009 at 2:50

• Changed title: Manually refresh album covers

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"XBMC Remote is downloading all the album covers nicely."

Nicely? Version 0.6.4 through 0.6.7 downloads them, displays them and then 
resizes 
them. That's not nice. (HTC Hero, Android 1.5)

Original comment by rks...@gmail.com on 19 Apr 2010 at 8:24

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I don't understand comment 7. Care to elaborate?

Original comment by phree...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2010 at 8:09

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Original comment by phree...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2010 at 8:15

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I think this bug is more about adding an method to manually select a TV show 
(or season), movie, or Music Album and request that the thumbnail be removed 
and downloaded again... This is useful for when a image is downloaded and is 
not correctly resized.

Original comment by kphilli...@gmail.com on 15 Jul 2010 at 3:37

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Naz. the prince @gmail.com

Original comment by naz.thep...@gmail.com on 25 Sep 2014 at 9:12