https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quodlibet/+bug/930808

Getting this right would be nice, but also pose some difficulties:

1. What definition of album are we using (hopefully not freetext match like Filter On.. - see the infamous Issue 659)

2. How do we decide amongst multiple matches, e.g. songs in different directories that have their own folder.jpg? In addition to normal rules? Just find the first song that matches?..

3. Caching of this information (Running the album art selection algorithm is quite intensive already, but doing it each time for 20 tracks or more could become a problem

1. The Album object
2. Yeah, first song is enough, for the not embedded case I'd even say only in album.list("~dirname"), since most of the cover selection algo is part of the album key (in favor of performance)
3. For the not embedded case it's only once in the common case if we use ~dirname, for embedded case it is saved in ~picture, so also once.

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