I have a bunch of mp3 files added in xnoise library.

Some of the files have tags with cover art embedded. In addition the covers are in same folder as the files.

What is the expected output?

The cover art should be loaded in browser and toolbar/menu (don't know how to call it) as shown in main page of xnoise.

What do you see instead?

None of covers are shown. Not even if lastfm plug in is activated. Its possible that some of them doesn't have cover in lastfm

What version of xnoise are you using? Release or mercurial repo version?

I'm using latest version from Ubuntu ppa.

Are there generally no album cover images or are there just a few missing?

The lastfm plugin will download a album cover image from lastfm if the plugin is activated, the track is currently playing, there are tags for artist and album available and the album cover has not been downloaded before. All conditions have to be fullfilled.

The album images are in ~/.config/xnoise/album_images

Atm, xnoise is not using embedded images.

What are artist and album name of the track? Some naming schemes work badly with the lastfm api.

I have

Black Eyed Peas - Elephunk; Monkey Bussiness and The End João Pedro Pais - Outra vez

This I know tahet exists in last fm. Other albuns mybe not.

But instead of having Black Eyed Peas I have The Black Eyed Peas. Maybe could this be the problem? I will try without "The".

But João Pedro Pais is right.

Adding the possibility of using cover embedded in tags could be a future development?

Still no deal without "The" in artist name

I don't understand. Are there generally no album cover images or are there just a few missing?

None of my albums show covers. The examples listed are albums that exist in lastfm and covers are not shown. The other albums in library could be missing in lastfm. I didnt check them all.

Can you start xnoise from termainal with xnoise -p and post the output here?

Here´s my output

xnoise -p PLUGIN INFO: soundmenu2 loaded soundmenu2 NOT activated

DatabaseLyrics loaded
DatabaseLyrics activated

mpris loaded
mpris NOT activated

notifications loaded
notifications activated

Lyricwiki loaded
Lyricwiki activated

TitleToDecoration loaded
TitleToDecoration activated

Chartlyrics loaded
Chartlyrics activated

CyclicSaveState loaded
CyclicSaveState activated

LastfmCovers loaded
LastfmCovers activated

mediakeys loaded
mediakeys NOT activated

Test loaded
Test NOT activated

Hmm. This looks fine so far. Right now, I don't have an idea what this could be. I'll think about some useful debug outputs.

What do you see in ~/.config/xnoise/ and ~/.config/xnoise/album_images ? Is there anything?

Heres my xnoise folder

Maybe it is an encoding problem. Will look further on this later.

Same issue except that there is nothing in my ~/.config/xnoise/ directory except for the file xnoise.ini

data is no longer in ~/.config/xnoise/ but now in XDG_DATA_DIR which is usually in ~/.local/share/xnoise

this seems to work now. Please reopen this bug on github, if there are still issues