Cover art priority

[Sallah_48 (David)]

Hi,

could you please advise the cover art priority: ie what is the order of priority for Roon to use a file as the main album cover from file?

eg is it cover.jpg>front.jpg>folder.jpg and so on? Is PNG format acceptable and used in priority over JPG or no preference, and so on…

I am currently using Folder.jpg in my source folder along with the music files and also in “art” subfolders but often this is overridden by other jpgs which have priority in the naming sequence, so it would be nice to know what the actual hierarchy is, so I start naming correctly to avoid unnecessary edits later.

I looked up ARTWORK in the knowledge base but I could not find what I am looking for there.

Cheers!

[Sallah_48 (David)]

Bump.

thanks in advance!

[mike (Mike Fass)]

I discussed the rules a little in this thread:

Folder.jpg not being used consistently

Hey @ezman – we took a look at the files you sent. As I mentioned, we give preference to art we believe is the front cover, and we select the highest resolution front cover file by default. In the files you sent, I see this: [image] We’re going to consider three pieces of art here to be potential front cover images: Buffalo-Front.jpg folder.jpg folder-noborder.jpg So, by default Roon is going to select Buffalo-Front.jpg since it’s the biggest front cover available, and since it’s bigger th…

We use the largest front cover image available, meaning any image associated with the album that’s includes cover, front, or folder.

I am currently using Folder.jpg in my source folder along with the music files and also in “art” subfolders but often this is overridden by other jpgs which have priority in the naming sequence, so it would be nice to know what the actual hierarchy is, so I start naming correctly to avoid unnecessary edits later.

Happy to look at some specific examples if you want to share details or upload any media to Dropbox. Hope that helps!

[Sallah_48 (David)]

thanks @mike

It’s clear, it’s the highest res file named or containing substrings"folder" “cover” or “front”. I can now work round it!

no need to upload stuff to you, i think.

Cheers!