Global 'prefer file artwork' option

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Hi. Loving the Roon experience. This one is just a thought… for consideration.

I seem to spend a lot of my time (as I stumble across something with really bad artwork it just slaps me in the face) going through Edit > Artwork > Prefer File > Save. It might be nice to either have a quickie version (long press on the artwork - popup ‘Revert for file artwork’) or a global option to allow me to force my choice of artwork across my entire collection.

This could perhaps have a ‘use Roon artwork if there is no artwork’ bit built into it too.

A minor point for sure, but a bit of an irritant when I have sourced correct original LP art (or sometimes scanned CD covers) and Rovi / allmusic is feeding some unofficial reissue artwork. Big issue with older classical and jazz recordings.

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If I’m understanding you correctly, it’s already there:

Settings -> Library -> Import Settings -> Metadata preferences for albums -> Artwork

Personally, I like the “Prefer Best” option.

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That’s it - clearly I’m still getting to grips with the finer points here.

Thanks

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Not a problem. Roon has a lot of settings and features. I still come across useful things I hadn’t known about or had forgotten about. One of the great benefits of reading this forum.

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Well, that settings option does not seem to work for me (Mac Mini OSX 10.12.3). I have it set to “Prefer File” but it ignores the setting. If the Roon image is larger, it will always choose that one.

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I’m running Roon Server on Windows 10 with iPad Air as a control. Worked fine for me as @orgel described.

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I also have the issue not to bring the folder’s artwork fille named folder.jpg to the album in roon. I don’t know why, but somehow roon mixed up 3 albums (each in one dedicated folder and with clear unique dedicated album titles) … now I manually separated the albums but artwork is still not in a proper stage. Also rescanning and set metadata preference to file, adding dedicated artwork inside each flac-file, cleans library etc. didn’t work as a solution by now.

To avoid any misunderstanding: roon is a great tool - I’m totally convinced the team will fit the bug (if it’s really a bug - or perhaps it’s me sitting in front of the screen and keyboard)