I’m using a Roon Nucleus. All firmware and software are up to date.
I receive a lot of pre-release music, usually in the form of files, often but not always .wav. Usually a cover image is included. Because it’s pre-release, Roon can’t recognize the album. Usually I just make sure images (including the cover image) are included in the folder with the music and the cover art shows up, but it doesn’t always work. I’m providing one example here, below.
Recently I found an old post suggesting that cover art should instead be in a separate folder called “artwork” alongside the tracks, so I tried that, too: No dice.
Here’s an image of the nested music folders (you’ll see that there are several images; the front-cover image is the largest):
Your screenshot shows four images, so Roon is seeing these and should display them (click text to view). To get the album cover to show, just renaming the one for ‘…FRONT.jpg’ to Folder.jpg should enable Roon to use it as the album cover automatically.
I considered this but rejected it. It provides a solution, but sort of an unsatisfactory one, in one respect: The art is already in the folder, but using this approach doesn’t allow me to select it from there. What I want to do is point to the art inside the file, and I couldn’t do that. So, fine, but I didn’t like that solution much.
? I don’t read it that way, and I’m sure that somewhere I saw a note that said that it chooses the largest image (proxy for higher quality?). In this case, the largest image is the front-cover image.
I was so sure this would work (and the earlier suggestion from Tony Bates) that I was ready to mark it as the solution without trying it first. But I went ahead and tried it (This is a screenshot from the NAS):
Weird, right? Still doesn’t show up for the first. So I thought I’d get heavy-handed and try calling the cover “FRONT_COVER.jpg”. I even tried changing .jpg to jpeg, since that’s how it was done in the second case. Forced rescan again. But none of this worked.