Topic: Track Info view cover image uses old picture (Read 3677 times)

YogiPL · « **on:** October 07, 2021, 10:00:58 am »

Hi!

I have a weird problem with displaying cover art in Track Info view after playing a long playlist (say, a complete album).

If I start the application and pick files at random in quick succession it refreshes fine - displayed cover art changes correctly every time.

However if I play an entire album and after that select another one to play the cover image of the previous album is displayed.

I checked the Temp directory and in there the files change correctly, but the view in MediaCenter displays the old picture (it stays the same until I restart the program).

This is true no matter which TrackInfo view I use - mine is really simple to just display the picture with no borders, padding or any other text, but the default ones behave the same, track titles change, cover art stays the same.

I hope I'm explaining this clearly enough (english is not my first language, sorry).

YogiPL · « **Reply #1 on:** October 08, 2021, 06:53:57 am »

To better illustrate the problem, see attachments.

After restarting the application, correct cover is displayed.

YogiPL · « **Reply #2 on:** October 19, 2021, 02:46:51 am »

Any chance of a fix for this in some next release?
I can provide additional information, if more is needed to find the issue.

bob · « **Reply #3 on:** October 21, 2021, 03:14:38 pm »

I'll try to take a look at this soon, bump this thread if you don't hear back.

YogiPL · « **Reply #4 on:** November 04, 2021, 02:00:49 pm »

Bumping

Any news on this? Still having this problem on 28.0.80...

bob · « **Reply #5 on:** November 16, 2021, 12:33:34 pm »

Looking at this now. It seems to work fine for me in display view.
Does it only happen for you in the action window?

HaWi · « **Reply #6 on:** November 16, 2021, 02:14:25 pm »

I am having the same issue

HaWi · « **Reply #7 on:** November 16, 2021, 02:23:03 pm »

Looks to be solved in build 84

YogiPL · « **Reply #8 on:** November 18, 2021, 02:32:13 am »

Quote from: bob on November 16, 2021, 12:33:34 pm

Looking at this now. It seems to work fine for me in display view.
Does it only happen for you in the action window?

No, the same (old) image is displayed in the large Track Info view in the Player section (no matter which Track Info skin is used).
Will test with latest build...

YogiPL · « **Reply #9 on:** November 18, 2021, 03:29:24 am »

No, problem still exists.

I want to stress that this only happens after some tracks have been played.

In this example, I let the album play through in its entirety, stop by itself (so the cover view is cleared) and after that I picked another one to play - cover from previously played album was displayed instead of the current one (see attachment).

EDIT: after restarting MC correct cover is displayed.

HaWi · « **Reply #10 on:** November 18, 2021, 08:30:30 am »

Indeed, originally, it looked OK but then on playing more albums it does occur again that the track info doesn't update

bob · « **Reply #11 on:** November 18, 2021, 02:33:43 pm »

Quote from: HaWi on November 18, 2021, 08:30:30 am

Indeed, originally, it looked OK but then on playing more albums it does occur again that the track info doesn't update

Can you find an easy, repeatable way to show this? Otherwise it's going to be next to impossible to find.

YogiPL · « **Reply #12 on:** November 19, 2021, 02:37:38 am »

I'm guessing you're using some kind of HTML renderer engine to display the track info view? Maybe it has some options for handling cache?
Another guess - in my case I'm accessing these files from a network share, maybe if it doesn't manage to generate the temporary cover files in time it defaults to some previous image (again, cache - because files have the same name always?)

I don't know the internals of MC obviously - just throwing some ideas, hope you don't mind

HaWi · « **Reply #13 on:** November 20, 2021, 04:08:09 pm »

The way I could reproduce the issue was by selecting a smart playlist and starting to play it shuffled. The first track in the queue plays and the display is fine. Double clicking on any track in the list will play that song, the track info is correct but the album art is not.
EDIT: Even easier, just changing the Track Info style (by <Right Click>-Track Info) and selecting a different option a couple of times will mess up the Cover Art

YogiPL · « **Reply #14 on:** December 14, 2021, 08:47:40 am »

Bumping

Any news on this issue? I checked today with the latest build since there was a mention of a fix regarding switching to album art from track info but the problem persits, unfortunately.

bob · « **Reply #15 on:** December 14, 2021, 09:01:03 am »

I saw it today testing cover art.
It may have something to do with caching the web interface on Mac does.
There is also something odd about when it accesses some mime base64 encoded elements on local disk, whining about a certificate error which obviously it doesn't need.
References online seem to point to an obscure Mac bug.

HaWi · « **Reply #16 on:** December 14, 2021, 10:02:50 am »

Thanks for looking into this Bob. I am not sure for how long this has existed because I have only pretty recently started to use the Player screen more. If it is an Apple bug is there any way for us to report it to Apple?

bob · « **Reply #17 on:** December 14, 2021, 03:23:14 pm »

Quote from: HaWi on December 14, 2021, 10:02:50 am

Thanks for looking into this Bob. I am not sure for how long this has existed because I have only pretty recently started to use the Player screen more. If it is an Apple bug is there any way for us to report it to Apple?

I think we just need to figure a way to work around it.
Trackinfo is pretty new to the Mac builds. I think I added it sometime in MC27.

YogiPL · « **Reply #18 on:** February 12, 2022, 05:06:58 am »

I just got an email from jriver and I'm considering a preorder - any chance of this getting fixed in 29?

bob · « **Reply #19 on:** February 14, 2022, 09:29:33 am »

Quote from: YogiPL on February 12, 2022, 05:06:58 am

I just got an email from jriver and I'm considering a preorder - any chance of this getting fixed in 29?

We'll give it another look.

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