I've been setting up Amarok to work properly in my Desktop, but found out that its cover manager only looks for the covers of albums your mp3 tags explicitly have. I mean, it doesn't search for covers of albums that may be guessed (like FoxyTunes does) by having Artist + Title. I don't know if this is a misconfiguration or just a missing feature. I would like to know if, perhaps, there's an Amarok script that can be added in order to get this functionality. Thanks!

Hmm, I'm not sure I really understand the problem. The only time I've seen Amarok has fail to find a cover was when amazon didn't have it. Check kde-apps.org selection of scripts for what you're looking for: http://kde-apps.org/index.php?xcontentmode=56

I've checked that and didn't found what I am looking for . Hmmm, what I didn't say in my original post is that all my mp3 have their "Album" tag blank... so, the Cover Manager doesn't look for their covers. What I want is Amarok to guess what Album is that mp3 from (exactly like FoxyTunes does, it searches the Album + Cover just by knowing the Artist and the Title tags). I'm beginning to think this is just a missing feature, but it's really strange that nobody else is complaining about this... does everyone have the Album tag fulfilled in their whole mp3 collection?

I have this same problem except for the fact that I cant get anything. When I pull up the cover manager and hit "fetch missing covers" (or whatever) it will search for all the covers of my albums but it doesnt find any, not 1. I rember whan I first started with linux about 2 yrs ago I was using slackware 10.2 and it worked fine, now im using PCLinuxOS (It's awsome try it you'll like it, there working on a new release) with Amarok v1.4.4 with KDE v3.5.5 and it just doesnt work. Did amazom change a URL or something? I've been searching my computer for a file to edit or something but it's know where to be found. I know it's not a script it's built in to Amarok.
Any ideas??? Please??? I also did a google search and still nothing.

Hmmm, does your mp3 collection have the album id3 tag fulfilled? In my case, the only album covers that are searched for are the ones that are in the id3 album tag of my files. No searching for artist + title

Well theres a "view" menu at the top of the cover manager, just click on
"Albums without cover" and then "fetch missing covers".
When I do this, all the albums I have without covers, pop up in the window I it searches for the covers (484 of them) it dosn't find 1. I dont know what to do, I even removed amarok and deleted all confg files left behind and reinstalled. Still doesn't work. I checked the website and http://www.amazon.com/ and theres no info. Unless I missed something?

I got mine to work. I went in to "KDE control center/webbrowsing/cache" and clicked on "Use cache whenever possible" and bam now it works hope it works for you.

The problem in my case is that my mp3 have their Album tag blank, so Amarok doesn't know what cover to fetch.

Anyway, I recompiled Amarok with support for musicbrainz and now I can go one by one fetching the Album tag for every single mp3 file, so that the Cover Manager shows them up and I can fetch that covers.

It would be very nice if Amarok did this by itself, by looking in musicbrainz for the Album tag for each song 'on the fly' (while playing, like FoxyTunes --yes, again! :P) to show its cover without having to fill each Album tag before

I have just used the cover manager to fetch for my entire mp3 collection, and it got 95% of the covers right, its very well implemented.

There is only one thing i dont like, by default the covers are saved in and are given all hexadecimal characters filenames that dont show you a clue as to which is which.

Do any of you guys know if there is a way to change this way of archiving? I would love it to save the covers with legible filenames *and* to save each file in the directory there the album mp3 files are.

Any hints will be appreciated/.

I think you could do that with an Amarok script called "CopyCover". It copies the covers in your collection to each song's directory, using the name format you tell it to. To get it, just click on

Tools -> Script Manager -> Get More Scripts -> Most Downloads

and search for it there, right now it's the first.



Tell me, did that 95% of your mp3 collection already have the "Album tag" (id3) set?

Thanks for the pointer, ill try the script.

And yes, i had gone thru the boresome process of cleaning up my tags, including proper Album and Genre information; it was boring but now that its done i believe it was worth it.

I'll be doing that someday now... thanks! Hope the script works for you.