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Title: Show artwork in parent folder
Post by: van Kuss on 2016-04-28 00:22:10

Hi guys.
Let's say I have this folder structure

- FOLDER A
- - FOLDER B
- - - Tracks.mp3

So, I want Foobar to take the artwork not from the Folder B, but from its parent folder, folder A. I have Artwork.jpg there.
The only workaround I see is to attach the image to every mp3s in those folders and I don't want to do that. There's another one and it's even worse: copy the Artwork.jpg in every folder.

So, is there a way to trick Foobar into doing this?

Thanks

Title: Re: Show artwork in parent folder
Post by: marc2003 on 2016-04-28 00:26:29

File>Preferences>Display>Album art>TYPE

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..\artwork.jpg

Title: Re: Show artwork in parent folder
Post by: TuNk77 on 2016-04-28 00:28:24

I use the following to display the cover in sub-folders:

folder.jpg
.\folder.jpg
..\folder.jpg
...\folder.jpg
....\folder.jpg

Just replace folder.jpg with Artwork.jpg

Title: Re: Show artwork in parent folder
Post by: marc2003 on 2016-04-28 00:37:37

^That's just plain wrong. First of all, a sub folder is contained within the same folder as the music file so you'd use

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sub folder\blah.jpg

And increasing the number of periods does nothing. If you want to go further up the folder structure, you'd use

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..\..\blah.jpg

Title: Re: Show artwork in parent folder
Post by: van Kuss on 2016-04-28 00:43:16

ahahaha
So I already tried that, the thing is, I tried it with the other slash ( / )
Thanks guys (is there a way to "overwrite" the artwork that is already in the mp3? I guess I need to delete every one)

Title: Re: Show artwork in parent folder
Post by: marc2003 on 2016-04-28 00:46:00

File>Preferences>Advanced>Display>Album art>Embedded art vs external>Prefer external

If you want to remove embedded art, foobar can do it from multiple tracks at once. Just select them all>right click>Tagging>Remove all pictures.

Title: Re: Show artwork in parent folder
Post by: van Kuss on 2016-04-28 01:07:51

Quote from: marc2003 on 2016-04-28 00:46:00

File>Preferences>Advanced>Display>Album art>Embedded art vs external>Prefer external

If you want to remove embedded art, foobar can do it from multiple tracks at once. Just select them all>right click>Tagging>Remove all pictures.

thanks so much, i love you marc i'll give you my babies next time i see you around

Title: Re: Show artwork in parent folder
Post by: TuNk77 on 2016-04-28 01:27:19

My folder structure is like this:
(http://i.imgur.com/xytyy2I.png)

If I enter

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sub folder\folder.jpg

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..\..\folder.jpg

foobar does not display any artwork.
If I enter

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..\folder.jpg

foobar displays the artwork.

Then explain to me why my

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..\folder.jpg

work but the code you posted does not work for me?

Title: Re: Show artwork in parent folder
Post by: Just_Addict on 2016-04-28 14:54:55

for ..\..\folder.jpg to work there obviously must be a folder.jpg existing in the grandparent folder. If there ain't one it won't do anything...

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