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album art w/o tags?

Hello all,

I've generally always had my images saved as a tag to the file, but to save size, I've separated them.  currently, I have the images saved in the folder with the album music itself (formatted %artist%-%year%-%album%.extension), in some cases with a couple extra image files (for singles or alternate covers).  I can't figure out how to get foobar to use this for the cover art, any help?

album art w/o tags?

Reply #1 –
File/Preferences/Display/Album art:
Code: [Select]
%artist%-%year%-%album%.*

You might need full paths, in which case you can try:
Code: [Select]
$directory_path(%path%)\%artist%-%year%-%album%.*

There's a good chance that if any of the tags contain characters that are invalid as filenames you might run into trouble, so you can also try a catch all pattern:
Code: [Select]
$directory_path(%path%)\*.*

You can input multiple patterns in the fields.

album art w/o tags?

Reply #2 –
Quote from: Daeron on
File/Preferences/Display/Album art:
Code: [Select]
%artist%-%year%-%album%.*

You might need full paths, in which case you can try:
Code: [Select]
$directory_path(%path%)\%artist%-%year%-%album%.*

There's a good chance that if any of the tags contain characters that are invalid as filenames you might run into trouble, so you can also try a catch all pattern:
Code: [Select]
$directory_path(%path%)\*.*

You can input multiple patterns in the fields.

sorry I haven't used this feature at all before, would nyou mind giving a little more detailed instructions please? thanks!

edit:
specifically, I have "%artist%-%year%-%album%.*" (minus quotes) already typed in the field.  what exactly should I write for the directory path?  I don't know what the markup you wrote meant.  my music is in this directory:
E:\Music\FLAC
with a folder for each album, that is as follows:
E:\Music\FLAC\%albumartist% - %album% (%year%)
 

album art w/o tags?

Reply #3 –
Quote from: will279 on
Quote from: Daeron on
File/Preferences/Display/Album art:
Code: [Select]
%artist%-%year%-%album%.*

You might need full paths, in which case you can try:
Code: [Select]
$directory_path(%path%)\%artist%-%year%-%album%.*

There's a good chance that if any of the tags contain characters that are invalid as filenames you might run into trouble, so you can also try a catch all pattern:
Code: [Select]
$directory_path(%path%)\*.*

You can input multiple patterns in the fields.

sorry I haven't used this feature at all before, would nyou mind giving a little more detailed instructions please? thanks!

edit:
specifically, I have "%artist%-%year%-%album%.*" (minus quotes) already typed in the field.  what exactly should I write for the directory path?  I don't know what the markup you wrote meant.  my music is in this directory:
E:\Music\FLAC
with a folder for each album, that is as follows:
E:\Music\FLAC\%albumartist% - %album% (%year%)

nevermind, I figured out the scheme, thank you very much