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Artwork Priorities

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GMMP will look for artwork in various different locations.  This page shows the order searched.

Album Art

  1. Folder the music files are located in.  Filenames with an image extension are looked for in the folder in this order: front, cover, folder, any other image.  (IE: folder.png)
  2. Embedded artwork.  Each file in an album is searched for embedded art and the first one is used
  3. GMMP's image cache.  Typically /storage/gmmp/albumart is searched.  This only contains previously do downloaded art
  4. Online.  Various online album art apis are used to find album art
Note: Embedded art can be given the highest priority by enabling it in the settings.  Advanced artwork settings -> Prefer embedded art

Artist Art

  1. The parent folder of the music files location will be searched if it contains the artist's name in the foldername.  Image files are searched for in this order actual_artistname, artist, folder, any other image.  IE: (/Music/311/311.png and music file is located in /Music/311/Grassroots/song.mp3)
  2. The older of the music files location will be searched if it contains the artist's name in the foldername.  Image files are searched for in this order actual_artistname, artist, folder, any other image.  IE: (/Music/311/311.png and music file is located in /Music/311/song.mp3)
  3. GMMP's image cache.  Typically /storage/gmmp/artistart is searched.  This only contains previously do downloaded art
  4. Online.  Various online album art apis are used to find artist art
  5. [Manual scan only.. will be fixed in the future]  Album art associated with the artist is chosen

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