Artist Images In Artist Folder

Feature description

I keep my own artist images in the artist folder for every artist in my library. For example:

Artist Name
→ Album 1
→ Album 2
→ folder.jpg

I would love a setting, option, or automatic feature for Symfonium to use those images.

Problem solved

I’ve read into the ArtistInfo feature, but hosting a separate folder on my media server with duplicates of every artist image in my library just for Symfonium isn’t an ideal solution. I would be forced into duplicates, though, because I use several other music players across different devices which all work with my folder structure.

Brought benefits

Seamless, automatic retrieval of personally curated local artist images, for those of us who prefer to not use MusicBrainz and the like, in a sensible fashion (album images go in the album folder, artist images go in the artist folder).

Other application solutions

Something akin to foobar2000’s artist image search patterns would be excellent. By default, foobar looks for artist images in the album folder. The default search pattern looks like this, for example: “folder.*” Users can add custom search patterns, though, such as “..\folder.*” to indicate that it should also check the parent directory of the album folder.

Device type

Phone

Additional description and context

If, for whatever reason, it wouldn’t be possible to use the filename “folder.*”, I could easily change my other music players to look for a different filename. I searched the feature requests for a while looking for this same suggestion and didn’t turn up anything. I apologize if I missed something.

I searched existing feature requests

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ArtistInfo is the proper way to address this in a world with multiple artists per albums and track artists and name clash needing mbids, …

Could it not even be implemented as an optional feature? Multi-artist is a non-issue for me. I think ArtistInfo is an excellent feature, but it’s inelegant for my use-case. Aside from doubling the storage of my artist images, it would add unnecessary manual upkeep to my server.

Image sizes is a non issue … And you can ask any LLM to build a simple script to generate the artist info from your specific setup. You can even use symlinks for 0 size :wink: