Understanding cover art for audio files/folders
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2020 3:02 am
New owner of a Philips PUS7555/12 Smart TV with DLNA capability so have reached this forum as a result of discovering the UMS as a means to be able to access my music collection on my PC to play through the TV.
So far very impressed with the ease of installation of UMS and it working petty much "out of the box".
From what I can tell it seems to be using the Philips PUS TV.conf profile.
However I am puzzling over the display on the TV of the relevant cover art for the items in my collection.
I have some mp3 items that play without transcoding and will display the cover art.
However if I select to play an album which is in wav form, which should not need transcoding it plays OK but no
cover art is displayed on the TV.
Similarly if I select to play an item which is in .flac form (unsupported by the TV), UMS dutifully transcodes it so
it can be played, but again, no cover art is displayed.
Before I waste time trying to find out why I am getting cover art on only some selections, I'd like to confirm
whether the art should be displayed by the TV for all items played without transcode and additionally whether
transcoded tracks should also display the associated art.
I am really only focusing on audio tracks as I have very few video files on my server.
I am hoping someone on the forum can point me in the right direction to understand this a little better.
So far very impressed with the ease of installation of UMS and it working petty much "out of the box".
From what I can tell it seems to be using the Philips PUS TV.conf profile.
However I am puzzling over the display on the TV of the relevant cover art for the items in my collection.
I have some mp3 items that play without transcoding and will display the cover art.
However if I select to play an album which is in wav form, which should not need transcoding it plays OK but no
cover art is displayed on the TV.
Similarly if I select to play an item which is in .flac form (unsupported by the TV), UMS dutifully transcodes it so
it can be played, but again, no cover art is displayed.
Before I waste time trying to find out why I am getting cover art on only some selections, I'd like to confirm
whether the art should be displayed by the TV for all items played without transcode and additionally whether
transcoded tracks should also display the associated art.
I am really only focusing on audio tracks as I have very few video files on my server.
I am hoping someone on the forum can point me in the right direction to understand this a little better.